The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Rather than displacing cocoa farming, Win-Win is responding to a widening supply–demand gap. Pak believes innovations like ...

The Aztecs believed cacao was a sacred gift from the god Quetzalcoatl , who was later punished by the other gods for sharing ...

Behind every Manam Chocolate bar is a farmer’s name, a family’s story, and a field in West Godavari. By working directly with ...

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"Cocoa isn't exempt from issues affecting manufacturers and tariffs because we don't grow any cocoa domestically," Baker said ...

World Cocoa Day was established in 2010 by the International Cocoa Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

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"We should be competing on chocolate, competing on shelf, but we should be collaborating on cocoa and in the chain," says Rianne van Doeveren, general manager at Tony's Open Chain. Six more companies ...

According to Cornejo, cocoa domestication may have happened at any point between about 2,400 and 11,000 years ago, and the “most likely scenario” seems to be about 3,600 years ago.