In Ecuador, small farmers produce 80 percent of the country's cocoa beans, while the rest are grown by larger plantations. The beans, the seed of the fruit of the cocoa tree, are dried under the ...

Researchers analysed pottery vessels from the Santa Ana (La Florida) archaeological site in the highlands of Ecuador ... sweet potatoes and the cacao tree Theobroma cacao. Traces of chemicals ...

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans (cocoa ... colleagues analyzed residues from 352 ceramic items from 19 pre-Colombian cultures spanning from approximately 5,900 to 400 years ago across ...

Environmental disruptions due to climate change are causing cacao trees to die ... the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and Peru. Together they produce about 90% of the ...

Based on archeological finds, it’s thought that people from Ecuador’s ancient Mayo-Chinchipe culture ingested a cacao-based substance as far back as 3,300 BCE. However, it’s not until the ...