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The Olmecs (1500 B.C. to 100 B.C.+) were the first people known to process and eat cacao beans, which they called kakaw.

Seventy percent of the world's cocoa supply originates in West Africa, though the region's largest producers of the commodity, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, have thus far not experienced an outbreak of the Ebola virus.

If weather and diseases concerns weren’t enough for the upcoming cocoa bean harvest in the Ivory Coast, then the Ebola epidemic surely provides a real what-if fear — one that’s sending the price of cocoa beans soaring.

Chocolatiers and buyers from more than a dozen countires were in attendence.

The Hershey Co. has launched a new three-year program expanding its cocoa farmer training and community initiatives in Ivory Coast.

Cargill has agreed to purchase Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM)'s global chocolate business for $440 million.

How often have we heard that so many cocoa farmers never get to taste the very “food of the gods” that they grow?

Both the world cocoa market and the world chocolate market are expected to grow in the next five years.

True to its plan, ADM confirmed that it will sell its chocolate business, most likely by the end of the third quarter.