SwePub
Sök i LIBRIS databas

  Utökad sökning

WFRF:(Quaye L)
 

Sökning: WFRF:(Quaye L) > The Ecological Limi...

  • Morel, Alexandra C.Zoological Society of London,University of Oxford (författare)

The Ecological Limits of Poverty Alleviation in an African Forest-Agriculture Landscape

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2019

Förlag, utgivningsår, omfång ...

  • 2019-07-23
  • Frontiers Media SA,2019

Nummerbeteckningar

  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:f63b4a88-6ffc-432e-83d3-255feed0814b
  • https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/f63b4a88-6ffc-432e-83d3-255feed0814bURI
  • https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00057DOI

Kompletterande språkuppgifter

  • Språk:engelska
  • Sammanfattning på:engelska

Ingår i deldatabas

Klassifikation

  • Ämneskategori:art swepub-publicationtype
  • Ämneskategori:ref swepub-contenttype

Anmärkningar

  • Cocoa yields in Ghana remain low. This has variously been attributed to low rates of fertilizer application, pollinator limitation, and particularly dry growing conditions. In this paper we use an African forest-agriculture landscape dominated by cocoa (Theobroma cacao) to develop an ecological production function, allowing us to identify key ecological and management limits acting on cocoa yields simultaneously. These included more consistent application of fertilizers inter-annually, distributing rotting biomass throughout the farm and reducing the incidence of capsid attacks. By relaxing these limits, we estimate plausible increases in yields and, by extension, farm incomes. Our analysis reveals that resulting increases in cocoa yields requiring both ecological and intensive management interventions could be significant (113 ± 60%); however, benefits are disproportionately realized by the wealthiest households. We found that wealthier households benefited proportionally more from ecological intensification methods (e.g., leaving more rotting biomass in their farms) and the poorest households benefited proportionally more from capital-intensive intensification methods (e.g., pesticide and fertilizer applications). We treated poverty as multi-dimensional, and show that only certain dimensions of poverty (school attendance, assets, and food security) are significantly related to cocoa incomes, while several other dimensions (access to clean water, sanitation and electricity, and infant mortality) are not. We explore how increased household cocoa incomes could impact different dimensions of poverty. Our findings suggest, that if all households adopted the optimal level of each of these management options, and in so doing had similar poverty profiles to those households already managing optimally, we would see the community-averaged probability: a child of a household misses school decrease from 47 to 31%, a household would be able to acquire assets increase from 40 to 59% and a household would have access to an adequate amount of food increase from 62 to 79%.

Ämnesord och genrebeteckningar

Biuppslag (personer, institutioner, konferenser, titlar ...)

  • Hirons, M.University of Oxford (författare)
  • Adu Sasu, MichaelNature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC Ghana) (författare)
  • Quaye, MarvinNature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC Ghana) (författare)
  • Ashley Asare, RebeccaNature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC Ghana) (författare)
  • Mason, JohnNature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC Ghana) (författare)
  • Adu-Bredu, StephenForestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) (författare)
  • Boyd, EmilyLund University,Lunds universitet,LUCSUS,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies),Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences(Swepub:lu)em6237bo (författare)
  • McDermott, Constance L.University of Oxford (författare)
  • Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z.University of Reading (författare)
  • Straser, RobertUniversity of California, Riverside (författare)
  • Malhi, YadvinderUniversity of Oxford (författare)
  • Norris, KenZoological Society of London (författare)
  • Zoological Society of LondonUniversity of Oxford (creator_code:org_t)

Sammanhörande titlar

  • Ingår i:Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems: Frontiers Media SA32571-581X

Internetlänk

Hitta via bibliotek

Till lärosätets databas

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.

 
pil uppåt Stäng

Kopiera och spara länken för att återkomma till aktuell vy