The sweet baskets of Easter will likely take a bitter toll on consumers this year as the price of cocoa rises to record levels. Cocoa futures have soared this year, nearly doubling since early 2024. Rising temperatures and weather conditions have overwhelmed and damaged crops in West Africa, which produces more than 70% of the […]
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The most expensive Valentine’s Day: cocoa prices reach maximums due to the impact of the climate
Showing your love can cost you dearly Valentine’s Day due to the rise in prices of cocoaat historic highs due to environmental problems in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s main producers. According to the CNBC network, the key product for the production of chocolate has become more expensive by 40% since the beginning of […]
Mexico consumes 700 grams of chocolate per capita per year, according to a report
Mexicans consume 700 grams of chocolate per capita and in celebrations the intake increases up to 20%, as revealed this Monday in a statement from Por Amor al Cacao (PAC), a private sector initiative that celebrates 10 years of promoting the cocoa of Mexico. Sales of this product increase by 18% at Christmas, while on […]
Cocoa and Chocolate Day, this October 1: what are the producing regions of Peru?
This October 1st commemorates the Cocoa and Chocolate Day to value cocoa for its wide genetic diversity, natural characteristics, fine flavor and aroma that impact international markets. This exportable product is produced in 16 regions through the family agriculturewhich energizes the economy, generates jobs and made Peru the third largest exporter in the world, reported […]
Cocoa gains ground in the Colombian coffee axis due to the precarious coffee situation
For decades, the Colombian Coffee Axis has been one of the main economic drivers for hosting one of Colombia’s star products, coffee. Currently, however, the coffee crisis is gradually giving way to another crop: cocoa. On the Maracay farm, one of the numerous agricultural estates in this mountainous area, located in the Colombian departments of […]
Challenges of Peruvian cocoa: climate change and new regulations in the EU
Revered as “the food of the gods” for its flavor and nutrients, cocoa is traditionally one of the main sources of income for farmers in the region. Peruvian Amazone. However, now this crop faces several challenges that directly threaten its commercialization and production. Between January and May of this year, 62,164 tons of cocoa have […]
Denomination of origin Cacao Amazonas Peru would begin to be exported in the last quarter of this year
The year 2016, the indecopi granted the denomination of origin Cocoa Amazon Peru to dry fermented cacao beans with shell produced exclusively in the provinces of Bagua and Utcubamba, in said region. This was established because this product has particular characteristics due to the geographical area where it is planted, between 450 and 1,200 m […]
A German factory stores carbon in cocoa bean shells
At a brick factory in the German port city of hamburgcocoa bean shells are processed into a black powder that stores carbon and can help counteract climate change. The substance, called biochar, is produced by heating the shells to 600ºC in a room without oxygen. The process captures greenhouse gases and the final product can […]
Cocoa, one more ingredient in a tourist city that “sells happiness” in Ecuador
Nestled in the Andean heart of Ecuadorsurrounded by waterfalls and luminous viewpoints, guarded by a volcano and accustomed to “sell happiness” With walks and adventure, the city of Baños de Agua Santa sweetens its visitors with a “Magic Factory”which seeks to end the “injustice” of the chocolate industry by transforming a cocoa cultivated with an […]
The mothers of cocoa, another “black gold” in Venezuela
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Wearing rubber boots and a sharp machete, Nidia Chávez enters the plantation to harvest the “better” cocoa of Venezuelaalso called in his town the “black gold” that feeds them It is a term that is normally reserved for oil, which is also abundant in this Caribbean country. But in Chuao, Aragua state (central-north), cocoa is […]