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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO
2
emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa
Environmental Management, Volume 48, No. 2, Year 2011
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The Guinean rain forest (GRF) of West Africa, identified over 20 years ago as a global biodiversity hotspot, had reduced to 113,000 km 2 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 km 2. 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 km 2 of deforestation and forest degradation could have been avoided along with the emission of nearly 1.4 billion t of CO 2. Addressing the low productivity of agriculture in the GRF should be one of the principal objectives of REDD climate mitigation programs. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Gockowski, James
United Kingdom, Croydon
Iita/ghana C/o Iita Ltd.
Sonwa, Dénis Jean
Cameroon, Yaounde
Cifor
Statistics
Citations: 276
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s00267-010-9602-3
ISSN:
0364152X
e-ISSN:
14321009
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Cameroon
Ghana
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Nigeria