Drivers of cocoa yield and growth in young monoculture and agroforestry systems

Antonio Jesús Ariza-Salamanca, Rafael Mª. Navarro-Cerrillo, Jayne Crozier, Clare Stirling, Agnese Mancini, Wilma Blaser-Hart and Pablo González-Moreno

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 219, issue C

Abstract: The expansion of cocoa farming has been linked to deforestation and biodiversity loss in West Africa. Agroforestry systems could potentially increase the sustainability of cocoa production. However, despite the long history of cocoa cultivation in agroforestry systems, the exact mechanism or the combination of factors that drive cocoa growth and yield in these agroecosystems, especially at the cocoa establishment stage, is unclear.

Keywords: Cocoa agroforestry systems; Sustainable cocoa production; Plant interactions; Structural equation modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104044

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