Cocoa Shortage

Farming can develop in mysterious ways. Israeli researchers learned about that when the war in Gaza seemed to have all but wrecked their work on a more resilient strain of the cocoa plant that could help alleviate a global shortage of the beans.

Scientists in Wales may have found a solution to the global chocolate crisis caused by a cocoa shortage by using by wild mango as a new cocoa butter alternative.

Manufacturers around the world have whipped-up panic about a food shortage that will threaten our very existence. Alright, I got carried away there but can you imagine a world without chocolate? Cue sobs.Few months back, Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut--two...

This news certainly isn't sweet. The cost of ingredients in chocolate bars is rising, and the nation's biggest candy makers have already warned of price hikes next year. (A severe chocolate shortage on the horizon.) And it's not just costs that are pushing...

Latin America, the birthplace of cocoa, trails far behind West Africa in terms of production, but an increase in world demand - notably in Asia - could give the region a needed boost. The cocoa beans from Central and South America are known as being of...

The future may be bitter for chocolate lovers unless cocoa producers step up their output dramatically to satisfy an expected surge in demand from emerging market countries, an industry executive warns.Juergen Steinemann, head of Barry Callebaut, the...

Farming can develop in mysterious ways. Israeli researchers learned about that when the war in Gaza seemed to have all but wrecked their work on a more resilient strain of the cocoa plant that could help alleviate a global shortage of the beans.

Scientists in Wales may have found a solution to the global chocolate crisis caused by a cocoa shortage by using by wild mango as a new cocoa butter alternative.

Manufacturers around the world have whipped-up panic about a food shortage that will threaten our very existence. Alright, I got carried away there but can you imagine a world without chocolate? Cue sobs.Few months back, Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut--two...

This news certainly isn't sweet. The cost of ingredients in chocolate bars is rising, and the nation's biggest candy makers have already warned of price hikes next year. (A severe chocolate shortage on the horizon.) And it's not just costs that are pushing...

Latin America, the birthplace of cocoa, trails far behind West Africa in terms of production, but an increase in world demand - notably in Asia - could give the region a needed boost. The cocoa beans from Central and South America are known as being of...

The future may be bitter for chocolate lovers unless cocoa producers step up their output dramatically to satisfy an expected surge in demand from emerging market countries, an industry executive warns.Juergen Steinemann, head of Barry Callebaut, the...