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Carbon Footprint: What is it and how to measure it?
(2013-08-12)
Timber species for shade in new and old cocoa fields
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) | DANIDA, Turrialba (Costa Rica) | GTZ, Eschborn (Alemania) | ICRAF, Nairobi (Kenya) | IUFRO, Viena (Austria), 1999)
Elucidating Pathways and Discourses Linking Cocoa Cultivation to Deforestation, Reforestation, and Tree Cover Change in Nicaragua and Peru
(2021-06-17)
Cocoa cultivation is labeled as a driver of both deforestation and reforestation, yet the extent of the phenomena varies at farm and landscape level and as a response to national and local contexts. In this study, we ...
Simulating the shading pattern of tree shade using shade motion 2.0
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2008)
ShadeMotion es un programa de cómputo diseñado para modelar la posición y movimiento de las sombras de árboles sobre el suelo. El usuario puede escoger cualquier distribución espacial de árboles dentro de una parcela ...
Shade tree identity rather than diversity influences soil macrofauna in cacao-based agroforestry systems
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Netherlands), 2021-09)
Humanity is facing a rapid decline in global biodiversity, caused mainly by tropical deforestation through industrial and smallholder agriculture. However, smallholder agriculture landscapes host areas containing home ...
ShadeMotion: the analysis of tree shade patterns tutorial
ShadeMotion 5.1.41 is a software application that calculates the number of hours of shade accumulated on each point (grid cell) on a plot due to the presence of trees, in any number, sizes and crown shapes and in any ...
Rehabilitation and renovation of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems. A review
(INRAE, París (France) ; Springer-Verlag France (Switzerland), 2021-10)
Cocoa farmers must decide on whether to rehabilitate (Rh) or to renovate (Re) a cocoa orchard when its productivity declines due to ageing, disease outbreaks or other causes. Deciding on Rh/Re is often a complex, expensive ...
Genotype–environment interactions shape leaf functional traits of cacao in agroforests
(Springer, Nueva York (Estados Unidos), 2021)
The outbreak of frosty (Moniliophthora roreri) and black pod (Phytophthora palmivora) in Central American cacao agroforests throughout the 1980s led to the breeding of Theobroma cacao clones resistant to these diseases. ...