by David Restrepo | Jul 3, 2025 | Dissemination, Updates
With the aim of promoting sustainable practices in cocoa production and mitigating the presence of cadmium (Cd), the CREA and Clima Lo-Ca projects, funded by the European Union, organized the technical workshop “Cadmium Mitigation Results and Strategies and Progress...
by David Restrepo | Jun 10, 2025 | Dissemination, Updates
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...
by David Restrepo | Jun 10, 2025 | Dissemination, Soil & climate, Updates
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...
by David Restrepo | Jun 8, 2025 | Dissemination, Socioeconomic
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,...
by David Restrepo | May 27, 2025 | Dissemination
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...
by David Restrepo | May 23, 2025 | Dissemination, Socioeconomic, Soil & climate
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....
