In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a ...

Home to countless bird, fish and plant species, the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe make up in wildlife what they lack in ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of sanitary pruning of cacao, pruning of shade trees and fertilization on cacao flowering and fruiting. The study was carried out in a 40-year old ...

The West African nation is the biggest producer of cocoa in the world, with farmers in the Bafing-Tonkpi region supplying chocolate to global markets, including the UK. But years of depressed prices ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) A farmer picks cocoa pods at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa ...

The company also provides financial support. A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Credit: AP/Dita ...

A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) ...

“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 ...

Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops against the bitter impacts of climate change.