As you nibble on a chocolate truffle or bite into a chocolate-dipped strawberry on Valentine’s Day, consider the elongated, ribbed pods of the cacao tree, which made that sweet treat possible.

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

rotting cacao pods. The impact of climate change extends beyond heat stress. Cacao trees are also sensitive to rainfall patterns. Cacao thrives when rainfall totals between 1,500 and 2,000 ...

Chocolate is delicious and chocolate comes from cacao beans, so cacao beans should also be delicious, right? Well, you may ...

This method enhances soil health and improves plant growth and crop nutrition. He said that the husks of discarded cacao pods are burned and reused as biocharcoal. “We were able to work with WasteX, a ...

Conventional chocolate production uses only the beans (30% of the cacao) and discards the rest. Creating demand for the entire pod, farmers gain an opportunity to diversify their income streams.

As you nibble on a chocolate truffle or bite into a chocolate-dipped strawberry on Valentine’s Day, consider the elongated, ...

Cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — is produced from the bean pods of cacao plants. Cacao thrives under specific ranges of temperature and rainfall. Warm to hot temperatures up to 90 ...

We use ‘cacao’ to describe the unrefined bean and the tree on which it grows. Cacao trees produce pods which contain around 20-60 seeds, known as cocoa beans. Cacao is minimally processed ...

it's already too late," said Paul Kouame Kouakou, who owns four hectares of cocoa in Duekoue, a town in west Ivory Coast. It usually takes a flower around 22 weeks to become a mature pod.