Enabling poor rural people
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Indonesia: A Chance for Chocolate

It's Easter - a time when Americans buy more than 30 million kilograms of chocolate! But will chocaholics always be able to get their fix? Cocoa supplies are dwindling and it's predicted that by 2020, chocolate companies will be short of 1 million tons of cocoa. To solve this problem, Mars chocolate company has partnered with Indonesian cocoa farmers to produce more and better cocoa.

Duration: 4’30’’
Producer: Joanne Levitan

In this episode: After devastating floods, Indonesian farmers learn how to diversify their incomes; an innovative project in Tunisia helps farming communities fight unemployment and poverty; and a pilot project in Kenya supports dairy farmers in their fight against animal diseases.


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