cocoa farms
Where cacao grows
Cocoa farms are agricultural operations where cacao trees are cultivated for their beans, the raw material for chocolate.
Most cocoa farms are small holdings in tropical regions of West Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia.
The term appears in discussions of chocolate production, fair trade practices, and child labor concerns: Many cocoa farms rely on family labor during harvest season.
- fair tradeEquitable exchange between parties
- drying racksStands for air-desiccating clothes
- sun dryingPreserving via natural light
- agroforestryTrees integrated with farming
- forest canopyUpper woodland leaf layer
farmer cooperatives · commodity markets · bean to bar · Ghana · indigenous knowledge · deforestation · harvest cycles · wet season · growing season · soil · climate adaptation · shade · gender equity · carbon sequestration · biodiversity hotspots · pod · pruning techniques · pest control
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
- tropical cropscacao pods, coffee cherry, coffee plant, robusta, criollo
- GhanaAccra, Ashanti, Gold Coast, Western, Central
- Ivory CoastAbidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, CFA franc, French language, tricolor flag
- Equatorial GuineaCFA franc
cocoa farmscoffee plantations
Commercial bean-growing operations
tea plantations · rubber plantations · banana plantations · palm oil plantations · rice paddies
cocoa farmsvirgin forest
Forest never harvested
rainforest · wilderness · nature reserves · industrial zones · urban centers