How to increase cacao productivity while maintaining and restoring forest?

chocolate_0Marisa Camargo, doctoral researcher at VITRI and senior consultant at Indufor Oy, recently wrote a blog at the iied website presenting some of the latest findings as part of the “Inclusive REDD+” project, supported by the UK government.

We are demonstrating that ecosystem resilience and maintaining a healthy forest are vital to sustain and increase cocoa productivity over time. This makes it imperative that cocoa is not produced in isolation but integrated in the landscape, building synergies with other land uses, but especially with forest resources” Continue reading “How to increase cacao productivity while maintaining and restoring forest?”

VITRI at ICRAF’s Science Week

OL_IndonesiaOlavi Luukkanen represented VITRI at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Science Week, which was held in Bogor, Indonesia, from 14-18 September 2015. A total of 130 ICRAF staff and partners from around the world met to discuss R&D challenges especially based on the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).