What is it about?
This article demonstrates that smallholder farmers take into consideration the value of biodiversity and other environmental factores when making land use decisions.
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Why is it important?
The articles provides good news to those concerned that higher profits will lead to the adoption of unstainable production practices as the non market ecological benefits also are important factors in encouraging smallholders to adopt agroforestry cacao production systems.
Perspectives
We created a new model, which provide a good basis to understand why smallholders would likely take into consideration ecological factors, specifically biodiversity, in making production decisions. The model shows why they would often prefer agrofoestry systems although monoculture production methods would be more profitable.
Dr Trent Duane Blare
International Potato Center
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This page is a summary of: Traditional vs. modern production systems: Price and nonmarket considerations of cacao producers in Northern Ecuador, Ecological Economics, September 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.03.010.
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