Five things Africa can do to make the most of its cocoa
Multinational companies read aloudX Series Cocoa in West Africa, Episode 6: West Africa produces 75% of the world’s cocoa beans that go into making chocolate. Yet barely one-fifth of cocoa […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nestlé will pay African cocoa farmers to keep children in schools
Around 10,000 cocoa households in Ivory Coast could earn up to CHF500 ($536) a year if they keep their children in school, improve farm productivity, diversify income and protect the […]
Swiss chocolates in danger?
Why Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland March 15, 2021 at 04:00 pm | OPINIONS & FEATURES NII NTREH | Associate Editor FULL BIOCLOS March 15, 2021 at 04:00 pm […]
President of Ghana visits Switzerland to help attract investors
By Kathrin Ammann Feb 28, 2020 – swissinfo.ch For the first time in 60 years, Switzerland has organised a state visit for a leader from Sub-Saharan Africa – Ghana’s […]
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 […]
Renewables, purchasing power By the numbers: cocoa, test tube babies and an old shoe
This content was published on March 31, 2018 (Keystone) Almost every article published by swissinfo.ch contains a percentage, an age, an amount of money or some other figure. Here’s a round-up […]
Cocoa kings: The pioneers of Switzerland’s ‘Chocolate Revolution’
By Thomas Stephens This content was published on December 13, 2017 Candy girls: an advert for Suchard chocolate from 1893 (Apic/Getty Images) How did a country without a single homegrown […]
CHOCOLATE TRADE: Agronomist wants to ensure fair means fair
By Valerie Thurner APR 14, 2017 Swiss agronomist Florian Studer (r) with Ugandan cocoa-producer Beka Ara Kisekka.(swissinfo.ch) A Swiss start-up has launched an experiment in Uganda to give cocoa […]
Cocoa Smuggling Hampers Ivory Coast
ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast—President Alassane Ouattara is trying to restore the economy of the world’s largest cocoa producer, but many farmers here continue to smuggle beans out of the West African […]