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Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR-ICRAF publie chaque année plus de 750 publications sur l’agroforesterie, les forêts et le changement climatique, la restauration des paysages, les droits, la politique forestière et bien d’autres sujets encore, et ce dans plusieurs langues. .

CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Rubber Agroforestry: perspectives for smallholdings in Nigeria

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Forty-four per cent of the world’s rubber comes from natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) while the remaining 56% comprise synthetic rubber from the petrochemical industry. Natural rubber is a key product in tropical regions, and 80% of the world’s production of latex comes from smallholders. Cultivation of rubber has been carried out at the expense of two other main cash crops, coffee and cocoa, and this has led to strong competition for access to land. The increasing demand for natural rubber calls for the expansion of land under rubber cultivation and the need for their sustenance. The Rubber Agroforestry System (RAFS) is an innovative approach to improve the lives of smallholders by developing and promoting model farms with quality planting materials of high yielding rubber clones to meet farmers’ requirements. This system also creates opportunities for income enhancement through integration of arable crops on the inter-rows during the immature phase of rubber. It also promotes the development of alternative livelihood options through the production of planting materials of domesticated high-value agroforestry tree crops and mini-livestock in matured plantations.

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