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More than chocolate: diversifying cocoa agroforests for higher profitability in Cameroon

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One of the main treebased systems in the West and Central Africa region is the cocoa plantation (Theobroma cacao Linn.). However, cocoa prices on the world market have been fluctuating significantly and farmers have been actively searching to diversify this system for more sustained income generation ( Jagoret et al.2008; Sonwa2004; Hietet2005;Todem 2005).

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