Cocoa

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• World Cocoa Foundation This organisation aims to encourage responsible sustainable cocoa farming and raise farmers’ incomes.
• The Food of the Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa Online illustrated book by Brandon Head on cocoa, its growth and cultivation, its manufacture and history.
• Theobroma cacao: The Tree of Life Photographs and information on the history of this tree, the necessary climate for its growth, the varieties available and its propagation.
• About Cocoa Information on growing this tropical tree with illustrated instructions for its propagation by budding. Also instructions for harvesting the crop and rejuvenating old trees.
• Cocoa Producers' Alliance Intergovernmental organization founded by Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, Ivory Coast and Cameroon, aiming to exchange information, increase cooperation, maintain supplies and promote consumption.
• International Cocoa Germplasm Database Information on ICGD, based at the University of Reading, UK.
• Witch’s Broom and Frosty Pods: Threats to World Cacao Production Article by Gareth Griffith on these two pathogens that have caused havoc in the cacao industry.
• International Cocoa Initiative Partnership between NGOs, labour unions, cocoa processors and the major chocolate brands with the aim of changing the way cocoa is grown.