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When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee. Perhaps, if you’re feeling adventurous, a butterfly or a hummingbird. That’s a ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

World Cocoa Day was established in 2010 by the International Cocoa Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

This contrasts with traditional cocoa plantations elsewhere in Brazil and worldwide, where cocoa trees share space with other types of trees and get some shade.

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: Cacao trees don't naturally grow in Los Angeles.

Farmers can boost their crop yields without sacrificing the genetic diversity of the plants. Researchers develop unexpected method to protect the future of pantry staple: 'This is great news' first ...

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

The cacao tree, Theobroma cacao is a tree in the Malvaceae family that is native to the American tropics. Cacao was originally cultivated more than 5,000 years ago in what is presently south east ...

Cacao trees are grown in regions within 10 degrees north and south of the equator where the climate is ideal for its cultivation.