Daily Prices at time of London Close

	15 May 2012	14 May 2012
ICCO daily price (SDRs/tonne)	1527.52	1515.16
ICCO daily price (US$/tonne)	2341.87	2324.47
London futures (£ sterling/tonne)	1500.33	1494.67
New York futures (US$/tonne)	2282.00	2242.67

Ivorian Prime Minister officiates at World Cocoa Conference launch in Abidjan

14 May 2012—At a ceremony held in Abidjan on 9 May, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, H.E. Mr Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio, officially... more +

Request for inputs in preparation for the World Cocoa Conference, 19-23 November 2012, Hôtel Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

1 May 2012--The Executive Director a.i. presents his compliments and has the honour to refer to the decision taken by the International... more +

Report on the outcome of the Meetings of the 85th regular session of the International Cocoa Council, Guayaquil, Ecuador

2 April 2012--The International Cocoa Council, meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador in the last week of March, backed the upcoming World Cocoa... more +

Cameroon joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Cameroon on 26 March 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed. Click here... more +

Dominican Republic joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Dominican Republic on 9 March 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section... more +

Latest Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics

29 February 2012--The International Cocoa Organization today released its first forecasts for the 2011/2012 cocoa year and revised... more +

International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, including the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy

The International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, including the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy, will meet in Guayaquil,... more +

Gabon joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Gabon on 18 January 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.... more +

The Democratic Republic of the Congo joins the International Cocoa Agreement

The Democratic Republic of the Congo on 4 November 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations... more +

The ICCO announces the World Cocoa Conference, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 19 – 23 November 2012

London, 5 December 2011--The ICCO is organizing the first high-level World Cocoa Conference, to take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire,... more +

Report on the outcome of the Meetings of the 84th regular session of the International Cocoa Council

The Executive Director a.i. presents a review of outcome of September’s 84th regular session of the International Cocoa Council and... more +

Côte d’Ivoire joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Côte d’Ivoire on 20 September 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.... more +

Togo joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Togo on 19 September 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.... more +

Indonesia joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Indonesia on 12 September, 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed. Click... more +

Ghana joins the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement

Ghana on 19 August, 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed. Click... more +

Costa Rica joins the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement

Costa Rica on 6 July, 2011 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed. Click... more +

Uncoordinated projects could make cocoa's boom and bust cycle worse, the ICCO's Executive Director says

A range of uncoordinated projects aimed at stimulating output in producing countries could exacerbate the damaging “boom and bust”... more +

Terminal Markets Seminar updates member delegates on the cocoa futures markets

The ICCO’s Seminar on Cocoa Terminal Markets in mid-June brought representatives of a number of ICCO member governments up to date... more +

European Union joins the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement

The Executive Director a.i., Dr Jean-Marc Anga, has announced that the European Union has joined the International Cocoa Agreement... more +

Cameroon Workshop launches the ICCO's SPS Cocoa Africa project

An International Cocoa Organization Workshop that began on 7 June in Cameroon marked the launch of a major programme to help African... more +

Technical paper on Cocoa Variety Improvement now available from this site

The Technical paper 'Collaborative and Participatory Approaches to Cocoa Variety Improvement' is now available for download from this... more +

Implementation of the Recommendations of the First and Second Roundtables on a Sustainable Cocoa Economy

The Executive Director a.i. presents his compliments and has the honour to refer to the decision taken by the International Cocoa Council... more +

Outcome of the March 2011 meetings of the International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, including the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy

At a Press Conference held on 25 March, 2011 and attended by the Chairman of the International Cocoa Council and the Chairman of the... more +

ICA List of Pesticides potentially used on Cocoa (2011)

The 2011 ICA List of Pesticides potentially used on cocoa includes details of active ingredients and indicates whether these compounds... more +

Outcome of the International Workshop on the Safe Use of Pesticides and Harmonization of Legislation for Food Safety, 25-27 January 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The International Workshop on the Safe Use of Pesticides in Cocoa and Harmonized Legislation for Food Safety was held at the Renaissance... more +

ICCO Manual on Pesticides in Cocoa

The International Cocoa Organization is pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of the Manual on the Safe Use of... more +

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