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 ...

When it comes to global vanilla production, Madagascar reigns in first place amongst all countries, producing 3,344 tons of ...

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

The announcement comes at a time when government involvement in market-leading vanilla countries like Madagascar and tariff ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ms. Nezhukumatathil is a professor at the University of Mississippi, a poet and the author of “Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees,” from which this essay is adapted. This essay is part ...