Economic performance of cocoa agroforestry systems in southern Bahia, Brazil
(2024) Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024 — Location: Göttingen, Germany (17.September.2024)
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- Cocoa is an important agricultural commodity traded globally and with a constantly increasing demand. Cocoa production, however, is confronted with significant environmental and socio-economic challenges in tropical regions, due to its association with deforestation, biodiversity loss and prevailing poverty among farmers. To address these challenges, agroforestry has been proposed as a nature-based solution for promoting sustainability in the cocoa supply chain. However, many farmers are converting their shaded agroforests to more intensively managed systems by reducing the number of shade trees in an effort to secure short‐term income. This ongoing trend of management intensification jeopardizes the biodiversity conservation value of cacao agroforestry systems, while failing to ensure more stable household incomes. Understanding the economic performance of shade-tree management within cocoa agroforestry systems is crucial to address this challenge. While many studies compare cocoa agroforestry systems with monocultures, evidence on the economic effects of shade-tree management within agroforestry systems is lacking.
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Dekegel, S., De Vleeschouwer, K., Oliveira, L., & Van den Broeck, G. (2024). Economic performance of cocoa agroforestry systems in southern Bahia, Brazil. Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024, Göttingen, Germany. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/240541