Household Economics of Cocoa Agroforestry: Costs and Benefits
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Household Economics of Cocoa Agroforestry : Costs and Benefits. / Boadi, Sylvester Afram; Bosselmann, Aske Skovmand; Owusu, Kwadwo; Asare, Richard; Olwig, Mette Fog.
Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Cocoa Farming in Ghana. red. / Mette Fog Olwig; Aske Skovmand Bosselmann; Kwadwo Owusu. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. s. 121-145.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Household Economics of Cocoa Agroforestry
T2 - Costs and Benefits
AU - Boadi, Sylvester Afram
AU - Bosselmann, Aske Skovmand
AU - Owusu, Kwadwo
AU - Asare, Richard
AU - Olwig, Mette Fog
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Current research suggests that cocoa agroforestry systems could offer stable yields, additional benefits and income from shade trees, despite potential added costs, such as from the purchase of insecticides. There is a paucity of profitability studies of different cocoa agroforestry systems. Only few of them go beyond a narrow focus on cocoa yields to model the entire agroforestry system and thus do not advance our understanding of the socio-economic value of other ecosystem goods. Based on survey data covering a thousand cocoa plots and group interviews with cocoa farmers, we explore the costs and benefits at the household level of including trees in cocoa systems. Comparing low and medium tree diversity systems, we find that income from cocoa beans, timber and fruit trees are higher and labour costs are lower in plots with medium diversity, while insecticide costs are lower on low-diversity plots. Overall, net benefits were higher on cocoa plots with higher tree diversity. Thus, cocoa agroforestry systems offer cost-reduction and income-improving advantages. Since cocoa systems vary among different agro-ecological zones in Ghana, we recommend that interventions aimed at increasing tree diversity consider the specific management practices of each farming household and the location in question.
AB - Current research suggests that cocoa agroforestry systems could offer stable yields, additional benefits and income from shade trees, despite potential added costs, such as from the purchase of insecticides. There is a paucity of profitability studies of different cocoa agroforestry systems. Only few of them go beyond a narrow focus on cocoa yields to model the entire agroforestry system and thus do not advance our understanding of the socio-economic value of other ecosystem goods. Based on survey data covering a thousand cocoa plots and group interviews with cocoa farmers, we explore the costs and benefits at the household level of including trees in cocoa systems. Comparing low and medium tree diversity systems, we find that income from cocoa beans, timber and fruit trees are higher and labour costs are lower in plots with medium diversity, while insecticide costs are lower on low-diversity plots. Overall, net benefits were higher on cocoa plots with higher tree diversity. Thus, cocoa agroforestry systems offer cost-reduction and income-improving advantages. Since cocoa systems vary among different agro-ecological zones in Ghana, we recommend that interventions aimed at increasing tree diversity consider the specific management practices of each farming household and the location in question.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-45635-0_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-45635-0_5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-031-45634-3
SP - 121
EP - 145
BT - Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation
A2 - Olwig, Mette Fog
A2 - Bosselmann, Aske Skovmand
A2 - Owusu, Kwadwo
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
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