After reaching historic highs in 2024 and early 2025 – when cocoa was dubbed “better than bitcoin” – cocoa prices recently crashed again, leaving farmers in distress.
Implementation of anti-deforestation legislation led by the...
01/04/2026
As cocoa prices surge, two new studies reveal that the new frontiers of cocoa production in Central Africa are seeing women’s rights trampled and rising deforestation. Tyala Ifwanga argues that the EU’s much delayed...
10/03/2026
The EUDR will enter into force at the end of 2025, following a one-year delay, but there is evidence that it has already triggered political efforts to better protect forests in tropical and EU forested countries.
This...
23/06/2025
Côte d’Ivoire’s socio-economic wellbeing is intricately intertwined with cocoa, which creates 14% of its gross domestic product, and supplies 45% of global cocoa production – making it the largest cocoa producer in the world. But...
11/06/2024
