Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa industry preps for an era of escalating climate impacts

Cecilia Keating
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Abdramane Ouedraogo in his cocoa farm | Credit: Cecilia Keating
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Abdramane Ouedraogo in his cocoa farm | Credit: Cecilia Keating

BusinessGreen reports from Côte d’Ivoire, where cocoa farmers and traders are racing to comply with EU deforestation legislation, as climate change wreaks havoc on the harvest

It's midday, and the sun is beating down on the cocoa plantation. Yellow, green, and violet pods protrude from branches and trunks, each roughly the size and toughness of a coconut, but the shape of a...

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