Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

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

For hundreds of years, people have turned to chocolate to boost heart health. Back in the 1500s, the indigenous Aztec people ...

Each year, lovebirds purchase about 58 million pounds of the stuff for Valentine’s Day, so why not you? After all, chocolate ...

Valentine's Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this indulgence faces an existential ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations ...