Cultivos con los que trabajamos
Ananas comosus
Pineapple grown under a light canopy of trees, on soil designed to keep its fertility from one cycle to the next.
Most pineapple is grown in open-field monoculture. The plants stand in full sun, the soil lies bare between cycles, and when yields drop farmers clear new land. In Benin, farmers often crop only a third of their pineapple land at a time and leave a third in fallow so the soil can recover.
ECOTOP brings Dynamic Agroforestry to pineapple. Pineapple goes in at the start of the system, together with maize, cassava and pigeon pea, while young fruit, timber and biomass trees grow up around it. Pruned branches and leaves cover the soil, and the trees shade the fruit in the hottest months.
Nuestro enfoque
A programme built with you, from the first field visit to whole cooperatives farming this way, with local people trained to run it.
In Benin, ECOTOP works with Tradin Organic and the RePAB cooperative to move more than 1,600 smallholders to Dynamic Agroforestry. Training combines field days with digital lessons on the SkillEd platform, and farms are working towards Regenerative Organic Certified status. Women carry much of this supply chain, so the project includes governance training aimed at them.
La diferencia
Pruned biomass covers and feeds the soil and holds moisture, so the same land can carry crop after crop instead of being left fallow.
A light canopy protects the fruit from sunburn and heat stress during heatwaves.
Maize, cassava, pigeon pea and later fruit and timber trees grow on the same plot, so income does not depend on pineapple alone.
Fertility comes from pruned biomass grown on the plot, with no synthetic fertilisers or pesticides, which fits organic and regenerative certification.
Socios
Pruebas
Investigación · 10 minUn ensayo a largo plazo demuestra que la agrosilvicultura puede alcanzar los mismos rendimientos que los sistemas convencionales, pero con una resiliencia mucho mayor.
Artículo · 6 minPor qué los sistemas diversificados y gestionados ofrecen un mayor rendimiento que la maximización del monocultivo.
Artículo · 6 minCómo la agroforestería dinámica almacena carbono y regenera los paisajes.
Nuestros servicios
Desde la primera evaluación hasta el traspaso de responsabilidades al equipo local.
Más información →Entrenadores que cultivan DAF por su cuenta, con un seguimiento de la parcela hasta que los suelos y los rendimientos lo demuestren.
Más información →Carbono medido sobre el terreno, listo para la certificación.
Más información →Datos de campo, mapas de parcelas y paneles de control. EUDR con los mismos datos.
Más información →Dos ensayos a largo plazo, cuyos resultados han sido revisados por expertos.
Más información →ECOTOP helps producers and buyers move pineapple out of open-field monoculture and into Dynamic Agroforestry. Let’s talk about your pineapple.
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