Blogs
Empowering the community: The success story of Captain Polo in Piura, Peru
Since 2023, the Clima-LoCa project has implemented a strategy to disseminate and communicate the effects of climate change in the Piura region of Peru. Thanks to coordinated work with Alan Hesse of the Captain Polo Academy, a well-known author of graphic novels on the...
Climate-LoCa in the featured stories of the DESIRA LIFT initiative
The Andean region, comprising Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, is recognized worldwide for its production of fine aroma cocoa. However, these countries face a crucial challenge: the presence of cadmium (Cd) in the soils where cocoa is grown, a heavy metal that poses...
Boyacá: The closing tour of the Clima-LoCa project in Colombia begins
On April 29 and 30, 2025, the municipality of San Pablo de Borbur hosted the first event of the closing tour of the Clima-LoCa project. This meeting brought together producers, researchers, public institutions, and chocolate companies to share the lessons learned,...
Clima-LoCa shares key findings with cocoa farmers in Piura, Peru
In the Piura region of northern Peru, the Clima-LoCa project has developed fertilization pilots to increase productivity on more than 120 plots of land belonging to cocoa producers, using fertilization plans carefully developed according to soil analyses for each...
Field Day and Results Sharing in Yacopí, Cundinamarca, Colombia
From May 5 to 6, an event was held in the municipality of Yacopí, Cundinamarca, to share the results of the Clima-LoCa project. More than 90 farmers and cocoa producers participated in this meeting, where the results of cadmium content mapping in soils were presented....
Consolidation of Knowledge and Strategies for Cadmium Management in Cocoa: Annual Clima-LoCa Workshop in Colombia
Between February 5 and 7, 2025, the Clima-LoCa team met in Palmira, Colombia, to review progress, share results, and plan the final dissemination phase of the project. This workshop, coordinated by the Bioversity Alliance and CIAT and with the participation of leading...
Cocoa Income: A Regional Analysis in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
Comparative analysis reveals the complexity of achieving decent incomes in cocoa production systems in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru A comprehensive comparative study of 15 cocoa production systems in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru reveals that economic viability and the...
Clima-Loca expert collaborators interviewed by Anecacao – Ecuador
Three researchers from the Bioversity International Alliance and CIAT, collaborators on the Clima-Loca project, were interviewed by the National Association of Cocoa Exporters of Ecuador (Anecacao) in December 2024. They are Julien Simonis, leader of the Cacao of...
Clima-LoCa promotes initiative to develop Regional Cadmium Map for Cocoa Soils in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
The Clima-LoCa project, led by the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT , is spearheading an initiative to strengthen national capacities in digital soil mapping (DSM) and support the generation of maps of cadmium and physicochemical properties in soils in the cocoa-growing areas...