Cocoa prices have recently reached record highs ... “Small scale gold mining has even more impact on farms where gold is ...

Ageing trees, climate change and disease outbreak are major setbacks affecting cocoa production in Africa where over 70 percent of ...

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of "full-sun" monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees. A recent ...

Evidence indicates that the cacao tree quickly spread along the Pacific coast after it was domesticated in the Amazon 5,000 years ago. Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like ...

We're hoping that through awareness raising and planting more[non-cocoa] trees on farms, that can lead to a more sustainable ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations ...

Those methods include upping amounts of leaf litter to improve insect pollinator propagation, increasing the density of cacao tree plantings, utilizing taller native shade trees and limiting ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organisations ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Cocoa trees are high maintenance: Grown only near the equator, they require a precise combination of steady ...

The fruit of the cocoa tree is a pod full of sweet pulp enfolding a cluster of about 20 to 40 cocoa seeds. Cocoa takes about two and a half years to mature and gives two harvests in a year.