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Top North American processor Blommer signs Abidjan Cocoa Declaration

LONDON, 22 February 2013—Blommer Chocolate Company, the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier in North America, has become the latest cocoa stakeholder to sign the Abidjan Cocoa Declaration, the ICCO revealed today. President…
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ICCO partners with CFC and industry in project to cut African cocoa losses

LONDON, 14 February 2013--The ICCO is to lead a new initiative to tackle cocoa pests and diseases in West Africa, in partnership with the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), the European Cocoa Association (ECA), the world’s two leading chocolate…
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International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, 18-22 March 2013, Bali, Indonesia

The International Cocoa Council and subsidiary bodies, including the new Economics and Administration and Finance Committees, created under the terms of the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement , will meet in Bali, Indonesia 18 - 22 March…
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Noble becomes 30th stakeholder to sign Abidjan Cocoa Declaration

13 January 2013--Hong Kong-based multinational cocoa trader Noble Group on 7 January signed the Abidjan Cocoa Declaration. Noble joins 29 other cocoa sector stakeholders, ranging from cocoa growers through their governments to civil society…
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Ghana ratifies the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Ghana on 18 December 2012 ratified the International Cocoa Agreement 2010, the United Nations Treaty Section has confirmed. Click here to see the official notification of ratification to the Agreement from the United Nations.
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29 Signatories to the Abidjan Cocoa Declaration take the first step to a sustainable sector

Some 29 organizations and countries operating across the spectrum of the international cocoa sector by 30 November had signed the ground-breaking Abidjan Cocoa Declaration, the ICCO revealed today. The cocoa sector stakeholders, ranging from…
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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…
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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,…
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CNN’s Richard Quest to moderate child labour panel at WCC2 Amsterdam

ICCO receives French Chocolate Academy’s 2014 prize

World Cocoa Conference gathers the sector to hear over 65 speakers

Zurich Certification Workshop finds common ground

Peru joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Le Pérou adhère à l’Accord international sur le cacao de 2010

February 2014 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics

Futures Markets and Econometrics Modelling Seminar in Abidjan