Cocoa prices have recently reached record highs, plunging the cocoa sector into disarray and damaging the financial outlook for large-scale manufacturers. Such cataclysmic price increases are often ...

Greg McFarlane is a financial writer and co-founder of ControlYourCash.com. He is also the co-author of Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, ...

Agricultural commodities are the backbone of the global economy, feeding and powering the world. In 2022, we saw a surge in CBOT corn and soybean prices, reaching multiyear highs and almost breaking ...

Five years ago, as world spot gold prices began an unprecedented rally to around $1,900 an ounce in late 2011, poor cocoa farmers woke up to the possibility that salvation lay beneath their feet. A ...

Last year, a cocoa shortage drove up prices for European chocolate makers and consumers. This was largely due to an exceptionally wet rainy season as well as a viral cocoa disease that severely ...

Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, ...

Obuasi, Ghana — Kwaku Asare grabbed his machete and trekked through the bush to his cocoa farm—through winding pathways and hills, past ominous pits of muddy water, and underneath the low-hanging ...