Countries

Cacao-producing countries in the index.

47 countries, 124 origins. Each country page collects its origins with a short overview.

Asia & Pacific Australia 1 origin A young origin near cacao's southern climatic limit Americas Belize 2 origins Smallholder Maya cacao and relic Criollo landraces Americas Bolivia 4 origins Organic cooperative cacao and rare wild Amazonian stands Americas Brazil 5 origins Bahia's historic cacao belt and a growing Amazon frontier Africa Cameroon 1 origin Central Africa's reddish-bean producer, often fire-dried Americas Colombia 7 origins Andean and Caribbean smallholder cacao, much of it post-conflict Americas Costa Rica 2 origins Indigenous-rooted smallholder cacao and agroforestry research Africa Côte d'Ivoire 1 origin The world's largest cacao origin, high-volume bulk beans Americas Cuba 1 origin Eastern smallholder cacao centred on Baracoa Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 2 origins Emerging organic origin of the eastern highlands Americas Dominican Republic 4 origins The Caribbean's organic-cacao powerhouse, fermented and unfermented Americas Ecuador 10 origins World's leading fine-flavour origin, from Nacional to CCN-51 Asia & Pacific Fiji 1 origin A revived island origin centred on Vanua Levu Africa Ghana 2 origins The classic bulk West African Amelonado, rigorously graded Americas Grenada 1 origin Small volcanic island estates with a tree-to-bar tradition Americas Guatemala 4 origins Maya-farmed agroforestry cacao across humid lowlands Africa Guinea 1 origin Minor producer of the forested southeast Americas Haiti 2 origins Smallholder agroforestry cacao moving toward fermented fine grades Americas Honduras 3 origins A rebuilt fine-flavour origin with Maya roots Asia & Pacific India 2 origins Smallholder shade-crop cacao under coconut and areca Asia & Pacific Indonesia 5 origins A major bulk producer turning selectively toward fine cocoa Americas Jamaica 1 origin Smallholder Trinitario shaped by central fermentaries Africa Liberia 1 origin Northern cocoa belt of ageing farms under rehabilitation Africa Madagascar 3 origins Vivid fruit-forward island cacao with rare Criollo heritage Asia & Pacific Malaysia 1 origin A former cocoa power undergoing a modest fine-flavour revival Americas Mexico 3 origins The ancestral Mesoamerican homeland of cultivated cacao Americas Nicaragua 4 origins An ICCO-recognised 100 percent fine-flavour origin Africa Nigeria 1 origin Long-established bulk producer of the southwestern states Americas Panama 2 origins Caribbean-coast cacao with deep Indigenous tradition Asia & Pacific Papua New Guinea 3 origins Melanesian smallholder cocoa, often distinctively smoky Americas Peru 9 origins Amazonian genetic diversity and a leading organic-cacao exporter Asia & Pacific Philippines 1 origin Mindanao-centred origin with a rising artisan sector Asia & Pacific Samoa 1 origin Island cocoa tied to the koko Samoa tradition Africa São Tomé and Príncipe 4 origins The historic 'Chocolate Islands' of the Gulf of Guinea Africa Sierra Leone 1 origin Smaller Eastern Province producer rebuilding post-conflict Asia & Pacific Solomon Islands 1 origin The country's main farm export, grown across many islands Asia & Pacific Sri Lanka 1 origin Mid-country smallholder cacao intercropped with coconut Americas St. Lucia 1 origin Volcanic-slope estate cacao with named terroir plots Africa Tanzania 3 origins Berry-forward East African beans from the south Asia & Pacific Thailand 1 origin Research-bred hybrids feeding a young bean-to-bar scene Africa Togo 1 origin Small upland Plateaux producer near the Ghanaian border Americas Trinidad and Tobago 2 origins Birthplace of Trinitario and home of the ICS clones Africa Uganda 1 origin Fruit-forward East African origin from the Semuliki Valley Asia & Pacific United States 2 origins Hawaii — the only US state where cacao fruits commercially Asia & Pacific Vanuatu 1 origin Pacific smallholder cocoa with a traditional smoky signature Americas Venezuela 10 origins Historic heartland of fine-flavour Criollo and Trinitario cacao Asia & Pacific Vietnam 4 origins A fast-changing young origin of fruity southern Trinitarios