Cocoa Farming Systems in Cameroon
The growing concern over the sustainability of cocoa farming systems has severe implications for global food security and cocoa farmers’ livelihood sustenance in rural communities in Africa. The rising global demand for cocoa beans and their byproducts is considered a crucial path to curb the poverty trap of cocoa farmers in rural areas through income generation from cocoa farming activities.
The growing concern over the sustainability of cocoa farming systems has severe implications for global food security and cocoa farmers’ livelihood sustenance in rural communities in Africa. The rising global demand for cocoa beans and their byproducts is considered a crucial path to curb the poverty trap of cocoa farmers in rural areas through income generation from cocoa farming activities.
Adopting and implementing sustainable management practices in the cocoa sector will increase cocoa output and alleviate poverty. However, researchers and policymakers have put little effort into place in Sub-Saharan Africa to address why farmers’ current attainable cocoa quality and yield levels are far below their potential yield levels. ASDEV carried out a study using household survey data from 201 cocoa farm households to probe into the different management practices farmers use to improve cocoa bean quality and quantity amidst existing climate challenges.
Adopting and implementing sustainable management practices in the cocoa sector will increase cocoa output and alleviate poverty. However, researchers and policymakers have put little effort into place in Sub-Saharan Africa to address why farmers’ current attainable cocoa quality and yield levels are far below their potential yield levels. ASDEV carried out a study using household survey data from 201 cocoa farm households to probe into the different management practices farmers use to improve cocoa bean quality and quantity amidst existing climate challenges.
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