A study carried out on smallholder farms in northern Peru shows that Blanco de Piura, a native fine-flavor cacao variety, can ...

Things were looking bleak for Vicenta González, the 73-year-old owner of a cacao plantation in northern Costa Rica, near the border with Nicaragua. Several years ago, the waters of a nearby river ...

Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George ...

A research team including Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter's Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology has investigated how the cultivation of cacao can be improved by using the right pollination ...

Cacao plantations in the Brazilian state of Pará have helped to recover about 150,000 hectares (370,660 acres) of degraded land in the last 25 years. The Brazilian government has supported ...

The Gola rainforest in West Africa, a biodiversity hotspot, is home to more than 400 species of wildlife, including endemic and threatened species, and more than 100 forest-dependent communities ...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this April, 2020 image provided by International Rights Advocates, children from Burkina Faso are seen resting while working on ...

Edna Norial (6th from left), owner of Love Nature Farm in Barangay Mabatobato, Lamut, Ifugao, receives the Outstanding Value Crops Farmer-Achiever award under the Plantation Crops Category during the ...