Building a better Italian chocolate bar
How useful is certification for guaranteeing the quality of cocoa beans from a given source? And how does it benefit
Category: Cocoa Producing Countries
How satellite technology can prevent deforestation…
It has been a while! For the past year and a half, I have been working at the Food and
Why gender matters in the cocoa value chain
When world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York next September for a Special Summit on Sustainable Development,
Are we really running out of chocolate?
Amid the media hype over fears of a worldwide shortage of cocoa caused by surging chocolate consumption in emerging markets
Cocoa is Ghana, Ghana is Cocoa…
Cocoa is Ghana, Ghana is Cocoa – as the saying goes here. Ghana is the world’s second largest exporter of
Inaugurating Valrhona’s cocoa plantation in the Dominican Republic
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of working with Valrhona, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of fine chocolate,
Tain l’Hermitage: where fine chocolate meets fine wine
Tain l’Hermitage is a small town on the left bank of the Rhône in south-eastern France. Located in the northern
When the cocoa trail becomes the chocolate trail
All good things come to an end. Now it is time for me to return to Europe. But rest assured!
The essentials of cacao tree pruning
The pruning of cacao trees is essential in the management of a cacao field. When done efficiently, pruning helps to
Learning how to manage a cocoa plantation
The last few weeks of my cocoa trail are spent at the Ecuadorean government’s agricultural research institute INIAP, an acronym
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