Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea's cacao is grown almost entirely on Bioko, the island known in the colonial period as Fernando Po. Production peaked at roughly 46,000 tonnes in 1967, immediately before independence, and has fallen steeply since — to 5,751 tonnes in 1996, 4,783 in 1997, and 678 and 660 tonnes in 2013 and 2014.

Successive state and donor programmes have attempted a revival: a cacao plantations rehabilitation project, the DISCA crop-diversification and agricultural-services project from 1980, FED/STABEX between 1993 and 1997, and a project to reactivate the coffee and cocoa sectors. None has recovered the sector, with the decline attributed to the labour shortage that followed the socio-political conditions after independence.