Colombia: For Sustainable Cacao Farming in Colombia, Going Organic Is Not Necessarily the Only Good Answer

Nov 27, 2019 | Maria Eliza Villarino, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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If there’s one word that encapsulates Colombia, it is diversity. You see that in its people, you see that in its climate, and you even see that in the way farmers cultivate cacao. As noted in an analysis on the opportunities emerging from cacao production to contribute toward peace conducted by CIAT and Purdue University, cacao farmers in Colombia come in different forms. Some members of the International Climate Initiative (IKI)-funded Sustainable Land Use System (SLUS) Project team saw this reality for themselves when they recently visited cacao-growing areas in the departments of Caquetá and Cesar.