Global warming has brought drought and hurricanes to the places that supply the world’s chocolate industry, and the trees that survive yield lower-quality fruit
Growing up in the verdant hill country of the Dominican Republic’s Duarte province, Marisol Villar and her four sisters used to receive a regular warning from their father: Whatever they did, they should never become a
But when her father died of leukemia in 2013, Ms. Villar decided to take over the family farm after all. “Our practices were killing the planet,” said Ms. Villar, 56, as she stood on her 13-hectare plot one sweltering spring afternoon. “We have to go back in time and relearn how to farm naturally.” Ms. Villar and her neighbours are rushing to adapt. They are planting more heat-resistant cocoa varietals, growing other fruits and vegetables to supplement their incomes, and expanding the forest cover on their land to reduce the amount of scorching sunlight. They don’t really have much choice: either mitigate the worst effects or give up producing one of the world’s most popular commodities.
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