Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CHOCOLATE4LIFE (Achieving sustainable agriculture in African cacao through DNA metabarcoding and food web models)

Cocoa, which fuels the multi-billion dollar chocolate market, is grown in tropical rainforest—mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa on small, family owned farms. African farmers, which produce about 70% of cocoa worldwide, typically cannot afford pesticides, so they rely nature for...