With a gift for sensorial writing and a willingness to go the extra mile in search of his stories, Jacobsen breathes life into the global supply chains of farm-to-table tropical agriculture.

You might think chocolate comes in a few basic types and that's it, but the varieties and sub categories are more diverse.

Your favorite chocolate treat might be at risk in the future thanks to a virus that is savaging cacao trees. These cacao trees grow the all-important cocoa beans used to create chocolate.

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

Those methods include upping amounts of leaf litter to improve insect pollinator propagation, increasing the density of cacao tree plantings, utilizing taller native shade trees and limiting ...