Gladys Medina’s cocoa tree

Gladys Medina

Gladys has been growing cocoa since 2008 on a family plot she bought from her grandfather, who grew rice there. She is the mother of two boys and works the two-hectare plantation with her husband and one of her sons. Gladys lives in Bagua, in the Peruvian jungle, in the Amazonas region. A rare cocoa grown using organic farming.