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Cocoa Farmers Uproot Their Plants Despite Record Prices

Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcoin, but that hasn’t stopped farmers from abandoning the crop. Farmers in the top cocoa-producing region of the world are reseeding ...
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Companies are crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways ...
The Republic

Chocolate’s future could hinge on success of growing cocoa not just in the tropics, but in the lab

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways ...
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High hopes in Israel for 'super hero' cocoa that survived frontline conditions

A bean and flowers grow on a cacao tree in a greenhouse in Rishon Lezion ESHKOL COUNCIL, Israel (Reuters) - Farming can develop in mysterious ways. Israeli researchers learned about that when the war ...
The Columbian

Companies crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand

Chocolate callets are displayed at the California Cultured office in West Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Climate change is stressing ...