The nursery is one of four opened in the region last year as part of an ongoing effort to promote agroforestry—the practice ...

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

However, it's important to recognise that while vanilla production is linked to deforestation, it is not the primary driver behind deforestation in the Sava region of Madagascar. "The deforestation ...

While this way of growing vanilla is helpful in times of climate change, this year, local producers lost the majority of their production due to the extreme heat in the region. Mexico belongs to the ...

Vanilla production in Papantla still boomed, however, in the late 1800s, fueled by the popularity of ice cream in the United States. Guatemala’s Debora Fadul, one of the ‘Top 100’ world’s ...

Vanilla isn’t the first ingredient to have been diminished by mass production — which made it more widely available, though as a pale shadow of itself — and then rehabilitated and revived in ...

It’s above me.” The production of pure vanilla extract is a time-consuming and laborious process, starting with harvesting, curing and drying the pods of the vanilla orchid, McGee says.

The indigenous Totonacs call vanilla caxixanth, meaning “hidden flower.” So how did this elusive orchid become synonymous with boring? The answer lies in mass production—and to understand ...

Instead, artificial vanilla flavoring is made in labs using guaiacol (a petrochemical by-product) or lignin (a natural compound found in wood or left over from paper production). This imitation ...