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Subject: This Colombian Chocolate Cooperative Is a Recipe for Peace
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January 16, 2021
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*Cooperative Chocolate: A Colombian Village’s Quest for Peace*
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AGOSTINO PETRONI
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When it’s time for harvest, Germán Graciano Posso, a 38-year-old Colombian
farmer, leaves his village, La Florencita, with a group of co-workers and
heads into the hills where the cacao trees grow surrounded by a lush
rainforest. Cacao pods the size of giant lemons hang off the trees’
branches: They come in various colors—green, red, and purple—but tend to
turn yellow when they ripen. Posso harvests the fruits by hand, cracks them
open with a machete, and collects the grape-sized seeds, which are covered
in a white, squishy casing. Then he places the seeds in a wooden box where
the casing undergoes a process of fermentation. Finally, Posso spreads out
the seeds on a flat surface to dry in the sun. After eight days of drying,
they will be ready to become chocolate.

This might seem a common agronomic practice, no different from the one
conducted by other cacao growers worldwide, yet it carries a greater
significance in this northwestern corner of Colombia.

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*The Dairy Farms Modeling Resilient Food Systems*
<https://yesmagazine.cmail20.com/t/d-l-cuikldy-ykdiuikyn-h/>ANDREW CARLSON &
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN &
SIMON LEVIN


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