In Madagascar, soaring vanilla prices have a bittersweet cost
by ARYN BAKER/SAHABEVAVA
Jul 02, 2018
2 minutes
ON A RECENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN Sahabevava village, on the east coast of Madagascar, vanilla farmer Lydia Soa wielded a small wooden stamp studded with steel pins spelling out her producer number: MK021. Soa, 46, had recently branded thousands of green vanilla pods at her small plantation
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