{"id":836,"date":"2017-02-03T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=836"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:15:04","slug":"cacao-agroforestry-yields-similar-income-as-monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/02\/03\/cacao-agroforestry-yields-similar-income-as-monoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacao agroforestry yields similar income as monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-837\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-837 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/armengot-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/armengot-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/armengot-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/armengot.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Armengot et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tropical forests are dramatically decreasing. Management practices have also intensified, thus threatening biodiversity. A potential solution is agroforestry, that is the cultivation of shade trees within crops. Scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-016-0406-6\" target=\"_blank\">Armengot et al.<\/a> compared agroforestry and classical monoculture. They found that cacao yields were, on average, 41% higher in monocultures, but the revenues derived from agroforestry by-crops economically overcompensated for this difference.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-016-0406-6'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical forests are dramatically decreasing. Management practices have also intensified, thus threatening biodiversity. A potential solution is agroforestry, that is the cultivation of shade trees within crops. Scientists Armengot et al. compared agroforestry and classical monoculture. They found that cacao yields were, on average, 41% higher in monocultures, but the revenues derived from agroforestry by-crops &#8230; <a title=\"Cacao agroforestry yields similar income as monoculture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/02\/03\/cacao-agroforestry-yields-similar-income-as-monoculture\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cacao agroforestry yields similar income as monoculture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agroforestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}