Something delicious is happening in Brazil’s Bahia region. Here, where forests were once razed to make room for full-sun cocoa plantations, this corner of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest—one of the planet’s richest yet most threatened ecosystems—is now the site of a quiet agricultural revolution.

Farmers are bringing back cabruca , a traditional system where cocoa trees grow beneath a canopy of native species. The return of shade-grown cocoa is reviving biodiversity, restoring degraded lands, and reconnecting fragmented forest landscapes. The initiative aims to support 3,000 cocoa farmers and restore or improve nearly 1.85 million hectares of cabruca systems, avoiding an estimated 3.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

It’s a solution that blends tradition with innovation, and

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