Nahrung

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I recently purcha­sed vanilla in a grocery store in Luxem­bourg and could not help wonde­ring about the price: 4 – 6 EUR for a single pod of vanilla. Fasci­na­ted by this very expen­sive and very lonely vanilla pod in a glass vial I star­ted to investigate…

Mada­gas­kar is one of the poorest coun­tries on earth. Only 1 out of 4 km of roads are paved, around 75% of the popu­la­tion were esti­ma­ted to live below the inter­na­tio­nal poverty line of 1.90 USD in 2019. For 150 years, Mada­gas­car has steadily been expor­ting Vanilla to the world, until it recently provi­ded over 80% of world market.

Poor subsis­tence farmers growing the vanilla orchid in a mixed culture (agro­fo­res­try) used to earn a few dollars per kg through a very indus­trious process of hand-polli­na­ting every single flower every single day for 3 months.

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