It is possible there may be too many ethical cocoa schemes out there. There’s Fairtrade and the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership. And the Good Inside Cocoa Programme, with Mars and Nestle on board. Is it all getting a bit too complicated? Do we have too much of this good thing?
Of rats, bamboo and semelparous mass flowering
Over at Ecosystem and Poverty, our friend and occasional guest contributor Andy is asking whether anyone has a use for bamboo flowering culms… BTW, thanks for linking to our latest posts, Andy.
Yet more potato salad
And part 38. “La papa es peruana.” Chileans unavailable for comment.
More hot cocoa
Never rains but it pours. Mars and Nestle jump on the ethical cacao bandwagon.
Fina and flavour cocoa
More countries admitted to tasty chocolate club.