TOGO: ORGANIC COCOA
When I lived in Togo, I visited some cocoa cooperatives. On those visits, I saw how when a community organizes itself to work together, it can face many challenges. In Kpalime, a small town close to the Ghanian border, they manage to produce sustainable cocoa, improving the conditions and fertility of the land and protecting the ecosystem. It also helps them to position their product in the international market against cocoa from Ghana and Ivory Coast. However, this was not what impressed me the most, but that most of the farmers had never tasted the final product, chocolate.
You can watch here the images that I took for the Spanish journal El Pais, or you can read here the reportage of my colleague Marta Rey.
