Farmers in Ivory Coast are finding that rubber trees produce more and last longer than cocoa. Will rubber replace cocoa as the country's primary crop?
Global Goods, Local Costs
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 Ivory Coast produces 40 percent of the world's cocoa, but cocoa has been a bittersweet crop for the country. |
 The production of chocolate has long been linked with strife and bloodshed; the 2011 political fighting in the Ivory Coast was the latest chapter in cocoa's violent history. |
 Cocoa, a lucrative business in Ivory Coast, lies at the heart of the country's recent strife. |
 Guilford Student Fellow Keyla Beebe reflects on the killing of Wutty Chut, an environmental activist who opposed deforestation in Cambodia. |
 In Cambodia local human rights and environmental groups protest both illegal and legal logging that is fueled by government-granted “economic land concessions.” |
 A country with one of the worst deforestation rates in the world, Cambodia finds its forests depleted due in part to its population's reliance on wood fuel—and charcoal—as the main source of energy. |
 In Cambodia, the Aoral Wildlife Sanctuary is in danger of deforestation. Local villagers, who use and sell timber for a living, are forming volunteer groups to protect the land from illegal logging. |
 A system of legal deforestation in Cambodia may provide jobs and infrastructure, but the long-term environmental consequences could be devastating. |
 Pulitzer Center photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks to the Asia Society about his reporting projects on China's environmental problems and his experience as a freelance journalist in China. |
 Unregulated harvesting, excessive development and failed reforestation efforts are the main reasons why the forests of southwest China are endangered. |
 Equatorial Guinea, which recently co-hosted Africa's showcase soccer tournament, is a rich country, but a dictatorial regime has manged to keep its people locked down in a state of crippling poverty. |