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

Domestic Ivorian cocoa exporters competing with multinationals fear bankruptcy
Domestic Ivorian cocoa exporters fear going bankrupt because they cannot compete with the higher prices multinational companies are paying for…
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Markets

What cocoa traders need to know as West African harvests begin
The world’s biggest cocoa producer is on course for a second straight record crop, but its plans for bigger control…
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Investing

Ivory Coast, Ghana looking to regulate cocoa industry’s sustainability schemes
Ivory Coast and Ghana will meet major chocolate makers and grinders in Abidjan on Wednesday to make plans to regulate…
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Politics

Top cocoa grower leaves Ivorians puzzled over rice ministry
With 13 months to go to presidential elections, Ivory Coast last week named a new, larger government with a portfolio…
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Business

Good news for chocolate lovers as rains boost Africa cocoa crops
Farmers in the top two cocoa growers are upbeat about the next harvest after heavy rains in recent weeks helped…
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Crops

Cocoa’s OPEC moment puts world market on track for boom and bust
The world’s two biggest cocoa producers are taking unprecedented steps to exert more control on the market in a bid…
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Business

Ivory Coast and Ghana team up for greater share of chocolate wealth
Kouakou Kinimo is a pretty typical Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. He works a small holding. At 52, he’s roughly the…
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Markets

Ivory Coast says minimum cocoa price needed to draw new growers
Ivory Coast’s move to implement a fixed minimum cocoa price will entice more younger farmers to plant the beans after…
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