From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing ‘trade-ons’ for ‘land maxing’

Leakey, Roger R.B.

doi:10.1007/s00425-019-03128-z

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“…Additionally, as its contribution to the Bonn Challenge through the AFR100 initiative [5], the country has pledged to restore five million hectares of degraded land and to reconstitute three million ha of the forest by 2030. One priority intervention of this initiative is to enrich agricultural landscapes by planting high-value trees through a new forest code (Law No Tree planting on farms or degraded land is recognized as an efficient strategy to improve human welfare through the provision of edible fruits, nuts, leaves and fuelwood, and cash from the sale of these products, while also sequestering carbon to mitigate climate change [6][7][8][9]. However, to minimize undesirable outcomes, such as increased social inequity and invasion by alien species [10], the design and implementation of tree planting programs should be carefully considered.…”

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Rebuilding Tree Cover in Deforested Cocoa Landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire: Factors Affecting the Choice of Species Planted

Atangana¹,

Gnangoh²,

Yao³

et al. 2021

Forests

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Intensive cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s leading cocoa producer, has grown at the expense of forest cover. To reverse this trend, the country has adopted a “zero deforestation” agricultural policy and committed to rehabilitating its forest cover through the planting of high-value tree species in cocoa landscapes using a participatory approach. However, little is known regarding the factors influencing farmers’ introduction of high-value tree species to cocoa landscapes. We tested the hypothesis that ten previously reported factors to influence agroforestry system adoption to predict the number and choice of tree species that farmers introduce to cocoa farms. We interviewed 683 households in the cocoa-producing zone of Côte d’Ivoire and counted tree species on their cocoa farms. On average, two tree species were recorded per surveyed farm. Generalized Poisson regression models revealed that, in the cocoa production area, experience in tree planting and expected benefits, including income and food, influence tree species introduction through planting or “retention” when clearing land for cocoa establishment. The age of the farmer also influenced (p = 0.017) farmers’ tree species planting on cocoa farms. Fewer tree species were introduced into current intensive cocoa-production areas than in “old cocoa-loops” and forested areas. The number of tree species introduced to cocoa farms increased with expected benefits and experience in tree planting. The number of planted tree species also increased with farmers’ age. Tree species were mostly selected for the provision of shade to cocoa, production of useful tree products (38%), and income from the sale of these products (7%). Fruit tree species were the most planted, while timber tree species were mostly spared when clearing land for cocoa production.

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Rebuilding Tree Cover in Deforested Cocoa Landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire: Factors Affecting the Choice of Species Planted

Atangana¹,

Gnangoh²,

Yao³

et al. 2021

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“…These methods of increasing agricultural land are common to other crops as well and they have been observed in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Where farmers opt to practice polyculture, there are increased advantages of reduced weeding requirements, increased access to mulching materials (especially the leaves from other crops), reduced pests and disease attacks, and provision of green manures [59,60,[70][71][72][73]. Besides, passion fruits in polycultures can benefit from the nitrogen fixed by legumes.…”

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“…Land tenure security has a great influence on land resource development through the adoption of new agricultural technologies [3,[68][69][70][71][72]. This may comprise ventures directed at improving soil quality through the use of organic fertilizers, the set up of irrigation systems, and practicing agroforestry.…”

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Land Access in the Development of Horticultural Crops in East Africa. A Case Study of Passion Fruit in Burundi, Kenya, and Rwanda

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Rapid population growth in fertile agricultural lands of East Africa creates land scarcity, which has become a major hindrance to land access for the introduction of new horticultural crops. But their introduction in these areas is increasing, because of their high market price, which improves farmers’ income. As such, this research evaluated land access dynamics (availability, acquisition, and use changes) on the introduction of passion fruits in East Africa. The study used purposeful sampling to collect information from 171 passion fruit farmers from Burundi (60), Kenya (51), and Rwanda (60) through interviews during field surveys. Among the respondents from all three countries, inheritance and land purchase were the predominant modes of land access (>50% and >21%, respectively). Furthermore, the substitution of other crops by passion fruits was high (>60%) among Kenyan and Rwandan farmers, but low (18%) among Burundian farmers. Our findings indicate that land access influences the patterns of adoption of new crops, since, when limited in supply, it may require the acquisition of new land space, abandonment of other crops, or opting for mixed farming. As such, land access should be a consideration in the promotion of new crops for sustainable agricultural ventures.

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“…Advanced tools such as genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics have been applied to a limited number of orphan crops (Rathi et al 2019b, a;Sood et al 2019;Joshi et al 2019). Innovative cropping systems (Leakey 2019) and value-chain approaches involving social scientists (Bachewe et al 2019) are also being reported.…”

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“…Similarly, legumes which are a rich source of protein for the poor are represented by bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea)(Mayes et al 2019), grass pea (Lathyrus sativus)(Lambein et al 2019; Rathi et al 2019a, b), rice bean (Vigna umbellata)(Pattanayak et al 2019), horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum)(Aditya et al 2019) and winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)(Tanzi et al 2019). In addition, leafy vegetable (Gynandropsis gynandra)(Sogbohossou et al 2019) and Cinderella species(Leakey 2019) are also included in the issue.…”

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From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing ‘trade-ons’ for ‘land maxing’

Cited by 33 publications

References 164 publications

Rebuilding Tree Cover in Deforested Cocoa Landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire: Factors Affecting the Choice of Species Planted

Rebuilding Tree Cover in Deforested Cocoa Landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire: Factors Affecting the Choice of Species Planted

Land Access in the Development of Horticultural Crops in East Africa. A Case Study of Passion Fruit in Burundi, Kenya, and Rwanda

Promoting orphan crops research and development

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