A short season roundup: what we planted, what we learned, and what's growing in the plots this past month.
Sur place
Grafting for Protection of Natural Parks
MaMaBay, Madagascar
Grafting workshops were held to teach local Malagasy smallholders how to properly graft agroforestry trees for maintenance.
This is part of conservational project with the Wildlife Conservation Society chapter in Madagascar to create Dynamic Agroforestry (DAF) buffer areas as a
means of protecting natural parks.
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Changing Attitudes from Slash-and-Burn to Slash-and-Mulch
Sierra Nevada de
Santa Marta, Colombia
An initiative to help the indigenous Arhuaco move towards slash-and-mulch to retain field quality without denigrating indigenous customs and way of life. The mission was conducted alongside the Asoarhuaco Association.
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Calendrier
2027 (date provisoire)
Formation internationale sur la gestion du DAF
Session en direct consacrée à la gestion du DAF en vue de sa mise en œuvre. De plus amples informations seront communiquées ultérieurement.
Lecture
Le cacao au service de la conservation : une étude de cas sur l'agroforesterie dynamique
A closer look into ECOTOP's joint project with WCS Madagascar on how DAF is being used as a buffer zone to separate farmlands from protected ecological zones.
Check out our impact →Agroforesterie dynamique sans brûlage et sans recours à des intrants externes pour la production de cultures annuelles et pérennes sous les tropiques
Our in-depth analysis on the impacts of slash-and-burn compared to slash-and-mulch that was presented at the 6th World Congress of Agroforestry.
Read the paper →Amélioration de la taille et de la gestion de l'eau dans les systèmes de production de cacao en agroforesterie dynamique (DAF)
A look into the expansion of the greater 'Scaling Cocoa Sustainability' project with research on how high canopy pruning affects cocoa productivity across Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador
Take a look →Le DAF Tracker
Would you like a more effective way of keeping track of how new DAF plots are doing? The DAF tracker is a tool capable of monitoring and recording changes of DAF plots in real time. Made with farmers in mind, the DAF tracker can run on any smartphone with offline capabilities.
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La culture du mois
Theobroma cacao L.
ECOTOP's staple crop. The fruit that is eventually transformed into delectable chocolates grows in shaded systems with tropical climate and high annual rainfall. While West Africa is the primary source of this fruit globally, declining yields and erratic dry seasons threaten consistent supply chains. We possess decades of experience helping smallholders convert their plantations into resilient Dynamic Agroforestry systems and have worked with several partners globally such as HALBA, Lindt, Tradin Organic and others.
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