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Presentations at the Cocoa Market Outlook Conference 2016
To download the presentations from the Cocoa Market Outlook Conference 2016, please click on the presenter names below.
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Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics – August 2016
London, 31 August 2016--The International Cocoa Organization today releases its revised forecasts for the current 2015/2016 cocoa year and revised estimates of world production, grindings and stocks of cocoa beans for 2014/2015, as summarized…

Sustainability Fund study looks at options to move farmers out of poverty
London, 22 August 2016 – The ICCO today published its Study on the Establishment of a Cocoa Sustainability Fund, which aims at reviewing options to source additional funding to support cocoa farmers.
The cocoa economy faces a number of…

International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, 26 – 30 September 2016, London
The International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, including the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy, as well as the Economics and Administration and Finance Committees, will meet at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Wembley, London,…

Cocoa Market Outlook Conference 2016 set for London 27 September
After the success of the inaugural 2015 edition, once again this year, the International Cocoa Organization is to organize a one-day Conference featuring a high-level panel of sector experts who will consider the prospects for the world cocoa…

Venezuela joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on 27 June 2016 acceded to the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.
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ICCO Panel recognizes 23 countries as fine and flavour cocoa exporters
London, 29 June 2016 – Some 23 countries are now recognized as exporting fine and flavour cocoa, after the ICCO member country delegates meeting on 28 May in the Dominican Republic approved the recommendations of the Organization’s expert Ad…

1,300 participants address sector issues at the Third World Cocoa Conference
Bávaro, The Dominican Republic, 27 May 2016 —About 1,300 participants from 64 cocoa exporting and importing countries in late May converged on the Dominican Republic resort town of Bávaro for the largest cocoa and chocolate meeting ever…

ICCO inaugurates its Abidjan headquarters
May 2017 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics
International Symposium set to focus on cocoa research
International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, 24 – 28 April 2017, Abidjan
ICCO to inaugurate its Abidjan headquarters in April
February 2017 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics
Does market concentration cause poverty among cocoa farmers?
Assessment of world cocoa bean stocks 2015-16
Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics – November 2016
France 24 interviews Executive Director during Salon du Chocolat