DIAGRO - Agrarian diagnosis and cocoa production potential of an (agro)forest in Côte d'Ivoire

Start
July 2019
End
February 2020
Project cost
30 000 €
Role in the project
Agrarian diagnosis expert
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Countries

Côte d’Ivoire

Fields

Agriculture Organic Agriculture Agroforestry Forest

Sectors

Eggplant Cocoa Coffee Cashew Hevea Corn

Partners

CONFIDENTIAL

Main goals

Study the possibilities of intervention of an integrated project inside and around an (agro) forest of 13,000 ha

Specific objectives

SO1. Establish a typology of farming systems in order to be able to define social safeguards adapted to the client strategy and to each type of producers
SO2. Estimate the amount of cocoa currently produced inside the forest and to explore the potential for organic cocoa marketing

Results

Activities

A1. Prepare a methodology for the agrarian diagnosis and elaborate the questionnaire
A2. Realize the survey to 80 producers in the field
A3. Analyze collected data
A4. Define the typology and links between agricultural production and deforestation
A5. Elaborate the recommandations to the client
A6. Estimate the cocoa current production

Related documents

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Pedagogical
Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Climate, Degradation-Restoration, Forest

Theoretical training on the basal area (surface terrière)

Rolande Ettien

Related people

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Project Manager / France

Noémie Rullier

Holder of an Engineering diploma in Agronomy, specializing in Sustainable agricultural & Agri-Food systems for the South, from Montpellier SupAgro- Institut des Régions Chaudes (IRC), she brings her expertise to support technical changes and development processes in rural area; to support farm advisory, training engineering and plant biology research

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Project Manager / Agriculture & Market / France

Benjamin Garnier

Agricultural Engineer, specialised in "quality of the environment and resources management", from the French National School of Agricultural Science and Engineering of Toulouse (INP ENSAT). He brings his expertise in feasibility studies for investment funds, agricultural markets studies and analysis of value chains

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