If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ecuador’s Jama-Coaque Reserve, home to a vibrant cloud forest ecosystem, is part of what may be the world’s most endangered tropical forest, of ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the 1990s, witches’ broom disease, a fungal outbreak, devastated cacao crops in the south of Brazil’s Bahia state, leaving many farms abandoned.
A study of 187 farms in Ecuador's Amazon found that cacao and coffee agroforestry and silvopastoral systems store 20 to 27 ...
Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70% of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change induced ...
Did you know chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown in some of the most biodiverse tropical landscapes on the planet? The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is farmed within biodiversity hotspots of West ...
Côte d'Ivoire planted more than 28 million trees for the purpose of forest regeneration. Ghana restored 9,488 ha of degraded forest and helped 4,302 farmers to register 50,344 forest trees; Cocoa and ...
The cultivation of coffee, cocoa and vanilla secures the income of many small-holder farmers and is also a driver of land-use change in many tropical countries. In particular, cultivation in ...
An artisanal cacao business and an agroforestry project are transforming the lives of women and preserving precious forest On the banks of the River Acará in the Brazilian Amazon, about 50km (31 miles ...
Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa sector faces persistent low and variable yields, influenced by social, agronomic, and ecological factors, which in turn drive agricultural expansion and deforestation. Integrated ...
From Dec. 30, cocoa graded for delivery against ICE's London contract needs EU deforestation checks run partly on a ...