“Our cacao tree flowers from about April until August, September, sometime around there — we have a long flowering window — and then it takes the pods probably about three or four months to ripe ...

Forcipomyia are only around one to three millimetres in length. This makes them the perfect size to access the hooded, pollen-producing anthers of the cocoa tree's small flowers. But there is a short ...

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70 percent of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change ...