Pay attention to perennial crops’ sustainable development potential, urge scientists
A cocoa plantation in Cameroon. Photo by Ollivier Girard / CIFOR-ICRAF Perennial woody crops—that is, those with a life cycle of at least three years, such as coffee, cocoa, grapevines, olive trees and oil palm—span about 183 million hectares across the planet, produce about a gigaton of food per year and are critical to diets … Read more