To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry (commentary)

Mongabay
May 17, 2021, 11:52 am218 pts
In May 2017, the NGO Mighty Earth revealed the destruction of government forest reserves in Côte d’Ivoire by cocoa cultivation: out of 234, only six were still relatively intact. Deforestation outside reserves, largely due to cocoa, was also severe: 94% of Côte d’Ivoire ’s humid tropical forest was…

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