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Cocoa farmers cut down trees for short-term gain, but keeping them is important – here’s why

By Olly Owen, Research Affiliate, Anthropology, University of Oxford
Zoe Brown, Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Biology., University of Oxford

The price of most chocolate bars has gone up worldwide in the past year, after cocoa bean prices rose dramatically in 2024.

As cocoa prices shot up, many farmers in tropical cocoa-producing countries including Nigeria saw profits rise.

With new cocoa farms opening up on the edges of the forested areas, trees…

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