[MPWG] Sustainable Cacao

[Gena Fleming]

Here's some links about great wisdom prevailing towards healing problems in
the cacao industry.


Seeds of Change supports sustainable cacao farming:
http://www.seedsofchangefoods.com/organic_living/sustainability.aspx

"The FONMSOEAM Center for Sustainable Development and Conservation of
Natural Resources is an initiative to organize small cacao farmers and
integrate them with local conservation organizations  towards the common
goal of increasing revenues and awareness of a sustainable and
environmentally healthy crop."  :
http://www.greatwilderness.org/projects-reserves/bilsa-project.html

"If you can produce a major cash crop like cacao in an understory with a mix
of other crops, and all of them together giving you a system to keep your
climate regulated, your soils healthy, to provide compost material, etc.,
that’s a pretty viable system."
http://www.theworld.org/2010/05/18/cacao-crops-waning/


Take Heart!

all the best,

Gena Fleming
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