This article by Chris Meyer was originally published by the Environmental Defense Fund Amazon indigenous communities have made […]
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By Jacob Olander Chocolate may be heavenly, but macambo seeds – from a cousin of the cacao tree – […]
By Jacob Olander On the table of Amaz, an award-winning restaurant in Lima, with a natural-meets-urban-sophistication vibe, a small […]
By Jacob Olander The price of vanilla beans is at a record high. With prices hitting $550-600 per kilogram […]
By Gabriela Albuja With CanopyBridge.com we aim to make it easier for buyers and sellers to find each other […]
By Jacob Olander For years, the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) has been emblematic of the idea that we can […]
Iván Ulchur-Rota Açai (Euterpe oleracea) is a small black fruit that hangs from tall palms of the lowland regions […]
By Iván Ulchur-Rota “Was there enough for everyone?”, I asked Estefy Baldeón, chef and Canopy Bridge consultant, about the […]
In the Amazon city of Iquitos, Peru, people eat camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) with salt when it is […]
Last month the World Cocoa Foundation issued a stern statement that the measures taken by the cocoa and chocolate industries and by the United States and West African governments, “have not been sufficient to achieve significant reductions in the number of children working in unacceptable conditions in West Africa, often in circumstances defined as child labor.”
