The chocolate islands

With 250 years of brewing history behind his family, Arthur Edward Guinness was discouraged from taking on the responsibility that the men of his family had for centuries. Now Ned, or Lord Iveagh, grows crops, brews beer and is in pursuit of being able to pour the perfect pint in ...  Show more

We're in Santa’s grotto – sort of - a Chinese city that some call the Christmas capital of the world. With 75,000 traders, across 50,000 stores, Yiwu offers the world’s largest wholesale market across a labyrinth of arcades. But at a time of growing trade tensions with the US, wh ...  Show more

La production de cacao au Liberia est en plein essor et pourrait rapidement compléter l'offre d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Mais elle suscite cependant de nombreuses questions. Au rythme actuel, la production de cacao au Liberia, évaluée aujourd'hui entre 10 et 30 000 tonnes, pourrait ra ...  Show more

The bittersweet world of chocolate is complex - cocoa beans are produced by some of the poorest people on the planet and turned into chocolate for some of the richest, and the sweet stuff is haunted by child labour, slavery, trafficking and deforestation. But could the rise of ar ...  Show more

Growing the cocoa needed to produce chocolate on the scale a company like Mars or Hershey needs is an immense undertaking. One serious consequence chocolate producers are now facing is deforestation in countries that grow the cocoa for the world's chocolate demands. The Washin ...

Chez le premier producteur et exportateur de cacao, la Côte d'Ivoire, plus de la moitié des fèves ne sont pas traçables. C'est ce que montre une étude, à l'heure où la règlementation européenne devient de plus en plus exigeante en terme de durabilité et de traçabilité du cacao im ...  Show more