{"id":360706,"date":"2010-02-24T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-acai-goes-industrial\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:07:46","slug":"from-staple-to-superfood-aa-goes-industrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360706","title":{"rendered":"From staple to superfood: a&#231;a&#237; goes industrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Philpott <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fruit was traditionally collected from wild palms. Now companies have a&ccedil;a&iacute; plantations, and collectors are raising more a&ccedil;a&iacute; palms on their land, according to Ant&ocirc;nio Cordeiro de Santana, an agricultural economist at the Rural Federal University of the Amazon. With cultivation more concentrated, resistance to disease and productivity have decreased, he said, even as the number of a&ccedil;a&iacute; palms in Par&aacute; has exploded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Seth Kugel, writing in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/24\/dining\/24acai.html?ref=dining&amp;pagewanted=all\"> The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/80-of-the-worlds-emissions-are-taking-steps-to-curb-their-global-warming-po\/\">80 percent of the world&#8217;s emissions are taking steps to curb their global warming pollution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/turning-the-copenhagen-accord-into-action-on-global-warming\/\">Turning the Copenhagen Accord into action on global warming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-01-where-things-stand-copenhagen-accord-international-climate\/\">Where things stand on the Copenhagen Accord and international climate politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7a3d624662f808197aed5643b423b9ff&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7a3d624662f808197aed5643b423b9ff&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Philpott &#8220;The fruit was traditionally collected from wild palms. Now companies have a&ccedil;a&iacute; plantations, and collectors are raising more a&ccedil;a&iacute; palms on their land, according to Ant&ocirc;nio Cordeiro de Santana, an agricultural economist at the Rural Federal University of the Amazon. With cultivation more concentrated, resistance to disease and productivity have decreased, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}