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(Image: cocoa beans fermenting on the forest floor, under a cover of banana leaves) |
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Chemical CocoaContrary to popular belief, cocoa is usually grown using toxic agricultural pesticides.
(Image: the chemical structure of lindane, a persistent, bio-accumulating organochlorine insecticide still commonly used in the cocoa industry, even though it is banned in the US and EU) |
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(Image: the village Chief gives our plan to buy cocoa at a fair price the thumbs-up) |
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Meet the MallowsContrary to popular belief, cocoa isn’t related to coffee, coconut, coca, or carob.
(Image: Cocoa belongs to the mallow family, as does the balsa wood tree, Ochroma pyramidale) |
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(Image: cocoa is at home in the wet tropics; Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth) |
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(Image: a course of twelve chloroquine tablets to treat malaria costs AUD$2.93 – too expensive for most malaria sufferers) |
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(Image: Pierrick Chouard, the man behind the University of Chocolate, talks about cocoa in the field) |
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The Cocoa Communiqué
Lang & Sam meet some cocoa growers in a remote part of Vanuatu
Three reasons not to grow cocoa commercially in Australia
Sam becomes one of 500 million people to catch malaria in 2005
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