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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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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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.
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November 2014 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics

ICCO Statement on Reports of a Cocoa Supply Deficit in 2020

ICCO Statement on Ebola and the West African cocoa sector

Russian Federation joins the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

August 2014 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics

World Cocoa Conference concludes with Amsterdam Declaration

May 2014 Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics