Farmers in Côte d’Ivoire value integrating tree diversity in cocoa for the provision of ecosystem services

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1047-1066

  Smith Dumont, E ^a,b   Gnahoua, G M ^c   Ohouo, L ^a   Sinclair, F L ^a,b   Vaast, P ^a,d  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre National de Recherche Agronomique Abidjan   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Eco certification; Local knowledge; Shade; Tree diversity; Tree suitability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; CERTIFICATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVERGREEN TREE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84912015723     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-014-9679-4     Document Type: Article

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