Role and status of plantain in agroforestry systems of South West Cameroon : Which pathways to productive and sustainable system?

Achard Raphaël, Malézieux Eric, Robin Paul, Ganry Jacky. 2004. Role and status of plantain in agroforestry systems of South West Cameroon : Which pathways to productive and sustainable system?. In : Sustainability of horticultural systems in the 21st century : a proceedings of the XXVI International horticultural congress, Toronto, Canada, 11-17 August, 2002. Bertschinger Lukas (ed.), Anderson J.D. (ed.). ISHS, CSHS. Louvain : ISHS [Belgique], 101-108. (Acta Horticulturae, 638) ISBN 90-6605-707-6 International Horticultural Congress. 26, Toronto, Canada, 11 Août 2002/17 Août 2002.

Résumé : South West of Cameroon is usually cultivated with cocoa as cashcrop. The farmers incomes are affected by variations of the cocoa price and perturbations of the local economy. The two ways to survive are diversification of cocoa plantations with plantain and other varied foodcrops or extension of foodcrops by clearing and burning the forest. The high number of cropped species and technical practices means complexity. The main target is to identify the cropping systems which would be satisfactory on the agronomical, environmental and economical point of view. Twenty associations related to species composition are observed from 200 plots, within 15 villages, in 6 microregions. It shows a high number of cocoa-based associations with other perennials and mostly plantain as a main foodcrops. The historical analysis points out the status of plantain as the main crop after deforestation in association with perennials or food crops authorizing an adaptative strategy. His description first step focuses mainly on the types of associations then on the types of successions. It is a prior study for a sustainability analysis.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : petite exploitation agricole, Theobroma cacao, système de culture, diversification, culture en mélange, déboisement, banane plantain

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Cameroun

Classification Agris : F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture

Auteurs et affiliations

• Achard Raphaël, CIRAD-FLHOR-BPA (FRA)
• Malézieux Eric, CIRAD-DG-DS (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-5706-9610
• Robin Paul, INRA (FRA)
• Ganry Jacky, CIRAD-FLHOR-DIR (FRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/531774/)

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