Cacao News

By Stefan Struik In 1944, Benjamin H. Kean was a 32-year-old army surgeon stationed in the Panama Canal Zone by the US army. Later he would play a disputed role...

By Stefan Struik Many farmers of diary farms in the Netherlands, USA and Canada are no longer getting up at dawn to attach the milking machine to their cows. They have milk...

By Stefan Struik On 2 June 1603, Dutch admiral Joris van Spilbergen stood before King Vimaladharmasuriya I of Kandy (Ceylon, Sri lanka). Van Spilbergen had just arrived after a 12-months journey that brought him from...

   

By Stefan Struik It was a hot day in the year 1822 on the tiny Portuguese island São Tomé, 200 kilometers from mainland West Africa. Governor João Baptista de Silva...

Intro Born out of the minds of the Thai Chumphon Collective, Kamkav Farm joined the Asia Cacao Collective, based in Kuala Lumpur.    A Collective, not a Distributor The idea: selling cacao...

By Stefan Struik INTRO Until 1755 British people spoke of cacao, just like the rest of the world. So why did they change their pronunciation of this exquisite food? Is...

INTRO There were two attempts to introduce cocoa in Vietnam: at the end of the 19th century and at the end of the Cold War in the 1980s. They both...