Bright, Chris.

Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back. / Chris Bright. - World Watch, 2001. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Article 60. Health, 1522-323X; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Originally Published: Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back, Nov./Dec. 2001; pp. 17-28.

"Our relationship with the chocolate tree is thousands of years old and it offers us much more than can be found in the cocoa commodity brand of realism. Cocoa may help us rejuvenate both the forests themselves--and our relationship to them. What is the promise in the velvet taste of chocolate? Food, forests, and life." (WORLD WATCH) This article examines the history of cocoa and cocoa production and reveals how organic cocoa farming could actually help benefit forest conservation efforts.

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Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
Cacao.
Chocolate.
Cocoa trade.
Forest conservation.
Fungal diseases of plants.
Rain forests--Brazil.


Mata Atlantica (Brazil)

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