Rows of young trees stretch toward the cloud-strewn sky at a plant nursery in Rantabe, a village abutting a bay on the northeastern end of Madagascar. Clove saplings sprouting glossy, bright green ...

Madagascar is the world’s biggest producer of vanilla, with the plant grown in agroforestry systems established in forests or on fallow lands. Conservationist Andriamanana Rabearivelo introduced a new ...

Many farmers are not aware of the value of vanilla beans whose market prices range from at least Sh60,000 to Sh70,000 a kilo. Vanilla beans are reported to be the second most expensive product in the ...