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Hannah Docter Loeb

As cocoa production in Liberia fosters mass deforestation, campaigners urge Europe to act

Producing cocoa takes a major toll on the environment. Farmers will often clear tropical forests to plant new trees, causing significant environmental damage. 

A new investigation from The Initiatives for Community Development and Forest (IDEF) Conservation Association, an Ivorian nonprofit organisation, demonstrates the wide scale of such deforestation in Liberia. 

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