Cacao cultivation and the conservation of biological diversity

Ambio

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 167-173

  Rice, Robert A ^a   Greenberg, Russell ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SMBC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; CULTIVATION;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0034088563     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-29.3.167     Document Type: Article

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64. For a comprehensive list of recommendations for such a program, see "The First International Workshop on Sustainable Cocoa Growing", available in the "Cocoa Corner" of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's website at 〈www.si.edu/smbc〉.
65. We thank the following people for providing us with information for this paper: Stephanie Daniels, Development Coordinator at the Organic Commodity Project in Cambridge, MA.; Alan Herre, researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama; B.K. Matlick, consultant in cacao industry; François Ruf, researcher at CIRAD, stationed in Côte d'Ivoire; John Lunde, Sustainable Cocoa Specialist for Mars, Inc.; Ed Ng, Commercial Staff Officer for Mars, Inc. We also appreciate the financial support provided by Mars, Inc. during the research and writing of this paper, and the help of all participants in the First Sustainable Workshop on Sustainable Cocoa Growing, Panama City, Panama, March 30-April 2, 1998
66. First submitted 25 May 1999. Accepted for publication after revision 13 Jan. 2000.