It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and ...

Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...

Cocoa is a key issue in the upcoming Côte d’Ivoire elections. As the world's largest cocoa producer, its politics could have ...

Chocolate is one of the worst foods you can buy, in terms of the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. But some people are trying to change that. The long black pruning poles looked cumbersome. But the ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

A family cacao farm here has evolved into Cocoa Kraftique, a new tablea producer led by entrepreneur Lorraine Rebato, who of ...

Tis the season to stir up the most deliciously sweet beverage you've been waiting all year to taste: hot chocolate. And Dollar Tree has all of the fixings that will give you the best cup of cocoa.

Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...