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New presentation by GAIN. Roadmap to Nutrition Secure Cocoa Supply Chains. Business Case for Nutrition Security.

This study analyses factors that influence fertilizer use among cocoa farmers in the Sefwi Wiawso District in the Western Region, Ghana. Primary data were obtained from 200 cocoa farmers in the district. Descriptive statistics and ordinary least square regression analysis were used to analyse...

An inventory of options for crop diversification in smallholder cocoa farms is presented and the conditions for their promotion is discussed. Intercrops include vegetables, cassava, yam, cocoyam, papayas, plantain, maize, bananas, groundnuts, water melons. Using fruit trees as shade trees is...

A study to determine the financial profitability of cocoa agroforests enriched with domesticated trees was carried out in 2009. The study site was the Cocoa Production Basin of Centre Cameroon. Rationale: One of the main tree-based systems in the West and Central Africa region is the cocoa...

Floristic surveys were performed in 17 traditional cocoa forest gardens under different management regimes in the humid forest area of southern Cameroon, to assess the impact of intensification on plant biodiversity. It was found that management as practiced in traditional cocoa forest gardens...

In Ghana, the diversity and density of non-cocoa trees in cocoa farms is primarily the result of farmers’ managing natural processes of regeneration in forest-fallow systems. Tree diversity is therefore more a result of haphazard, uncoordinated decisions over a long period rather than advanced...

By providing technical information on the selection and management of forest trees in cocoa farms, as well as guided decision-making exercises about timber trees in cocoa farms, this manual provides an opportunity for adult learning within Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP)’s broader farmer...

The main objective of this paper is to show that under certain conditions cocoa may switch from a status of deforestation agent in the twentieth century to a reforestation agent in the twenty-first. In the meantime, less dependency upon primary or secondary forest probably means more...

Conservation because it pays: shaded cocoa agroforests in West Africa, Gockowski, James, Weise Stephan, Sonwa Denis, Tchatat M., and Ngobo Martine , National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC on February, 2004, Volume 10, Issue 2004, (2004)

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...

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