Previously, farmers and organizations under the Rainforest Alliance’s certification ... wet weather during the dry season as well as cocoa-tree diseases have hit harvests across West Africa ...

Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa ...

The trees grow best in rainforest conditions with high humidity ... worth of days above that threshold in nearly two-thirds of cacao-producing areas across Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon ...

Cocoa farming in West Africa is endangering ... while the adults rely on the sap of specific rainforest trees. Because of this, their presence is often a sign of a healthy forest.