Prospects of Agroforestry as Climate-smart Agricultural Strategy in Cocoa Landscapes: Perspectives of Farmers in Ghana
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Qualitative study of farmers' willingness to adopt agroforestry in Ghana.
This examines Ghanaian farmers' agroforestry adoption perspectives, not research practice.
Farmer adoption of cocoa agroforestry in Ghana; agricultural development study.
Abstract
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is increasingly being promoted by the international community to help farmers adapt to climate change and lift them out of poverty. An essential technique that is promoted under the climate- mitigating smart agriculture policy package to reduce forest loss is agroforestry—the planting of woody plants or trees into farming systems. Integrating agroforesty into cocoa landscapes, it is argued, create forest-like habitats which serves as faunal refuges, sequester carbon and therefore contribute to increasing agricultural productivity, resilience (adaptation) and removal of greenhouse gas emissions. This article uses a qualitative data collected from 100 households in seven communities around the Kakum National Park in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District in Ghana, where a climate-smart agriculture programme is being piloted. The study analysed the extent of willingness of farmers to participate in interventions that promote increased adoption of agroforestry in cocoa landscapes. The result shows that though farmers have favourable perception about the role of agroforestry on cocoa systems, and are willing to adopt the practice, this does not automatically translate into their willingness to participate in agroforestry program that was asking them to extend the number of trees currently maintained on their cocoa landscapes. The study further reveals that size of farms, the age and height of cocoa trees, extension support and the general ecology of the cocoa varieties as some of the reasons influencing whether the agroforestry practices promoted could be adopted or not.
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- Venue
- Sustainable Agriculture Research
- Topic
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Keywords
- AgroforestryAgricultureClimate changeProductivityGeographySustainabilityLivelihoodBusinessEcologyEnvironmental scienceEconomicsEconomic growth
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