Workers extract beans from cacao pods in

Workers extract beans from cacao pods in Mecicilandia, along the Trans-Amazon highway on May 31, 2012. A chocolate factory located along the Trans-Amazon highway in Medicilandia works as a sweet antidote to deforestation, one of the major issues of the UN Conference Rio+20 that begins next week in Brazil. "The Trans-Amazon highway was known for decades as an area of environmental crime, we have an image of destruction of the Amazon that we want change with this initiative," says Ademir Venturim, president of the cooperative of 40 small producers who work at the chocolate factory. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/GettyImages)