Climate change threatens agricultural production across sub‐Saharan Africa, where most farmers rely on rainfall.

You may think you know all there is about chocolate, but cacao beans are only part of the story. With a rich history, cacao has been used as currency, for medicinal remedies, during spiritual rituals, ...

In Robillard, a tiny hamlet deep in the Haitian hinterland, Valmir Mamonvil is standing next to a would-be national hero: Maman Pye cacao, which in Haitian Creole means "mother cacao tree." His father ...

Why cacao-rich Indonesia is not (yet) a global chocolate producerBuilding on its decades-old role as a major cacao producer, ...

Biologists have discovered a new and intricate ecological relationship between cacao trees and the ubiquitous fungi that inhabit them, in which the trees are protected by armies of "good" ...

TACURONG CITY, Sultan Kudarat (PIA) — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has strengthened its support for cacao farmers in Sultan Kudarat, especially in the management and handling of cacao ...

Cocoa farmers in the Central Region have called for greater commitment to strengthening laws that protect cocoa trees and farms ...

NEW YORK >> New research strengthens the case that people used the chocolate ingredient cacao in South America 5,400 years ago, underscoring the seed’s radical transformation into today’s Twix bars ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao - the source of chocolate - thanks to residues detected on a batch of ancient ...

Both the volume and concentration of filtrate of Aspergillus niger and Trichoderma viride influenced the development of the radicles of cocoa seedlings. Radicles placed in Petri dishes containing ...