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| Armengot, Laura; Barbieri, Pietro; Andres, Christian; Milz, Joachim; Schneider, Monika. |
| The global demand for cacao has recently increased. To meet this demand, the cultivated area has been expanded in tropical forest areas and production has intensified by replacing traditional agroforestry systems with monocultures. This has led to a loss of biodiversity in cacao-growing areas. More sustainable production systems such as agroforestry and organic managed systems are expected to yield less cacao, but by-crops and premium prices, respectively, might economically compensate for the lower yields. Here, we compared the productivity and the return on labor, that is the return per working day, of four different cacao production systems: agroforestry and monocultures under organic and conventional management. Cacao and by-crop yields, costs,... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Bolivia. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/30968/1/Armengot_at_al_2016_ASD_art_10.1007_s13593-016-0406-6.pdf |
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| Armengot, Laura; Barbieri, Pietro; Andres, Christian; Milz, Joachim; Alcon, Freddy; Trujillo, German; Schneider, Monika. |
| Cocoa cropping systems vary from full-sun monocrops to highly diversified agroforestry systems, which combine the cocoa production with by-crop such as bananas or plantains and trees with different functions. Additionally, these systems can be organically or conventionally managed. Although labour demand is one of the main activities contributing to the total production costs of the plantations and it may highly differ between production systems, there are still scarce data and information available. In this study we present the labour demands of five different production systems in a newly established cocoa plantation in Alto Beni, Bolivia. The trial was established in 2008 within the framework of the SysCom programme (www.systems-comparison.fibl.org)... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Systems research and participatory research; Crop husbandry. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/29761/1/Armengot-etal-2015-Tropentag2015-abstract-313.pdf |
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| Barbieri, Pietro; Armengot, Laura; Milz, Joachim; Alcon, Freddy; Schneider, Monika. |
| Cocoa production systems can vary from a mono-cropping (MC) full sun plantation to a highly diversified successional agroforestry (SAFS). Mono-cropping is still the most common one but recently agroforestry (AF) systems have raised more interest because of their expected long term resilience. Nevertheless, information about the influence of cropping systems and management methods such as organic versus conventional in cocoa production and phenology in South America is missing. This study is based on the SysCom program’s framework located in Alto Beni (Bolivia), where three cropping system (MC, AF and SAFS) are compared. Additionally, MC and AF systems are conventionally and organically managed. A total of 12 cultivars including local clones, foreign... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Systems research and participatory research; Crop husbandry. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/29762/1/Barbieri-etal-2015-tropentag2015-p321.pdf |
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