Poverty, education and family health limit disease management and yields on smallholder cocoa farms in Bougainville

Poverty, education and family health limit disease management and yields on smallholder cocoa farms in Bougainville

Abstract Decades of research and training activities have not reduced crop disease or pest losses, increased average yields, or alleviated poverty among smallholder cocoa farmers. Failure has been variously attributed to farmer ignorance or indifference, sociocultural barriers, inappropriate technol...

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Main Authors: David Guest, James Butubu, Floris van Ogtrop, Jessica Hall, Grant Vinning, Merrilyn Walton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CABI 2023-01-01
Series:CABI One Health
Subjects:
smallholder farming
cocoa
labour productivity
malnutrition
poverty
Online Access:http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabionehealth.2023.0009

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