Trees can help the rural poor earn money by selling their fruit, nuts, timber, leaves, resin and bark. Fodder trees on farms provide high-quality fodder for livestock, boosting milk and meat production and incomes. ‘Fertilizer trees’ improve soil fertility and soil conditions, increase crop yields and incomes. Families can sell the surplus agroforestry products. Agroforestry research and development helps smallholder farmers learn about profitable trees suited to local conditions, and to access high-quality varieties of plants for better yields and profits. Many rural people are now selling native fruit, nuts such as macadamia, and other fresh produce from newly domesticated species in local and urban markets.
Publication year
2022
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry, socio-economics, allanblackia, households, income
Geographic
Cameroon
