Chocolate crisis : climate change and other threats to the future of cacao / Dale Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walters, Dale, author.

Series:

Florida scholarship online.

Florida scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chocolate industry.

Cocoa trade.

Cacao--Climatic factors.

Cacao.

Cacao--Diseases and pests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2021.

Summary:

Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. Here, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree. Walters takes readers to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of South America, describing how ancient cultures used the beans produced by the plant, and follows the rise of chocolate as an international commodity over many centuries. He explains that most cacao is now grown on small family farms in Latin America, West Africa, and Indonesia, and that the crop is not easy to make a living from.

Contents:

Food of the Gods

Chocolate Can Be Good for You

Chocolate Is a Product of the Cacao Tree

Transforming Cacao Beans into Chocolate Bars

Small but Deadly

Witches' Broom

Frosty Pod Rot

Swollen Shoots

Vascular Trouble

Sap Suckers

Cacao Borers

Going Underground

Cacao, Shade, and Agroforestry

Cacao in a Changing Climate

Chocolate: Luxury and Livelihood

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

1-68340-282-0

1-68340-234-0

1-68340-194-8

OCLC:

1159603701