A5042243876- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Forest ecology and management
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Coffee research and impacts
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Wood Treatment and Properties
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Fundación Miguel Lillo
2023
Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie
2023
The University of Melbourne
2017-2019
Cocoa agroforestry systems (AFS) provide multiple ecosystem services, which are influenced by features of the shade tree community. By strategically selecting and managing trees based on their functional traits, cocoa farmers can affect diversity AFS potentially enhance benefits they deliver. In this research, we applied trait ecology to better understand effect three services: carbon storage, soil fertility, provisioning other products. To achieve this, characterized 30 across a gradient...
Cocoa cultivation is labeled as a driver of both deforestation and reforestation, yet the extent phenomena varies at farm landscape level response to national local contexts. In this study, we documented main pathways contexts behind cocoa in two sites with different histories cultivation. We combined official statistics, land-use trajectory, satellite imagery, Q-analysis explore discourses country experts Nicaragua Peru. The Q-statements were based on an analysis set legal, institutional,...
A network of agronomists, researchers, and practitioners associated with cacao farming provided open access to their independent field trials across Latin America the Caribbean (LAC). centralized dataset was assembled using qualitative quantitative data from 25 experimental (hereafter referred as “CacaoFIT”) spanning several LAC agroecosystems. This used document main traits agroclimatic attributes cultivation model being tested within CacaoFIT network. By synthesizing an entire trials, this...
Cacao in Honduras is cultivated under traditional shade tree species (Inga sp., Erythrina Gliricidia sp.), fruit and timber deliberately planted or selected managed from natural regeneration. Typically, the canopy of these cacao plantations poorly resulting high density heavy shading, thus affecting yield performance overtime. We assessed 12 plots made up 15–35 useful trees with varying spacing 6 × 9, 9 8 10, 10 m. Initially, each plot consisted three components plus cacao. Plantain ( Musa x...
Cocoa attainable yields are affected by a complex of pests and diseases in particular agro-environment. Estimation yield loss is critical for agronomic economic decision-making at the farm level. For over 15 months, we monitored 1100 pods from six cocoa clones (PMCT-58, CC-137, CATIE-R1 CATIE-R4, ICS-95, CCN-51) to assess incidence elucidate their survival behavior. grow 12-year timber-based agroforestry plot (1330 plants ha -1 , 100 shade trees 65% cover), La Montaña, Turrialba, Costa Rica....
The suitability and profitability of coffee cultivation in Central America are at risk due to pest disease outbreaks, price fluctuations climate change. Proper shading is claimed be one the most promising practices seek sustainability better adapt change marginal areas. This study recorded compared cherry yields over a ten-year period from shaded (N-fixing-trees timber trees) agroforestry systems under different management regimes (conventional vs. organic) suboptimal site. Significant...
Abstract An estimated 3.41 million hectares of cocoa and 8.08 coffee are cultivated under shade trees i.e. in agroforestry systems. Shade canopies usually characterized terms tree density (N, ha-1), basal area (G, m2 ha-1) percent canopy cover (%C). This article shows that these variables have cross-compensation effects reduce their capacity to inform on the shading conditions understory. Density not directly related (and hence shading) need additional assumptions about both size...
Landscape approaches have been encouraged as a means of addressing the intricate challenges related to natural resource management and well-being land users/farmers. The study presents two mechanisms applied territory development: first, multi-stakeholder platform improve governance in reserve area (space/geographical dimension); second, how local cooperative can become learning network address land-use landscape issues. evaluates planning tool interventions project, aiming enhance...