{"id":1281,"date":"2018-11-08T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:10:15","slug":"safeguarding-the-future-of-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/11\/08\/safeguarding-the-future-of-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding the future of chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1282\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1282 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/cacao2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/cacao2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/cacao2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/cacao2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/cacao2-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Andres et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The sustainable supply of cocoa beans is at stake due to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease, that has ravaged hundreds of millions of trees in West Africa. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-018-0538-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andres et al.<\/a> showed that farmers with better access to information, a larger farm, and more secure land tenure rights were more likely to adopt preventive measures against this disease. They recommend, therefore, to relay prevention information to Ghanaian cocoa farmers on local radio, TV stations or mobile devices to help limit the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-018-0538-y'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sustainable supply of cocoa beans is at stake due to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease, that has ravaged hundreds of millions of trees in West Africa. Scientists Andres et al. showed that farmers with better access to information, a larger farm, and more secure land tenure rights were more likely to adopt preventive &#8230; <a title=\"Safeguarding the future of chocolate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/11\/08\/safeguarding-the-future-of-chocolate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Safeguarding the future of chocolate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}