Ghana Cocoa Board

Ghana, Ivory Coast
How Accra and Abidjan have coordinated cocoa purchase prices

The Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative was consulted by Presidents Alassane Ouattara and John Dramani Mahama before they announced the new tariffs for cocoa farmers in their respective countries.

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Early Ghanaian cocoa harvest disconcerts Abidjan

Ghana's Cocobod has decided to begin its cocoa harvest on 1 August, two months ahead of schedule. The Ivorian Coffee and Cocoa Council is sticking to its usual practice.

Ghana
Why IFC is supporting cocoa trade via local bank

The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private investment arm helmed in Africa by the Franco-Portuguese Sérgio Pimenta, is due on 17 February to consider a $40m loan to Societe Generale Ghana, a 57%-owned subsidiary of the French bank Société Générale.

The New Guard
DRC, Sudan, Ghana

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

DRC Noëlla Ayeganagato Nakwipone, young but not inexperienced minister

Sudan Mohamed Sigeir, pharmacist and central to Taqaddum coalition

Ghana Nana Kwasi Barning Ackah, key cocoa mediator

Ivory Coast
Syngenta fails to thrive in Abidjan's agriculture sector

Syngenta, the leading Swiss crop protection and seed development specialist, which ChemChina acquired in 2017, is struggling to do business in the cocoa and banana sectors in Ivory Coast.

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Abidjan and Accra cross swords over cocoa

The difficult marketing campaign for the 2023-2024 harvest is undermining cooperation between the two West African giants in the sector.

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Why West African producers snubbed World Cocoa Foundation meeting

The business and political leaders of Ivory Coast and Ghana's cocoa sectors did not attend the partnership meeting between the world's chocolate producers in Brussels this week. Their aim was to put pressure on European decision-makers working on new supply standards.

Spotlight | Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Cameroon and Nigeria's talks with cocoa cartel bear fruit

Details have emerged about Yaoundé et Abuja's talks in Abidjan to join the Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative, set up to defend the interests of the world's two largest cocoa producers.

Ghana
Cocobod grapples with cocoa farmers' associations

Communications between the cocoa sector regulator and the main bean producer organisations have become strained. The latter reproach the public body for not consulting them, particularly on the re-evaluation of the on-farm price, unchanged since 2019.

Ghana
Cocobod faces soaring fertiliser costs and large-scale illicit resales

Cocobod hasn't changed the price it charges cocoa farmers for fertiliser even though the international market price has gone through the roof. Meanwhile the illegal resale of the heavily subsidised fertilisers that it distributes to its Ghanaian affiliates is flourishing.

The New Guard
Guinea, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

GuineaDjami Diallo, key to negotiations on the Simandou iron ore project

KenyaOgutu Okudo, oil specialist and Odinga's spin doctor

South AfricaMaropene Ramokgopa, the pro-Ramaphosa leader of the ANC Women's League

GhanaTawiah Agyarko-Kwarteng, social and environmental spokesperson for the cocoa industry

West Africa
Abidjan and Accra allied against multinationals in new cocoa war

The heads of Ghana Cocobod and Ivory Coast's Conseil Café Cacao were in Accra last week to refine their joint strategy in the face of the industry's trading giants and industrialists, who are considering diversifying their supplies elsewhere.

Ghana, Ivory Coast
New cocoa cartel playing it soft with buyers

Set to be enforced right before the 2020 presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, the $400 surcharge on cocoa futures contracts is already being softened in private negotiations with buyers.