Blogs
Clima-LoCa Boosts Small-Scale Agriculture in Putumayo: The Transformation of Don Cupertino’s Farm, a Story to Be Told
Cupertino Enriquez Bravo is one of the farmers who highlighted the support provided by the project: "I think that the good results on my farm have been because I am always willing to let myself be helped, what the engineers recommend to me, that is what I do". Read...
Knowing some of the implementation activities of the genetics component
The use of cultivars or grafts that can provide a solution to the cadmium problem is one of the alternatives being evaluated in one of the components of the Clima-LoCa project. Thus, the genetics component is being implemented by regional and international...
Soil Health Assessment Training
From May 8-12, researchers and agronomists from the Clima-LoCa project and the Alliance gathered at our campus in Palmira, Colombia, to participate in a workshop that allowed them to learn the fundamental concepts related to soil health and its assessment. This...
From the great green war to cocoa peace
Some years ago I heard for the first time and without much detail about the conflicts for the control of the emerald mines that took place during several decades in western Boyacá; the so-called "green wars'' that add one more chapter to the long list of tragic events...
A team that cultivates innovations on traditional cocoa-growing land
Researchers, technicians, partners from different organizations and external advisors of the Clima-LoCa project traveled from different destinations to meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador, for the same purpose: to analyze the progress and results obtained so far by this...
Clima-LoCa in 2022
This year that is coming to an end marks the reactivation of a project that has brought with it several advances and results that we would like to share with you. Lets read the voices of some of the many collaborators and researchers who made it possible for the...
“Cost vs. benefit has been one of the great challenges”
In our conversation with Johanna Renckens de Rikolto, coordinator of the EU co-financed Road to the Reactivation of Agrifood Ecuador (CREA, for its acronym in Spanish) project, she explains why profitability is a determining factor when evaluating the implications of...
“We are dedicated to exporting cocoa derivatives almost 90%”
We talked to Julio Zambrano who is in charge of Chocolates Finos Nacionales, a company born from the dream and vision of his father, Carlos Zambrano, nearly 60 years ago when he was still a young 18-year-old entrepreneur who decided to bet on the Ecuadorian gold...
The Cacao Blanco produced in Piura, 1.000 kilometers from Lima, is one of the most famous and sought after in the country
In the northwest of the country, in an area of 1,318 hectares, 2% of the national production, grows white cocoa, native and with several national and international awards. Distinctions that have been accompanied by the care and dedicated work of producers who are part...