Solutions Rainforest Alliance aims to help ethical growers get climate-smart Upgraded certification scheme, covering over 2 million farmers, will use technology to help them adapt to climate change, protect forests and spot social risks
Solutions www.washingtonpost.com Want a green Valentine’s Day gift? Don’t buy chocolate. Or roses It takes quite a bit of carbon to get these traditional tokens of romance from farm fields into your sweetheart’s hands.
Causes www.washingtonpost.com Mars Inc. vowed to stop deforestation in West Africa. It failed A decade after Mars and other chocolate makers vowed to stop rampant deforestation, the problem has gotten worse.
Sri Lankan tea farmers sense trouble brewing over glyphosate ban Tea farmers in Sri Lanka want their government to reauthorize the use of glyphosate for agriculture.