In pictures: The small-scale farmers tending to Mother Earth
Meet some of the rural people who are listening to Mother Earth’s call, tending to the natural world and reaping bountiful rewards.
Chocolate comes in all shapes and forms, but it all needs one vital ingredient. Cocoa. A decade ago it was predicted that by 2020 the world would have shortfall of one million tonnes a year.
IFAD and its partners in Indonesia set up a scheme to train local small estate farmers to be cocoa doctors. Improving the health of their plants and, in the process, the economic prospects for local farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia.