African cocoa farms may provide habitat for biodiversity, yet little is known about their suitability for vertebrate fauna, or the effect of farm management on animal communities. Here, we report the first inヾepth investigation into avian diversity and community composition in African cocoa, by ...
For many reasons, the cocoa trade in Côte d’Ivoire and Western Africa has been controversial. Often, farmers make about 5% of the retail price of a chocolate bar, and earn $1.20 each day. Adding to this, roughly a third of cocoa farms operate on forests that are meant to be protect...
Cocoa is a key raw material in our chocolate products. We have therefore partnered with Rainforest Alliance to ensure that the cocoa we use is sustainably farmed. The cocoa value chain is complex and comprises many links. Small cocoa farms in West Africa produce close to 70% of the world’...
Cocoa (Theobroma cacaoL.) is a crop of huge economic significance worldwide and is grown mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. Currently, West Africa produces most of the world's cocoa. The crop provides economic support to cocoa-growing countries, smallholder farmers, and the chocolate c...
Koa uses an innovative mobile solar-powered fruit-processing system. The system enables Koa to extract cocoa pulp right next to the cocoa farms, then buy it from the farmers on the same day. In just three hours, Koa pasteurizes and packages pulp-based juice and powder products, ready to ...
This is mostly seen in the Western North of Ghana, where many male farmers prefer to not register their marriages because of the perception of losing their farms to their wives in case they divorce. Thus, marriage is seen as negatively influencing land ownership. Given that the majority of ...
Also farmers who have many cocoa plots and have replanted their cocoa farms are to be targeted. These must not come alone but with appropriate training in good cocoa management practices through extension and existing cocoa based organisations. In addition to secondary income, efforts should be ...
根据第四段最后三句 Many small cacao farms in West Africa’s cocoa belt, which supplies up to 70 percent of the world’s cocoa, now suffer from low productivity. But there is hope. When cost and land tenure issues are solved, farmers are more than willing to grow cacao trees in the sh...
The abundance and inter-specific relations of common ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on cocoa farms in western Nigeria Following a demonstration of the role of ants in the dissemination ofPhytophthorapod rot and an intensive study of the ant mosaic on cocoa at the Cocoa Res... B Taylor,...
Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire produce about 60 percent of the world's cocoa output, but this comes with a heavy ecological price as the expansion of cocoa farms also means mass deforestation. Because productivity in West Africa ranges between 200 kg and 600 kg per hectare, farmers are compelled to...