Peter Mudiaga Etaware

Expanding the frontiers of global crop production using climate-smart agronomy: a detour from the century-old paradigm limiting expansion in cocoa farming beyond 20°N and 20°S of the equator

For over a century, cocoa production was widely believed to be restricted to latitude 20°N-20°S of the equator. This long-standing assumption dictated global cocoa production status, investments, researches, pests and disease control; and inadvertently tilted demand-supply curve, creating a regionalized marketing s...