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. |
 In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that killed thousands and displaced more than a million. A year after a power transfer, has anything changed? |
 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.” |
 Stephen Sapienza, Ameto Akpe, and Peter Sawyer present reporting on water access in West Africa and gold mining in Peru at Nerinx Hall High School in Webster Groves, MO. |
 Campus Consortium Partner George Washington University convenes symposium on "Moving the Planet Forward." |
 As part of the latest Campus Consortium visit to SIUC, filmmaker Stephen Sapienza focuses on the environmental and sociopolitical factors contributing to Peru's gold rush. |
 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. |