Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

Friday closed up +671 (+6.39%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed up +426 (+4.99%). Cocoa prices surged Friday ...

Tree crops – for example, apple, cherry, olives, nuts, coffee, and cacao – cover more than 183 million hectares worldwide, ...

Cocoa powder vs. cacao powder The plant used to make chocolate is called the cacao tree. It makes a fruit called cacao beans. Raw beans can be crushed into cacao powder. But if the beans are ...

Trees experiencing drought alter their leaves, wood and roots in ways that prime them for continued dry conditions. Wood under drought might have smaller cells that are less vulnerable to future ...

During the wet season, some trees provided a 10% increase in cocoa yields compared to the control group. The study used seasonal leaf cycles as a lens for comparison. This was more manageable than ...

Every winter you see them, the few trees who just will not let go of their leaves. Little brown leaves flittering in the frigid wind. Hard as the wind may blow, they hang on and hang on.

he said. “Oil palms are trees, right? They have leaves, right?” he went on. “They produce oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide. So why are we being accused [of deforestation]? Those things they ...

The company uses cell culture technology to grow 100 percent natural cocoa from just one or two beans. Its aim is to 'eliminate the industry's costly reliance on fragile rainforests,' the ...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ... farmers reported that cocoa trees are beginning to suffer the effects of the seasonal dry and dusty Harmattan winds, with leaves turning yellow and the cherelles ...