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

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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, distri...

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Peer reviewed

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10.3389/fsufs.2019.00057

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
Sub department:
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford college:
Balliol College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
SOGE
Sub department:
Environmental Change Institute
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Frontiers Media Publisher's website
Journal:
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Journal website
Volume:
3
Article number:
57
Publication date:
2019-07-23
Acceptance date:
2019-07-03
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EISSN:
2571-581X
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pubs:1078493
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uuid:1c546a96-7213-4465-98aa-d60a679cd27d
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pubs:1078493
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1078493
Deposit date:
2019-12-20

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