Over 11,000 people working on small Ivorian cocoa farms were surveyed.

Jubril, a retired police officer, managed the family's rubber and cocoa farm in Kogi State.

But the task of designing the small-scale cocoa farm of the future is daunting because little is known about how best to grow the trees.

Dr. Power noted that the species found on cocoa farms are not identical to those in natural forests.

But compared with the sterility of banana or oil palm plantations, for example, small, naturally shaded cocoa farms are havens of biodiversity.

"Sounds like a lot, but there are over six hundred thousand coffee and cocoa farms in this country."

There are approximately 4.5 million cocoa farms around the world.

The majority of cocoa farms are located in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Traditional cocoa farms are planted in the shade among other crops and trees.

One hundred percent indicated that they had been informed in advance that they were going to work on cocoa farms.