With support provided by the state, cocoa and coffee are among the main perennial crops providing income to farmers living in the heart of the pristine forest of East Cameroon (Northern part of the Congo Basin). Regular in comes from these perennial crops have enabled farmers not to depend solely...
Sonwa, D.J.
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Weise, S.F.
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Adesina, A.A.
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Tchatat, M.
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Ndoye, O.
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Endamana, D.
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[Adaptations of cocoa and coffee farmers communities in the heart of remnant pristine forest of east Cameroon to institutional changes]
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Adaptations of cocoa and coffee farmers communities in the heart of remnant pristine forest of east Cameroon to institutional changes
The influence of weeds community composition and dynamics on groundnuts intercropped with
cassava was assessed in three different short fallow management systems, in the Forest Margins
Benchmark Area of southern Cameroon (Central Africa). Fallow management intensities, indicated through differi...
Ngobo, M.
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Weise, S.F.
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Mc Donald, M.
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[Influence of fallow landuse intensity on weed dynamics and crop yield in southern Cameroon]
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Influence of fallow landuse intensity on weed dynamics and crop yield in southern Cameroon
The participants at the Yaounde Roundtable in June 1999 concluded that research and technology transfer is a critical component of a regional Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP). Productivity enhancing and environmentally friendly technology will be critical to both the supply of tree crop prod...
Weise, S.F.
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[A conceptual framework for research and technology transfer to support sustainable tree crop development]
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A conceptual framework for research and technology transfer to support sustainable tree crop development
The shaded cocoa cropping system found throughout West Africa but particularly well represented in Cameroon and Nigeria is a sustainable agricultural land use system that provides relatively high values of environmental services. The paper describes and quantifies some of its non-cocoa economic a...
Gockowski, J.
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Weise, S.F.
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Sonwa, D.
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Tchatat, M.
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Ngobo, M.
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[Conservation because it pays: shaded Cocoa agroforests in West Africa]
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Conservation because it pays: shaded Cocoa agroforests in West Africa
Unlike Southeast Asia and the Amazon regions, where large-scale agricultural operations play an important role, most of the deforestation in the Congo basin is attributed to smallholder agriculturalists using extensive slash-and-burn techniques. Improved rural livelihoods are the key to poverty r...
Ngobo, M.
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Weise, S.F.
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Peters, M.
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[Integrating Research Results into Decision Making about Natural Resource Management at the Forestagriculture Interface: a Case Study in the Congo Basin]
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Integrating Research Results into Decision Making about Natural Resource Management at the Forestagriculture Interface: a Case Study in the Congo Basin