By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to curb deforestation, research by a conservation g.
Regular rains are needed
from May in most of Ivory Coast s main cocoa-growing regions to
help the April-to-September mid-crop finish strong, farmers said
on Monday after receiving below-average rains.
SURVEYING the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea-coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down.
Farmers are clearing
forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are
trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining
European efforts to curb deforestation, research by.