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With the One Bar project, a farmer could expect to get paid $3,400 a metric ton for the same crop without taking into account extra income made from the consumers who donate the token back to the farmer.

FairChain Foundation has launched a chocolate bar that enables consumers to finance cocoa farmers. The Other Bar is backed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The aim of the new product is to encourage consumers to help farmers. Produced from organic Ecuadorian cocoa, it gives consumers the chance to take a bite out of poverty by

A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois suggests that three of the phenolic compounds in cocoa bean shells have powerful effects on the fat and immune cells, potentially reversing the chronic inflammation and insulin resistance associated with obesity. Visiting scholar in food science Miguel Rebollo-Hernanz and Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, a professor

West African cocoa has been scorned by craft chocolate makers, but a project in Sierra Leone and one potentially taking off in Liberia are proving that the region has plenty to offer to the bean to bar market One could sometimes be forgiven for thinking that the cocoa in almost all bean to bar or

Cocoa producers adjusting to requirements for limits on levels of ochratoxin A, cadmium and PAHs in cocoa could soon find they have to respond to limits on mineral oils, alkalising agents and other substances. Speakers at recent conferences suggest that limits on substances such as mineral oil and alkalising agents might be introduced in due