The Challenge of Chocolate and Forests

A big part of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana is due to cocoa, the main ingredient in your chocolate. Why is this happening and how is the Cocoa & Forests Initiative helping? Watch this video and learn how your chocolate can play its part in saving and restoring West Africa’s forests and stopping climate change.

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The simple answer is to consume less cacao, or at least selectively consume it.. Once animal agriculture is phased out and everyone lives off a plant based diet the animal feed dedicated crops and pasteures for grass-fed livestock can be reforested once again.This will leave more room for cacao plantations, although intensive farming of it will still exist. It is the same situation with avocados, the only way we can get rid of intensive monocrops is to simply use less.