Smart agroforestry for sustaining soil fertility and community livelihood

D Octavia, Murniati, S Suharti, A Hani… - Forest Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Smart Agroforestry (SAF) is believed to be one of the alternative solutions in implementing
sustainable forest management to achieve the community welfare. SAF provides agricultural …

Organic interventions conferring stress tolerance and crop quality in agroecosystems during the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

D Sarkar, PK Dubey, R Chaurasiya… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Excessive use of synthetic chemicals in conventional agriculture largely degraded the
agroecosystems that constitute approximately 40% of the global terrestrial ecosystems …

Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis

W Niether, J Jacobi, WJ Blaser, C Andres… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Scientific knowledge, societal debates, and industry commitments around sustainable cocoa
are increasing. Cocoa agroforestry systems are supposed to improve the sustainability of …

Agroforestry and organic agriculture

A Rosati, R Borek, S Canali - Agroforestry Systems, 2021 - Springer
Current conventional agriculture is considered unsustainable and inadequate to address
great societal challenges such as climate change, environmental pollution, food security …

[HTML][HTML] Do environmentally-friendly cocoa farms yield social and economic co-benefits?

L Tennhardt, G Lazzarini, R Weisshaidinger… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Downstream companies in chocolate supply chains are increasingly engaged in improving
the sustainability of cocoa production, which requires a multidimensional understanding of …

Emergy unsustainability index for agricultural systems assessment: A proposal based on the laws of thermodynamics

FD Artuzo, G Allegretti, OIB Santos, LX da Silva… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The anthropic effects of agriculture call for more sustainable systems. Agricultural
sustainability conventionally communicates an idea of perennity. However, the sustainability …

A review of small farmer land use and deforestation in tropical forest frontiers: Implications for conservation and sustainable livelihoods

D López-Carr - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on
the Earth's surface. This paper develops a conceptual model of factors underlying frontier …

[HTML][HTML] Influences of climate variability on cocoa health and productivity in agroforestry systems in Ghana

BK Asitoakor, R Asare, A Ræbild, HP Ravn… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
The susceptibility of cocoa to harsh climatic conditions is evident in cocoa growing areas in
Ghana, and climate distribution models show reduced cocoa suitability to climate change …

The cacao gene atlas: a transcriptome developmental atlas reveals highly tissue-specific and dynamically-regulated gene networks in Theobroma cacao L

E Kulesza, P Thomas, SF Prewitt, A Shalit-Kaneh… - BMC plant biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Theobroma cacao, the cocoa tree, is a tropical crop grown for its highly
valuable cocoa solids and fat which are the basis of a 200-billion-dollar annual chocolate …

Phytophthora theobromicola sp. nov.: A New Species Causing Black Pod Disease on Cacao in Brazil

J Decloquement, R Ramos-Sobrinho, SG Elias… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Black pod disease, caused by Phytophthora species, is among the main limiting factors of
cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) production. High incidence levels of black pod disease have …