Amazon RestoreTheobroma cacao is an understory tree native to the <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/Amazon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/rainforest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rainforest</a> where it grows and fruits in the dappled shade cast by ice-cream beans and other canopy trees. The cacao's showy pink flowers feed bees and other native pollinators, and the <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/cacao?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cacao</a> fruit is sweet and sour with a very pleasant and refreshing flavour. Any <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/FoodForest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodForest</a> in <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/Amazonia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amazonia</a> could get a boost of biodiversity benefits by including some cacao.<br>
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However, in <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/ecuador?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecuador</a> and many places throughout the tropics, commercial farms slash and burn the <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/jungle?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jungle</a> and plant huge monocultures of cacao in order to maximise profits. These monocultures open up the landscape to invasion by grass and other noxious weeds and leave the cacao trees highly susceptible to infections — problems that the growers control with toxic chemical fumigants that poison the soil and water, so the plantations are almost completely devoid of animal life.<br>
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Immediately after destroying the rainforest, people often grow maize first and sell it locally, then "convert existing agricultural land" to cacao plantation or cattle pasture and market their product as "deforestation-free" or other labels that command a premium in foreign markets. Do not fall for it. If you do not <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/GrowYourOwn?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrowYourOwn</a> then the <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/chocolate?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chocolate</a> bar or hot <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/cocoa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cocoa</a> that you consume is most likely a product of <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/deforestation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> in the <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/AmazonRainforest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmazonRainforest</a> or elsewhere.<br>
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Badass Fruiterrarist Land is a <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/reforestation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reforestation</a> effort reclaiming the lands cleared for cacao plantations and cattle pasture and transforming them into diverse and abundant <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/FruitForest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FruitForest</a> in order to restore a functional ecosystem while also securing <a href="https://gram.social/discover/tags/FoodFreedom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodFreedom</a> for the badass fruiterrarists who live here and protecting the habitat of the native animals from further destruction.<br>
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(In the meantime, we have a lot of cacao available to eat.)<br>
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