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Venture capitalism for a tropical forest

Cocoa in the mata atlantica

Chris Bright ; Radhika Sarin

Buch

englisch

Bright, Chris (Verfasser/-in) DNB
Sarin, Radhika (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Worldwatch Paper

168

Worldwatch Institute

Washington, D.C.

2003

68 p.

978-1-878071-72-9

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the world's biological "hotspots," a region of extraordinary, and threatened, biodiversity. Saving the Atlantic Forest will require a variety of strategies. An approach described in this paper hinges on one of the world's favorite foods: cocoa. Cocoa is a major crop in Brazil, especially in the northeastern state of Bahia, where most cocoa is grown in a longstanding agroforestry system called cabruca. Because cocoa trees tolerate shade, cabruca permits preservation of much natural forest. But the cabruca system itself is now in decline. A revived and modernized form of cabruca would promote the ecological goal of forest restoration, the social goal of creating a strong and green rural economy, and the political goal of building an international consumer constituency for the endangered forest.

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