Completed Research Project
BMZ - Climate partnerships with Latin American municipalities: Goldkronach & Falán (Colombia)
Description:Due to climate change chocolate could soon become a luxury good. The cacao tree is dependend on certain climatic conditions, which are recently under drastic change. With the help of adapted farming-strategies and -techniques the resilience of the production can be improved. For the adaption to be attractive to producers it has to keep costs on a minimum level and offer different options to the producer to cover the expenses. On the example of the Columbian cacao-producers in the city Falán the study examines the following: a) How can the city reduce it's costs by coordination and the provision of services? b) How can a Fair-trade-certification help to cover the expenses of the adaption process? ...more |
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