You may have heard people refer to cacao seeds as cocoa beans and wondered if they’re the same thing. They are. And they’re not not beans either. They are the seed of a fruit. And you may have ...

Today, over 4.5 million tons of cocoa are consumed around the world every year. Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L. Cacao beans are the primary ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.

The main goal of the USAID/ USDA project, Cacao for Peace (CfP), is “to strengthen Colombia ... From Jun-2015 to Dec-2015, he was an undergraduate visiting scholar in the same department. During this ...

To this point, growing exports of cocoa, the processed form of cacao, have largely been achieved ... [while] yields [per hectare] stayed the same,” study co-author Marieke Sassen, a senior ...