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The shaded cocoa cropping system found throughout West Africa but particularly well represented in Cameroon and Nigeria is a sustainable agricultural land use system that provides relatively high values of environmental services. This paper describes and quantifies some of its non-cocoa economic...
The forest cover in Central Africa is less degraded than in West Africa, where cocoa cultivation has contributed to deforestation. In contrast, cocoa production in southern Cameroon (Central Africa) uses natural forest management (cultivation in natural shade) by smallholders. Cocoa farmers use...
The results of a programme to develop a market for organic cocoa in rural Uganda are presented. It is shown that the scheme had a strong and persistent positive welfare effect. The primary mechanism is that of adoption of quality-enhancing methods. The scheme achieved this through an “Exogenous...
This literature review aims to identify climate‐friendly agricultural practices (CFPs) for coffee, cocoa, and tea that (a) reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the use of land, machinery and chemicals, (b) lead to an increase of on‐farm carbon stocks, and/or (c) improve the...
The CATIE-GTZ-INRENARE agroforestry project in Panama and Costa Rica started operations in 1986; shade management in cocoa plantations was identified as a major research line. Five cacao-based agroforestry systems were selected for research: 1) leguminous tree species (Gliricidia sepium,...
The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins has conducted biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional research on the tradeoffs associated with alternative land uses in the humid tropics. Building on previous research at the ASB benchmark sites, this paper presents spatially-explicit...
A case study of cocoa intensification and the Cocobod High Tech program was conducted by the Sustainable Tree Crops Program of IITA in 2011 to better understand the potential of the intensified perennial tree production systems as a potential tool for addressing rural poverty and climate change...
In this December 2009 issue of Global Research on Cocoa attention is paid to alternative use of pesticides. Pesticides remain an essential tool for cocoa farmers, but legislative changes around the world are restricting what can be used, and how. Examples are given of how researchers are...
In Cameroon, black pod disease can cause 80% losses in cacao farms when farms are left untreated by chemical fungicides. But heavy use of chemicals can cause disease resistance, non-target effects on beneficial microorganisms, humans and environment. And chemical fungicides prices are getting...
Can a ‘double green revolution’, using new seed technologies and also non-cocoa trees and organic fertiliser be promoted? This paper outlines the three options (production area expansion, green revolution, double green revolution) to see which way the future of cocoa production lies.
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