Cocoa 
SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day – Smart Money
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Dow Jones)–With some farmers in Cameroon’s cocoa-growing Center Region no longer hoarding their cocoa harvests, prices paid for the crop this week plunged further to a new low of XAF800 to XAF930 ($1.60 to $1.85) per kilogram …
Investors in ‘Fetal Position’ as Goldman Sees Rally: Commodities – Bloomberg
Gold and precious metal net inflows were $738 million, while non-precious metal commodities had a net outflow of $582 million, said Cameron Brandt … Investors boosted their bearish cocoa bets by 50 percent, and increased their net-short …
Four People Arrested for Trafficking Elephant Ivory – Softpedia
They decided to carry the goods using a truck that was transporting cocoa. Their ingenious plan failed; since Cameroon authorities managed to seize the large amount of elephant ivory and take the people involved in this illegal activity into custody … Continue reading
The Soft Spot(41) – Inside Futures
Other farmers continue to hold back supply as well. In fact, thousands of cocoa farmers in Cameroon’s Center Region are refusing to sell cocoa at these price levels. This is an extremely dangerous tact. I fear for their well being. … Continue reading
FACTBOX-Key political risks in the Gulf of Guinea – Reuters
DAKAR Dec 12 (Reuters) – A stretch of West Africa’s coast spanning more than a dozen countries, the Gulf of Guinea is a growing source of oil, cocoa and metals to … Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cameroon. NEW ENERGY … Continue reading
Africa … States of Independence – Aljazeera.com
Cocoa and coffee are both labour intensive industries and … plus Ghanians, people from Benin, Cameroon etc. If we decide to count after removing all these people, there would be maybe five Ivoirians left,” Adama says. Fifty years on from … Continue reading
Cameroon Coffee Production Fell 39% on Plants and Smuggling – Businessweek
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — Coffee production in Cameroon, central Africa’s biggest grower of … according to Bloomberg calculations made using data from the Cocoa and Coffee Board. Production of robusta, which is used in instant coffee and …
EU Treaty: Britain and the EU – timeline of relations – Daily Telegraph
Chocolate purists, such as Belgium and France, campaigned for only cocoa butter and not vegetable oil to be used … after plans for an official constitution were abandoned. David Cameron clashes with Europe over plans to introduce a levy on … Continue reading
Cameroon Coffee Production Falls 39% on Plants and Smuggling – Bloomberg
Coffee production in Cameroon, central Africa’s biggest grower of the … according to Bloomberg calculations made using data from the Cocoa and Coffee Board. Production of robusta, which is used in instant coffee and espresso, declined …
DJ SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day – Marketwatch
Central Cameroon Cocoa Prices Fall As Supplies Rise -Farmers YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Dow Jones)–Farmers are being paid 890-960 CFA francs ($1.82-$1.97) for a kilogram of cocoa beans sold this week, down from XAF980-1,010/kg two weeks ago …
