Excerpt from teaonews.co.nz
The Pacific Island of Rapanui (Easter Island) is asking for countries with big pockets to invest in growing cacao beans on the island.
Rapan Nui has seen a huge decline in its ecosystem and sees this investment as a way to help fund solutions to its climate change issues.
Mana Rapanui Foundation president Erity Teave Hey says investments by bigger countries would provide financial support to start building plantations for more food growth.
“We’ve decided to plant coffee, which we recommend for the whole Pacific.
My foundation has done research, and we found and identified that the Pacific has a lot of coffee and a great variety of premium quality because we have the best weather to plant coffee.”
