Eat Chocolate to Save a Rainforest
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Project builds biodiversity-rich cocoa agroforestry on formerly cleared land, establishing shade trees, fruits, medicinal plants and replanting rare giant trees to close canopy gaps; scientists and farmers restore 140 hectares restored so far and set up a cooperative that owns and protects farmers protect 1,000 hectares of rainforest. Economic tools are a direct value chain with pre-financing and premium payments, paying about twice the minimum organic fair trade price, which doubles cocoa yield per tree vs. monocultures.
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