Police on Wednesday rescued 11 children and two teenagers working on cocoa plantations in southwestern Ivory Coast and arrested three farmers on suspicion of people trafficking, the police ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCU25 ) today is up +260 (+3.21%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25 ) is up +145 (+2.69%) Cocoa prices ...

Monday closed up +99 (+1.22%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25) closed down -66 (-1.20%) Cocoa prices on Monday ...

Tuesday closed down -110 (-1.34%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25) closed down -42 (-0.77%) Cocoa prices retreated ...

A U.S. government-funded 2015 study by Tulane University found rampant child labor on the Ivory Coast’s cocoa farms, with 1.2 million children performing child labor in 2013 and 2014.

He grows maize, yam, hevea and five acres of cocoa. Most cocoa farms in Ivory Coast are like his: small, family-run. Ivory Coast’s Cocoa Curse. Elian Peltier 📍Reporting from Binao, Ivory Coast.

Cocoa volumes arriving at Ivory Coast ports are expected to drop 28.5% year-on-year in the first three months of the 2023/2024 season due to erratic weather conditions, according to cocoa farmers ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCU25 ) today is up +238 (+2.79%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN25 ) is up +58 (+0.96%). Cocoa prices today added to Monday's sharp gains on concern about tighter cocoa supplies from ...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Farmers Warn of Mid-Crop Supply Shortages Due to Dry Weather. More. Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Cocoa pods are pictured at a farm in Sinfra, Ivory Coast April 29, 2023.

Harvesting cocoa pods at a farm in the village of Binao, in Ivory Coast’s south. The country accounts for almost half of the cocoa produced around the world. Image ...

A farmer holds cocoa pods on his farm in western Ivory Coast [File: Luc Gnago/Reuters] “This is what the chocolate companies are currently playing with,” said regulator Kone, ...