Chocolate crisis : climate change and other threats to the future of cacao /
Dale Walters.
Bok Engelsk 2021
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| Utgitt | University Press of Florida
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (1 online resource)
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| Opplysninger | Also issued in print: 2021.. - Food of the Gods -- Chocolate Can Be Good for You -- Chocolate Is a Product of the Cacao Tree -- Transforming Cacao Beans into Chocolate Bars -- Small but Deadly -- Witches' Broom -- Frosty Pod Rot -- Swollen Shoots -- Vascular Trouble -- Sap Suckers -- Cacao Borers -- Going Underground -- Cacao, Shade, and Agroforestry -- Cacao in a Changing Climate -- Chocolate: Luxury and Livelihood. - Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. Here, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree. Walters takes readers to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of South America, describing how ancient cultures used the beans produced by the plant, and follows the rise of chocolate as an international commodity over many centuries. He explains that most cacao is now grown on small family farms in Latin America, West Africa, and Indonesia, and that the crop is not easy to make a living from.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 1-68340-194-8
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