Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops ...

Andrew Fister, postdoctoral scholar in plant science, stands among cacao trees in the African country of Ivory Coast. Pods turning yellow and black are infected with black pod disease. Disclaimer ...

Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from which chocolate is made. A worker transports cacao pods to be husked. -- BRAD PAULSON photo “The neem and panax ...

No one knows the chocolate making process better than Eldora Chocolate owner and founder Steve Prickett, who sources cacao beans from 35 countries, using them to make and sell fine chocolate at his ...

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to ...

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to stare at trees and count how many pods they have. At every stop ...