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. Agroforestry practices have the potential to provide a viable climate change adaptation strategy for many farmers. The ecological … and economic benefits of agroforestry systems have been well studied, yet the extent to which agroforestry can enhance …-wave panel data set of 365 cocoa producing households and publicly available satellite climate data, we investigate whether the …
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In the context of persisting sustainability challenges in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain (GCCC), sustainability … responses transform the local economy. Taking the case of sustainability certification in the cocoa industry of Ghana, this …-linked pressures. In the Ghanaian cocoa sector, t sustainability certification became a key tool of competition for farmers among local …
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We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget …
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conditions in CA, followed by a discussion of forestry and agroforestry in CA's irrigated semi-arid and arid landscapes. The … agroforestry systems, regional forestry governance, and the market situation for timber products are discussed. Following data … motivated. However, the total land area of the various surveyed agroforestry systems on both private and rented land was the …
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Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses …
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Recognition of the importance of forests for local livelihoods, biodiversity and the climate system has spurred a growing interest in understanding the factors that drive forest-cover change. Forest transitions, the change from net deforestation to net reforestation, may follow different...
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Although agroforestry offers multiple benefits, its adoption by small-scale farmers remains low in some regions in … farmers' intrinsic drivers to adopt agroforestry based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Furthermore, it compares policy … instruments which address the intrinsic drivers to promote agroforestry adoption. Specifically, an agent-based simulation model …
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The present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score with continuous treatments was used to assess the...
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In the Sahel region, agroforestry potentially increases crop yields, alongside restoring and retaining soils …. Nonetheless, little is known about how diverse agroforestry systems perform across actual agricultural systems of smallholders in … the region. We therefore investigate how smallholders' different agroforestry systems in the Senegalese Groundnut Basin …
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Tropical root and tuber crops such as cocoyam ( Colocasia esculenta (L.)) are important for food security and livelihoods and yet neglected in climate change impact studies and large-scale crop improvement programs. The aim of this study was to apply the maximum entropy modelling approach to...
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