<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3deabf8c-e9bf-4986-9233-e04ec3af5e08/81519FD5-3CBD-4799-848C-C6B1E95E74AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/08/cacao-in-ecuador.php" href="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/08/cacao-in-ecuador.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.treehugger.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/08/cacao-in-ecuador.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.treehugger.com/img/32B0C3E4-A8C0-4EE6-8C03-A4F34B9CEA4D" alt="nocert-plantation.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/08/cacao-in-ecuador.php"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">When visiting Ecuador with the Rainforest Alliance, we visited a number of cacao farms and facilities, to learn the difference between conventional production and Rainforest Alliance Certified production, and to see it in action. It isn't just about how it is grown, but it is a continuum from clearing, planting and growing, through drying and marketing, that yields better cacao, more money for the farmer, more habitat for wildlife and less pressure to chop down more rainforest.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/08/cacao-in-ecuador.php"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">In a typical cacao plantation with hybrid cacao, there is no shade, no diversity. The land is clearcut, the soil tilled with insecticides and the trees planted in rows.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/81519FD5-3CBD-4799-848C-C6B1E95E74AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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