Cacao agroforestry systems have higher return on labor compared to full-sun monocultures
| hal.structure.identifier | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau [FiBL] | |
| dc.contributor.author | ARMENGOT, Laura | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère [UMR ISPA] | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau [FiBL] | |
| dc.contributor.author | BARBIERI, Pietro | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau [FiBL] | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | |
| dc.contributor.author | ANDRES, Christian | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Ecotop Consult | |
| dc.contributor.author | MILZ, Joachim | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau [FiBL] | |
| dc.contributor.author | SCHNEIDER, Monika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-08T12:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-08T12:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1774-0746 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/196561 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | The global demand for cacao has recently increased. To meet this demand, the cultivated area has been expanded in tropical forest areas and production has intensified by replacing traditional agroforestry systems with monocultures. This has led to a loss of biodiversity in cacao-growing areas. More sustainable production systems such as agroforestry and organic managed systems are expected to yield less cacao, but by-crops and premium prices, respectively, might economically compensate for the lower yields. Here, we compared the productivity and the return on labor, that is the return per working day, of four different cacao production systems: agroforestry and monocultures under organic and conventional management. Cacao and by-crop yields, costs, revenues, and labor were registered during the first 5 years after establishment. Results show that cacao yields were, on average, 41% higher in monocultures, but the revenues derived from agroforestry by-crops economically overcompensated for this difference. Indeed, the return on labor across the years was roughly twice as high in the agroforestry systems compared to the monocultures. We found similar cacao yields and return on labor in conventional and organically managed agroforestry systems. However, in the monocultures, cacao yields were 48% lower under organic compared with conventional farming, but the return on labor was similar, mainly due to the higher costs associated to the conventional management. Overall, our findings show that cacao agroforestry systems have higher return on labor. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer Verlag/EDP Sciences/INRA | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ | |
| dc.subject | cacao | |
| dc.subject | productivité | |
| dc.subject | agroforesterie | |
| dc.subject | monoculture | |
| dc.subject | agriculture conventionnelle | |
| dc.subject | agriculture biologique | |
| dc.subject.en | Bolivie | |
| dc.subject.en | economic analysis | |
| dc.subject.en | labor demand | |
| dc.subject.en | long term experiment | |
| dc.subject.en | organic farming | |
| dc.subject.en | Theobroma cacao L. | |
| dc.subject.en | cocoa | |
| dc.subject.en | single crop farming | |
| dc.subject.en | conventional agriculture | |
| dc.title.en | Cacao agroforestry systems have higher return on labor compared to full-sun monocultures | |
| dc.type | Article de revue | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s13593-016-0406-6 | |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences du Vivant [q-bio] | |
| bordeaux.journal | Agronomy for Sustainable Development | |
| bordeaux.page | 10 p. | |
| bordeaux.volume | 36 | |
| bordeaux.hal.laboratories | Interactions Soil Plant Atmosphere (ISPA) - UMR 1391 | * |
| bordeaux.issue | 4 | |
| bordeaux.institution | Bordeaux Sciences Agro | |
| bordeaux.institution | INRAE | |
| bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
| hal.identifier | hal-01602437 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.popular | non | |
| hal.audience | Non spécifiée | |
| hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-01602437v1 | |
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