🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
Current and comprehensive agriculture, market and development news in Ivory Coast.
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Nestle, Cargill again face suit by ex-slaves in cocoa fields
Six former child slaves from Mali who accused food producers Nestle SA and Cargill Inc. of aiding and abetting their forced labor in African…
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Ivorian cocoa farmers hope for dry weather as disease flares in east
Above-average rainfall in Ivory Coast’s eastern cocoa-growing regions last week could hinder bean-drying and fuel the spread of disease, farmers…
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Ivory Coast raises cocoa farmers’ pay after price recovery
Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, raised farmers’ pay for the new season for the first time in two…
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African cocoa harvest begins with test for world’s top producers
The new cocoa season kicking off this week offers an opportunity for the two biggest producers to show they’re serious…
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Whose farm is it anyway? Drones give answers in top cocoa grower
In a cramped office in his parents’ backyard in Ivory Coast, Joseph-Olivier Biley is dreaming up solutions to Africa’s farming…
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