Interest in diversification through agroforestry for small-scale farms on Malo Islande, Vanuatu

• Main Authors: Feintrenie, Laurène, Ollivier, Jean, Enjalric, Franck
• Other Authors: Fonctionnement et conduite des Systèmes de culture Tropicaux et Méditerranéens, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Partenaires INRAE
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: CACAOYER; DIVERSIFICATION DES ACTIVITES; CULTURE MARCHANDE; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Malo; Pacific; Islande
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02754891

Session: 30. Socioeconomics, livelihoods, and island and coastal agroforestry. Contact: [e-mail] International audience Coconut-based agroforestry systems have a central role in livelihoods on Malo Island, in the South Pacific. This complex pluri-specific plantation provides the family with both food and cash income, thanks to the association in space and time of food crops (mainly root crops) and cash crops (coconut, cacao and vanilla). Since the year 2000, vanilla has been developing on the island as a new cash crop. Farmers try to adapt their production systems to include it. Some of them chose to do so by associating vanilla with their main cash crop, coconut. A survey of these innovative practices and their economic results was conducted in 2005 and this resulted in economic modeling of this new agroforestry system. Based on this study, the process of diversification of production inside small farming units is analysed