Insect-eating bats prefer cocoa farms that retain large, old-growth trees that mimic the natural forest conditions.

Work carried out at the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre in Arborfield, part of the University of Reading, is helping to keep the world's cocoa crops free of viruses. The greenhouses - about the ...

Cacao prices have increased in the last year and some farmers find it too hard to manage the costs of controlling more pests on their coffee crops as temperatures get warmer. “Historically ...

Climate change, pests and disease threaten to leave us in a world without chocolate. Dr Karl meets two scientists who are exploring ways to protect cacao plants into the future.