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Author:
Walters, Dale, author.
Title:
Chocolate crisis : climate change and other threats to the future of cacao / Dale Walters.
Publisher:
University of Florida Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subject:
Chocolate industry.
Cacao--Climatic factors.
Crops and climate.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Cocoa trade--Forecasting.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Food of the Gods -- Chocolate Can Be Good for You -- Chocolate Is a Product of the Cacao Tree -- Transforming Cacao Beans into Chocolate Bars -- Small but Deadly -- Witches' Broom -- Frosty Pod Rot -- Swollen Shoots -- Vascular Trouble -- Sap Suckers -- Cacao Borers -- Going Underground -- Cacao, Shade, and Agroforestry -- Cacao in a Changing Climate -- Chocolate: Luxury and Livelihood
Summary:
"Addressing the threatened future of chocolate in our modern world, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1683401670
9781683401674
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1155330304
LCCN:
2020023711
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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