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Cacao, Colombia, and the craft chocolate challenge

Sweetness follows? Colombia’s craft chocolate challenge

Colombia is making a name for itself in the rapidly growing craft chocolate market. The government sees cacao as a transition crop in the peace process. But while consumers benefit from tasty new treats, many farmers have yet to see an upside. Opening up to a new market opens them up to new challenges. Farmers will need ...

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Bogotá Bonsai

Bonsai? In Bogotá? Chalk up this discovery to those things that you just come across when you're just out walking. A Saturday afternoon along the 9th, on the way to the Santa Ana mall for a stocking of the larders courtesy of our friends at Jumbo. The 9th - at least our section of it - is a rather nondescript road - one ...