Driving Sustainable Intensification System on Cocoa Farming Practices
Journal Title: Asian Research Journal of Agriculture - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Agricultural development needs to pay more attention in the future in order to meet the rising demand of food due to the growing population rapidly in the world. On the other hand, increasing production is needed and land expansion will be considered if farm gate want to produce more food. Moreover, farming practices particulary in developing countries with 500 million smallholders in small-scale and poor-resource farmers are facing changing in climate wich has affected farm productivity. In the past, farming practices in developing countries has been pushed into intensification system without any concerns about environmental impacts. Thus, production has increased but resulting in land degradation, soil erosion, increasing GHG emission, and less ecosystem services. On the other word, this farming practices are not sustainable. Sustainable intensification is the new paradigma in farming practices with considering environmental impact without destruction the ecosystem to produce more food from the output use. This article discussed the potential benefits of future farming practices by performing a systematic review from body evidences elabotaring on sustainable intensification. Finally, this paper is intended to support the respective countries and the sectors in developing strategies for sustainable intensification. In summary, based on the study literature we found that cocoa agroforestry system combine with the indigenous technology suggest will be more sustainable for cocoa farming system.
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Julian Witjaksono, Musyadik .
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- DOI 10.9734/ARJA/2016/29623
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