Planned and unplanned agroforestry systems in relation to social-economic changes: Cocoa combined with palm-wine in Côte d'Ivoire

Ruf François. 2007. Planned and unplanned agroforestry systems in relation to social-economic changes: Cocoa combined with palm-wine in Côte d'Ivoire. In : Second International Symposium on Multi-Strata agroforestry systems with perennial crops: Making ecosystem services count for farmers, consumers and the environment, September 17-21, 2007 Turrialba, Costa Rica. Oral and posters presentations. IUFRO, CIRAD, CATIE. Turrialba : CATIE, 12 p. International Symposium on Multi-Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops: Making Ecosystem Services Count for Farmers, Consumers and the Environment. 2, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 17 Septembre 2007/21 Septembre 2007.

Résumé : Wild oil palm growth is so vigorous that it may be almost considered as a 'weed' in neglected and abandoned cocoa farms. However, as in West-Africa, oil palm is highly valued for its production of palm wine, it may provide useful non-cocoa revenues. In the central-west region of Côte d'Ivoire, it especially played a major role in the 1990s when farmers simultaneously faced the impact of treeageing and the collapse of cocoa prices, hence of cocoa revenues. Wine tapping is here done only by cutting down palm trees. Does this 'agroforestry' system deserve its name? To answer the question from an economic perspective, the author evaluates the impact of this type of provisional or semi-permanent oil palm and cocoa association in terms of revenues and risks as well as in terms of life cycles and institutional changes.

Classification Agris : E16 - Économie de la production
F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
E90 - Structure agraire

Auteurs et affiliations

• Ruf François, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (GHA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4508-1185

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/540947/)

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