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Ivory Coast
Cocoa regulator's credibility on line over 2023-2024 season

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“West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders”

Ghana, Ivory Coast

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

By jointly introducing a premium of $400 per tonne on cocoa beans in autumn 2020, Ivory Coast and Ghana were seeking to ensure that cocoa producers' revenues were maintained. In so doing, however, they sparked off an open war with the big commodity traders, who have since taken steps to get round the measure and avoid paying the premium. This battle of wills has paralysed a sector which has already been badly affected by Covid-19 and speeded up the transformation of the trading sector, encouraging Ghana and Ivory Coast to trade their cocoa beans on their own account. [...]

Preparing bags of cocoa beans on an Ivorian farm, October 2023. © Legnan Koula/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

The cocoa selling season in Ivory Coast is turning into a fiasco for the Conseil Café Cacao, which traders have accused of promising non-existent quantities of beans. [...]

Published on 16.11.2023 at 04:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Cargill loses its cocoa pole position

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Cocoa: Abidjan faces boycott from trading giants after sales open

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A farmer works with cocoa beans at a farm in Adzope town, southern Ivory Coast, 13 October 2023.

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Abidjan keeps up cocoa pressure on Brussels

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Abidjan stings Cargill with hefty tax fine

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Foreign cocoa exporter success fuels local discontent

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A bag of cocoa beans stamped "Conseil du café-cacao" in Ivory Coast.

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Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota

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A farm worker with cacoa beans at a farm in Ivory Coast.

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Worried Ivorian cocoa traders turn to Ouattara for help

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