CHOCOLATE TREEThe Chocolate Tree chronicles the natural and cultural history of Theobroma cacao and explores its ecological niche. Tracing cacao's "journey" out of the rain forest, into pre-Columbian gardens, and then onto plantations adjacent to rain forests, Allen M. Young describes the production of this essential crop, explaining how the seeds are extracted from the large, colorful pods. He details the environmental price of Europeanized cultivation, and ways that current reclamation efforts for New World rain forests can improve the natural ecology of the cacao tree. Recounting more than a dozen years of ecological fieldwork in and around cacao plantations in Costa Rica, Young reviews his research into the problem of poor levels of natural pollination on plantations. He recalls encounters with sloths, toucans, butterflies, giant tarantula hawk wasps, and other creatures found in cacao groves. Among these creatures Young discovered a tiny fly that provides a vital link between the chocolate tree and its original rain forest habitat. This discovery leads him to conclude that cacao trees in cultivation today may have lost their original insect pollinators due to the plants' long history of agricultural manipulation. |
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... religious and other services by the gompa for the nomads . The religious services performed will be considered in later chapters . Nonreligious services included mediation in disputes ( see Chapter 7 ) , the storage and trad- ing of ...
... religious and other services by the gompa for the nomads . The religious services performed will be considered in later chapters . Nonreligious services included mediation in disputes ( see Chapter 7 ) , the storage and trad- ing of ...
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... religious practitioners are characterized by variety and fluidity of roles . There was relatively little centralized con- trol over the religious system in premodern times . The Lhasa govern- ment in theory reserved the power to ...
... religious practitioners are characterized by variety and fluidity of roles . There was relatively little centralized con- trol over the religious system in premodern times . The Lhasa govern- ment in theory reserved the power to ...
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YOUNG ALLEN M. religious teachers . She estimates the total number of celibate religious practitioners in the region as about 900 ( it is not clear how this is di- vided among trapa and ani ) . Sakya : A Religious Estate In the same ...
YOUNG ALLEN M. religious teachers . She estimates the total number of celibate religious practitioners in the region as about 900 ( it is not clear how this is di- vided among trapa and ani ) . Sakya : A Religious Estate In the same ...
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The Cultivation of Cacao Past and Present | 14 |
Cacao and Agriculture in Costa Rica | 48 |
Excursions into the Natural History of Cacao and Cacao Plantations | 80 |
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