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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

Research underway at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences aims to help growers and craft chocolate makers. “Like craft beer and specialty coffee, craft chocolates are a popular indulgence among consumers who are searching for something different,” said Allison Brown, a food science doctoral candidate in the college’s International Agriculture and Development (INTAD) dual-title degree programme. “The craft chocolate

An investigation by Mighty Earth, ‘Chocolate’s Dark Secret,’ has found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Mars, Nestlé, Hershey’s, Godiva and other major chocolate companies was ‘grown illegally’ in national parks and other protected areas in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. “The report documents how in several national parks and