Costa RicaStudents at CATIE learning how to collect germplasm in-vitro. Material spread out on table consists of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), coffee (Coffea sp.) and banana (Musa sp.). Collected material must be su...

United KingdomCocoa (Theobroma cacao) pods - fruit containing seeds which are recalcitrant in behaviour. They cannot be stored for more than a few weeks. Therefore cocoa is conserved in field genebanks which are th...

IndonesiaA worker collecting beans from a split cacao fruit. The beans will then be fermented and dried in the sun before being roasted and ground into chocolate. The enzymes activated by fermentation impart t...

BrazilWomen workers weed and clean around cacao trees in a plantation. - - General: General. Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of cocoa, which has a high food value, containing as much as 20% p...

BrazilWorker prunes the branches of a cacao tree with a machete. - - General: General. Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of cocoa, which has a high food value, containing as much as 20% protein...

BrazilA worker splits open newly harvested cacao fruits to collect the cocoa beans. - - General: General. Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of cocoa, which has a high food value, containing as...