Central America bets on climate-smart cocoa

Producers, exporters, and other members of the cocoa value chain, originating from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, managed in mato, for the first time to run the data from the farms where their cocoa is produced in the future, to know the behavior of the climate in the area, and to know how to act before they are affected by climate change. In the so-called tools for the promotion of climate-smart cocoa, cocoa producers and traders can obtain climate data projected at 30 and 50 years, which will allow them to know the impact of the environment on the site and the recommended agricultural practices in new circumstances. . "You can consult the aptitude results, impact gradient, and obtain a proposal of practices for adaptation to climate change in the territory of interest, as well as the reference costs for investment," said the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT ), Jenny Wiegel. A Honduran peasant woman on a cocoa farm. ...