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2023 Empowering Chocopreneuers Networking Event

Join us for CocoaTown's 2023 Empowering Chocopreneuers Networking Event. It will be an interactive experience filled with community, collaboration, and engaging conversations. Your peer network can...

Meet Nettie Atkisson

After graduating with a BFA in photography, Nettie moved to New York City to do an internship with Maria Robledo, a photographer who played a big role in the natural light photography movement. Whi...

Light, Camera, Action

Join us for an inspiring and practical Empowering Chocopreneurs webinar with the talented chocolate educator, author and professional photographer Nettie Atkisson. Nettie will reveal the secrets to...

Moving Up the Value Chain

How can cocoa farmers break free from the commodity cycle and become thriving chocolate entrepreneurs? In the past, initiatives like Fair Trade certification have aimed to uplift cocoa prices, but ...

Empowered by Discomfort

We all face challenges. Yet the idea that challenges are problems is an outdated and harmful way to lead our lives. Challenges aren’t something to hide from, numb or avoid. They are flashing signs ...

Cacao Flavor: Think Outside the Box

Fresh cacao seeds are beautifully multidimensional and functional in their design and construction. And like all other seeds, the expression of their genetics is deeply influenced by their growing ...

Measure the Effectiveness of Your Online Presence

We all have websites. But how do we know how effective they are? Would you like to: Reach more customers for your business Understand more about how you can track the effectiveness of your online...

Collaborating Across the Cocoa Value Chain

We want stronger relationships with the cocoa-producing communities we source from, the companies and consumers we sell to, and everyone in between. But how? Join us for this INTERACTIVE session wh...

Presentado por: Albertus Eskes en Español: Nuevos Atributos del Cacao Fino, Fermentaciones y Subproductos

Estamos emocionados de anunciar que el investigador de cacao Albertus Eskes acordó presentar nuestro seminario web Empowering Chocopreneurs Atributos del Cacao Fino, Nuevas Fermentaciones y Subprod...

New Fine Cocoa Attributes, Fermentations and By-Products

Albretus will share about his discovery of 43 different flavors and aromas in fresh cocoa fruit, and 31 of them resembling known fruit and flower traits. Cocoa fruits themselves do not have a uniqu...