As the country's main export product, cocoa farming accounts for between 15% and 20% of Côte d'Ivoire's GDP. The sector has therefore mobilized to comply with the new law.

The latest cycle of violence in Cote d'Ivoire has sent thousands of expatriates fleeing and left hundreds of small businesses flirting with bankruptcy. But the cocoa sector - the backbone of the ...

Enable Côte d’Ivoire to obtain a bigger share of the value added created by the global cocoa sector by improving (i) the productivity of plantations in an environmentally sound manner through the ...

The cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire faces social and environmental challenges . Côte d’Ivoire supplies 40% of the world’s cocoa but only receives between 5% and 7% of the profit generated by this sector ...

Côte d'Ivoire’s transition to peace has been a long and difficult one. 2010’s much-delayed election ended with the winner, Alassane Outtara, ... The cocoa sector, ...

One of the initiatives designed to add value to the industrial sector is the promotion of the Made in Côte d’Ivoire label, part of the PND 2021-25. This is aimed at the cocoa industry, to signal to ...

ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 500 representatives of the global chocolate and cocoa sector, including farmers, have gathered in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's leading ...

Cocoa is also Côte d'Ivoire's main export, representing some 35 percent of goods sent abroad. ... In the northern sector, overseen by the rebel New Forces (Forces Nouvelles, FN), ...

As Hershey and other confectionery giants continue to navigate higher costs, startups and ingredient suppliers are looking to ...

Although the announcement of €1bn for the cocoa sector made by the European Union (EU) ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire has made headlines, there is still a long way to go from words to actions – as only ...

By the CargillVoice Team A project addressing access to affordable funding for cocoa farmer cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire, in the cocoa sector, was named winner of the Food Ingredients Europe ...

The grinding sector has been growing strongly over the past few years. According to Jean-Marc Anga from the International Cocoa Organization, in the 2014/2015 cocoa season Côte d’Ivoire surpassed the ...