Ipande, 25 km northwest of Kyela: In a small forest with cacao trees harvested a handful of cocoa pods. You will be hit, the nuclei (seeds) are removed and in the sun to dry. After one to two days in the blazing sun, they come together with many other cocoa beans in a large white bag that is dragged to the village square.
In the village square is a rickety old truck, which packs the beans of the village gathered to be part of space.
Kyela: The cocoa beans to the office of "Biolands" setting, the key buyers of cocoa beans in the region.
Mbeya, 210 km northwest of Kyela: All beans from the Mbeya region and are collected here with really big trucks on the journey to Dar-es-Salaam sent.
Dar es Salaam, 1000 km northwest of Kyela: The cocoa beans are loaded onto one of the largest container ships in port.
somewhere in Europe, 7000 km from Kyela: The cocoa beans are roasted and processed.
Dusseldorf, still far from Kyela: In a small company made pre-packed bags of chocolate.
Herford, still far away from Kyela: Mom buys at the supermarket the very pack of chocolate, they packed in a packet and send them to me, the way via Frankfurt and Dubai Airport up to Dar es Salaam ranges where the package is then given a bus in the direction Kyela.
Kyela, many days after harvest of the cocoa I drink my morning in the office gleefully called "Tanzania" Cocoa
PS: We now have cocoa which comes from Kenya. On the problem of the often insanely long distances traveled by products from Tanzania before arriving here, the changes again but of course nothing.
And fair, I must also say this that I do not know if Tanzanian cocoa in general Europe is, or whether, because grown only very few, not really just here in East Africa, is processed for example in Malawi and Kenya. But if it is not cocoa, then just tea, coffee, sisal, cotton or tobacco. The problem remains.
