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A study was carried out in Ondo State, Nigeria, to evaluate the conservation value of cocoa agroforests. Cocoa agroforests are a common farming system in the humid zone of West and Central Africa, in which forest trees provide shade and other environmental services as well as marketable products...
From March 2005 to October 2007, a study was conducted in the Eastern Region of Ghana to estimate the magnitude of carbon stored in different cocoa agroforestry ecosystems (remnant forest, traditional shaded cocoa farms with indigenous trees species and intensive un-shaded cocoa farms almost...
The productivity of all species in 39 cacao agroforestry systems (AFS) of Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous communities in Bocas del Toro, Panama, was determined. Annual Net Cash Flow (NCF) and Family Benefit (FB) were calculated. Bocatorean cacao AFS include 139 planted and naturally occurring species,...
Cocoa-based agroforests provide habitats for some forest dependent species and play a largely undocumented role in providing other ecosystem services. The structure and productivity of 36 cocoa agroforests in Talamanca, Costa Rica, were characterized. Changes in vegetation structure reflected...
Data from Cameroon show that improved tenure security over cocoa fields increases farmers’ consumption and welfare, but at the expense of more deforestation. The introduction of new cocoa varieties with faster maturity and higher input response also unambiguously raises farmers’ consumption and...
The current trend to reduce or eliminate shade cover in cocoa farming raises concerns about the potential loss of biodiversity. Few studies have assessed the ecological consequences and economic trade-offs under different management options in cocoa plantations. The authors in this article...
This article describes the evaluation of opposing land use strategies in cacao agroforestry in Sulawesi, Indonesia, by using data on species richness of nine plant and animal taxa, six related ecosystem functions, and on socioeconomic drivers of agroforestry expansion. Expansion of cacao...
Ghana is well endowed with premium bulk cocoa and is strategically positioned to capture significant market shares for the growing demand in specialty cocoa products on the world
market. Consumers’ taste and preference for differentiated or ‘specialty’ cocoa based on environmental- and...
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