West Africa wants more of Europe’s chocolate pie
Multinational companies Series Cocoa in West Africa, Episode 5: Growing and exporting cocoa beans may be big business in Ivory Coast, but it’s low-margin and volatile. A government strategy to […]
ʿIn a colonial project there is no exchangeʾ
History Chocolate and Le Corbusier belong together — not just on account of their ties to Switzerland, but also because their histories are closely linked to colonialism. A conversation with […]
How gold mining in Ghana is threatening Swiss chocolate
Multinational companies As the world’s second-largest cocoa producer continues to lose swathes of farmland to illegal gold mining, Switzerland’s chocolate makers are waking up to the threat to their raw […]
Historic win for Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire after halting global cocoa sales until farmers get fair price
June 14, 2019 at 11:00 am | Money Moves Etsey Atisu | Staff Writer Etsey Atisu prefers to be called a born writer, before anything else. He is a […]
Scientists invent chocolate so healthy ‘it could be eaten as medicine’
The Independent Alexandra Sims14 hrs ago © CorbisChocolate so healthy it could be eaten as medicine has allegedly been invented by scientists. Scientists at an American chocolate company specialising in herbal technologies claim to have developed the “medicinal” chocolate, which contains only 35 per cent fat. Cacao, the key ingredient […]