Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports ...

Humanity's love for chocolate relies on the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), which thrives under specific conditions such as high humidity and abundant rain. That's why production of cocoa is limit ...

Humanity's love for chocolate relies on the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), which thrives under specific conditions such as ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

Each year, lovebirds purchase about 58 million pounds of the stuff for Valentine’s Day, so why not you? After all, chocolate ...

Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning ‘God Food’, hence the tree’s modern generic Latin name Theobroma cacao, meaning ‘Food of the Gods’. The word Cacao was corrupted into the more ...