As Colombia is known for coffee, and Chile for it’s fine wine, Ecuador is the king of fine chocolate, known as Cacao. What’s incredible about the industry is that chocolatiers from the world ...

VANCOUVER, CANADA—The Guardian reports that members of the Mayo Chinchipe culture, who lived in what is now Ecuador, made a beverage with the seeds of the cacao tree about 1,500 years earlier ...

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate. Cesar Guillermo Tapia Bastidas, head of Ecuador's national department of ...

Shawn Askinosie, owner of a gourmet chocolate factory located on Commercial Street in Springfield, Missouri, sources his cacao beans directly from farmers in Ecuador, the Amazon, the Philippines ...

The Cedeño family home, surrounded by the Tesoro Escondido forests and fine-aroma cacao farms, in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador. Image courtesy of the Washu Project. These social and economic ...