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Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO2 emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa

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Title Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO2 emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa
 
Creator Gockowski, J.
Sonwa, D.J.
 
Subject land use
poverty
redd-plus
mitigation
fertilizers
intensification
deforestation
livelihoods
 
Description The Guinean rain forest (GRF) of West Africa, identified over 20 years ago as a global biodiversity hotspot, had reduced to 113,000 km2 at the start of the new millennium which was 18% of its original area. The principal driver of this environmental change has been the expansion of extensive smallholder agriculture. From 1988 to 2007, the area harvested in the GRF by smallholders of cocoa, cassava, and oil palm increased by 68,000 km2. Field results suggest a high potential for significantly increasing crop yields through increased application of seed-fertilizer technologies. Analyzing land-use change scenarios, it was estimated that had intensified cocoa technology, already developed in the 1960s, been pursued in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon that over 21,000 km2 of deforestation and forest degradation could have been avoided along with the emission of nearly 1.4 billion t of CO2. Addressing the low productivity of agriculture in the GRF should be one of the principal objectives of REDD climate mitigation programs.
 
Date 2010
2012-06-04T09:15:06Z
2012-06-04T09:15:06Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Gockowski, J., Sonwa, D.J. 2010. Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO2 emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa . Environmental Management 8 (2) :307-321. ISSN: 0364-152X.
0364-152X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20709
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/3370
 
Language en
 
Source Environmental Management