The increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers. A case study of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program targeting the small-scale cocoa producers in Côte d’Ivoire...
Muilerman, Sander
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Vellema, Sietze
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[Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire]
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Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire
Researchers now use information & communications technology (ICT) to gather information more effectively from the field. Sander Muilerman, Juanita Schläpfer and Eugenio Tisselli discuss how ICTs can also give them the possibility to help share knowledge in local communities.
Researchers now use ICTs to gather information more effectively from the field. ICTs also give them the possibility to help share knowledge in local communities.
STCP tools for the rehabilitation of West African cocoa farms
Cacao tree stocks in West Africa are mainly established from seeds procured
from farmers’ fields. This planting material lacks the disease tolerance and
yield potential of the hybrid seed. Productivity is also affected by the old age
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Bhattacharjee, R.
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Gockowski, J.
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Asare, R.
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Muilerman, Sander
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[A Green Revolution in the West African cocoa belt]
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A Green Revolution in the West African cocoa belt
Poor access to improved seeds in West and Central Africa has compromised crop yields and productivity as most farmers source the bulk of their seeds from informal channels. The use of farmer produced seeds has mostly resulted in high seedling mortality thereby presenting challenges to cocoa rehab...
Asare, R.
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Afari-Sefa, Victor
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Muilerman, Sander
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[Access to improved hybrid seeds in Ghana: Implications for establishment and rehabilitation of cocoa farms]
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Access to improved hybrid seeds in Ghana: Implications for establishment and rehabilitation of cocoa farms
In the humid lowlands of Africa, the expansion of extensive low-input agriculture is the most important driver of tropical deforestation and forest degradation with a negative impact on biodiversity and climate change (Norris et al. 2010; Phalan et al. 2011). A recent global analysis of the clima...