Published in Agroforestry Systems
The sustainability of cocoa growing systems in the humid tropics is debatable. Socio-economic and technical data were obtained from 1,171 cocoa farmers and 1,638 cocoa plantations to assess the long-term dynamics of cocoa agroforests in central Cameroon since the beginning of the twentieth century. On-site, we estimated the age of the cocoa trees a...
In recent decades rural areas in the forest regions of West and Central Africa have been subject to rapid changes in their physical, social and economical environment. In some cases, local exploitation strategies have evolved towards agroforestry-based cropping systems like coffee and cocoa. The spatio-temporal dynamics of these systems are still p...
Agroforestry systems are generally characterized by several parameters, such as the number of plant species, the density of each species, or various biodiversity indexes. Many systems have a main crop, like coffee or cacao. In such systems, the ratio of the number of trees of the main crop to the total number of trees (the main crop plus the associ...
