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The traders supply Nigerian cocoa to some of the world's largest chocolate manufacturers including Mars Inc. and Ferrero, but because the chocolate supply
As part of the remarkable recent conference held in Oaxaca, Mexico on Food Self-Sufficiency and Agroecological Transition in a Multipolar World (November 28 – December 2, 2023), IATP organized an event with partners from Africa, Southeast Asia and Mexico focusing on a key aspect of agroecological transitions: farmers’ rights over their seed systems. Global rules and corporate dominance over seeds create huge challenges to local innovations, but these conditions also produce important stories of community resistance.
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Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his assistant clear low bushes that compete for sunlight with their cocoa trees, which have replaced the lush and dense natural foliage. Over the course of two visits and several days, The Associated Press repeatedly documented farmers harvesting cocoa beans where that work is banned in conservation areas of Omo Forest Reserve, a protecte...