Ecuador’s Cocoa Boom Shows How Climate Change Is Redrawing Agriculture

-In the foothills outside the port city of Guayaquil, the economic capital of Ecuador, just 150 miles south of the equator, the landscape is dominated by the leafy green cacao plant. This is a ripe cacao fruit, right. -Yes, this is a ripe cacao fruit.[Thuds] -That's. wow. And these are.The beans are inside, right. -Yes, those are the beans, and around them it's the pulp. -This is a golden age of cocoa production in Ecuador, with output expected to reach 800,000 tons by 2030, more than double 2023 levels.The ...