It’s been reported that climate change is the reason for record high chocolate prices, but what’s received less attention is the root cause of the problem. Chocolate costs more now due to decades of ...

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 ...

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Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The event “Cocoa and Chocolate Fair : Territorial Development and Agroforestry-based on Cacao” will present the outcomes and lessons learned of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) for “AGROCACAO: ...

By Timothy J. Killeen The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through ...

Coffee and cocoa farmers often grow avocado and mango as part of sustainable agroforestry systems - but these are vulnerable to climate change and should be swapped for more resilient crops, according ...