A new generation of craft chocolate makers in Brazil is creating bars with “identity.” And they’re helping to sustain the ...

Things were looking bleak for Vicenta González, the 73-year-old owner of a cacao plantation in northern Costa Rica, near the border with Nicaragua. Several years ago, the waters of a nearby river ...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually. The ...

CANO RICO, Venezuela - Cacao pods ripen to colors from bright yellow to crimson in the forest-shaded plantations of Venezuela, where some of the world's finest chocolate is born. The crop is ...

The exploitation of precious wood in the rainforests has led to more sustainable initiatives in the Northern Highlands. One of these initiatives is community cocoa plantation, intended for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elva Ramirez is a wine and spirits reporter, and cocktail book author. If you love chocolate (and who doesn't), then you should ...

By Mongabay.com Soaring cacao prices over the last three years are fueling deforestation and conflict in Grand Gedeh county ...

Roasting cacao smells just like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, something Michael Caines knows well. For the past few years, he’s been running Shanao Cacao, a farm-to-bar chocolate company in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Years of satellite imagery and analysis reveals that United Cacao, a company once publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, deforested nearly 2 ...

Say the word, “chocolate,” and I get giddy. Combine it with the word, “Hana,” and I become so elated, I grab my camera and note pad and just about fly out the door at the chance to travel to Maui’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Abigail Abesamis Demarest is a writer who covers food and drink. Today, Oded Brenner of Max Brenner fame launched Blue Stripes, a ...