Bioversity scientist Charles Staver shares lessons learned from multi-strata coffee and banana management in Central America. Find out more about our work on agroforestry: www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/
Smallholder multi-strata coffee/banana farm management under pressure: Contributions from resilience analysis
1. Smallholder multi-strata coffee/banana farm
management under pressure: Contributions from
resilience analysis
Charles Staver,.Pablo Siles, German Calberto
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Bananas in coffee fields (ha)
Mexico 75000
Guatemala 43000
El Salvador 30000
Honduras 84000
Nicaragua 35000
Costa Rica 7000
TOTAL 255,000
Bananas in coffee with trees in Mesoamerica
Other countries LAC and Africa: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Venezuela, Republica Dominicana, Haiti, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania,
Guinea Conakry, Ghana, Uganda
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Better prices for banana – farmer initiatives
Now Before
Volume 2,206 356 sacos
Sale price 28 70
Gross Income 61,768 24,951
Marketing Costs 22,060 12,104
Net Income 39,708 12,847
Increased income 3 veces
Before
Now
Steps:
- Reconnaissance of possible markets
by farmer commission;
- ID of promising options grower group
- Feasibility study of alternative options
- Pilot marketing and expansion
11. - Trends and unpredictability influencing farms
Resilience framework:
Possible contributions to research for
smallholder multi-stata farm management
- Framework at farm household level - SES
12. Trends - climate change
Implications for coffee, trees: critical high temperatures
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13. Trends – regulations and standards
Implications farm – admin time, skills, technology
Certifications???
Regulations???
EnvironmentLabor Safety
18. Frameworks at farm household level - SES
Moderate/extreme events
•RESIST
•ABSORB (bend/not break)
•RECOVER
System resilience
•REDUNDANCIES
•MODULARITY
•FEEDBACK LOOPS
RESEARCH DIMENSIONS:
Tree strata: from static to dynamic
Crop cultivars, associations and mgmt
Water for resistance, bend/not break, recovery
Household decisionmaking – feedback loops
19. More than any tree for climate change???
Species, associations, mgmt:
- phenology and microenvironment
- relative water use coffee
- nutrient cycling, N fixation
- response to pruning
- Fruit, timber, fodder etc
Dynamic mgmt – thinning, replanting, pruning
21. Water for resistance, recovery, resilience?
Issues:
- seasonality
- year to year
- quality, quantity
- where on-farm
- local watersheds
multi-farm
Examples:
- household domestic use
- coffee processing
- banana post-harvest
- nurseries
- supplementary irrigation
- maximum infiltration
soil storage, soil protection
- drainage, excess
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FEEDBACK LOOPS: Primary herbivores
Management team: Agroecological intensification:
- Agroecological reasoning
- Routine data taking, observation linked to decision making
- Cost accounting and marginal returns
- Social capital linked to landscape, megadata analysis
- Planning for the next generation
Transformation: “continual improvement”
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