Cocoa Harvesting (4)

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Family getting ready to walk to farm and harvest cocoa. Pot is for cooking lunch. Abekro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010.











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During the dry period, the harvest is pretty meager. Here, a mother and her children harvest the pods. Abekro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010







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Collection of pods is dropped at the site where the pods are broken open. Abekro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010






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Father and sons break open the pods and pull out the seeds. Abekro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010.









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Composted cocoa pod shells. Abekro, Côte d'Ivoire, 2010.