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November 2012 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics
30 November 2012--The International Cocoa Organization today released its revised estimates, summarized below, of world production, grindings and stocks of cocoa beans for the 2011/2012 cocoa year. The data published in Issue No. 4 - Volume…

Abidjan Declaration climaxes the World Cocoa Conference
ABIDJAN, 23 November 2012--The Abidjan Cocoa Declaration—outlining a course of action to bring about major changes in the cocoa sector--was signed at the end of the successful first-ever edition of the World Cocoa Conference,…

Liberia joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010
Liberia on 13 November 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.
Click here to see the official notification of signature to the Agreement from the United Nations.

New cocoa certification studies now available to download
Two new studies on cocoa certification commissioned by the ICCO are now available to be downloaded from the website.
The reports, Study on the costs, advantages and disadvantages of cocoa certification, by KPMG and Étude sur les coûts, les…

The International Cocoa Agreement 2010 enters into force
The Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 19 September 2012 convened a meeting of the parties that had negotiated and concluded the International Cocoa Agreement, 2010, pursuant to Article 57,…

Sierra Leone joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010
Sierra Leone on 1 October 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.
Click here to see the official notification of signature to the Agreement from the United Nations.

Trinidad and Tobago joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010
Trinidad and Tobago on 24 September 2012 signed the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed.
Click here to see the official notification of signature to the Agreement from the United Nations.

August 2012 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics
28 August 2012--The International Cocoa Organization today released its revised forecasts for the 2011/2012 cocoa year and revised estimates for 2010/2011 of world production, grindings and stocks of cocoa beans, summarized below. The data published…
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Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics – November 2016
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Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics – August 2016
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International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, 26 – 30 September 2016, London
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