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Dr Dominic Martin
@Dominic_Mart
Geographer & ecologist working on land systems & conservation PostDoc @uzh_geo & @Wyss_for_Nature PhD @Diversity_Turn #vanilla 🇲🇬 Editor @PLOSSustain
May 26, 2020 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
#Vanilla prices are likely the most volatile of any agricultural commodity.

After a 5-year boom, prices seem to crash this year.

Time for a thread 🧵on vanilla price volatility, the impact of high prices on smallholders in #Madagascar and what might happen now. 👇👇👇 ImageImageImage #Madagascar is the largest producer of vanilla today, accounting for roughly 40% of the global harvest.

Almost all Malagasy vanilla is farmed by smallholders in the north-east of the country in agroforestry systems.

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