🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
Current and comprehensive agriculture, market and development news in Ivory Coast.
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Markets

Cocoa buyers back Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire cocoa premium schemes
Major cocoa buyers have agreed to pay a premium and back a price floor on cocoa sold by Ghana and…
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News

Nestle to pay cocoa farmers cash incentives to fight child labor
Nestle SAÂ will offer cocoa farmers and their families in the Ivory Coast cash incentives that aim to reduce child labor,…
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Fruit & Nuts

Farmers expect good start to Africa’s main cocoa crop season
Farmers in top cocoa growers Ivory Coast and Ghana are becoming increasingly confident of a good start to the main-crop…
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Environment

Ivory Coast lost 47,000 hectares of forest to cocoa production in 2020, environmental group says
Ivory Coast lost 47,000 hectares (116,000 acres) of forest in its cocoa-growing regions in 2020, an environmental group said on…
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Environment

Heavy rains in Ivory Coast boost prospects for main cocoa harvest, but hurt mid-crop
Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions bode well for the start of the next main…
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Markets

Coronavirus slams West Africa’s cashew market, some crops left to rot
Olivier Gore-Bi took out loans to ready his 12-acre cashew farm in Ivory Coast for harvest. He is now leaving…
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Investing

Ivory Coast rains bring relief to cocoa farmers
Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions could boost the last stage of the April-to-September cocoa…
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Economy

Ivory Coast rain and sun to boost cocoa mid-crop
Abundant rain mixed with sunny spells in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions last week will boost the mid-crop in…
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