And despite periods of political instability in Madagascar, which gained independence from France in 1960, as well as natural disasters, boom-and-bust growing cycles tied to market speculation, and ...

Rising global vanilla prices are pushing South Florida researchers and bakers to explore locally grown solutions for this ...

Spanish explorers took vanilla plants from Mexico back to Europe, but vanilla was not successfully grown in tropical European colonies until the 1800s, after a French scientist figured out that the ...