But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of “full-sun” monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.

Full-sun' monocrop Ivory Coast is by far the world's top grower, producing more than two million tonnes of cocoa beans in 2023, followed by Ghana at 650,000 tonnes. But the two countries had poor ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 ...

State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has garnered an international award from a regional research organization for its pioneering sustainability initiatives in the country, a top ...