热博体育

Perspective, the 热博体育 policy brief

Perspective 54, 22 October 2020
Agroforestry is a credible option for sustainable cocoa growing in Africa. Farmers and technical advisors can manage cocoa agroforestry plantings using a straightforward indicator: the basal area of cocoa trees and associated trees.

Books and documents

• , Estelle Biénabe, Alain Rival, Denis Loeillet (ed.), Springer, 2017
• , Michel Barel, Quæ, 2016
• , Michel Barel, Quæ, 2015
• , François Ruf, Götz Schroth (ed.), Springer, 2015
• , Michel Barel, Quæ, 2013
• , Serge Volper, Quæ, 2011
• , Cilas C., Despréaux D., 热博体育, 2004.
• , Ed. Josiane Seghieri et Jean Michel Harmand. Quae, 2019
• , Argout Xavier, Martin Guillaume, Droc Gaëtan, Fouet Olivier, Labadie Karine, Rivals Eric, Aury Jean-Marc, Lanaud Claire. 2017. BMC Genomics, 18:730, 9 p.
• , Rapidel Bruno (ed.), DeClerck Fabrice (ed.), Le Coq Jean-François (ed.), Beer John (ed.). 2011. Londres : Earthscan Publications, 433 p.

Scientific websites

: Redrawing the future of the cocoa sector together
2020

01/2021
The BarCo project in Ivory Coast aims to develop and promote the use of hedges around cocoa plantings, to limit the spread of swollen shoot in disease foci. The hedges set up during replanting, after destroying infected plantings, act as plant barriers by reducing the capacity of the vector insects –  mealybugs – to transmit the disease.

01/2020
The aim is to have the tree crop biological resource centre (BRC) in French Guiana (PPG) certified and launch a tropical forest BRC, the French Guiana Biological Resource Centre: tropical tree crops for agriculture, research and product promotion.

Links

• (Roundtable for a Sustainable Cocoa Economy, ICCO, Ivory Coast)
• (International Cocoa Germplasm Database, United Kingdom)
• (European Cocoa Association, Belgium)
• (Federation of Cocoa Commerce, United Kingdom)
• (World Cocoa Foundation, United States)
• (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, United Kingdom)
• (German Initiative for Sustainable Cocoa, Germany)
• (Dutch initiative on Sustainable Cocoa, Netherlands)
• (Belgium)
• (Switzerland)

Scientific publications