New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

Cocoa production has increased in certain African countries as growing areas expand at the expense of forests, but online ...

Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...