{"id":9111,"date":"2026-11-02T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecotop.org\/?page_id=9111"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:02:40","slug":"annual-crops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecotop.org\/fr\/annual-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultures annuelles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Les cultures que nous cultivons<\/p>

Cultures annuelles<\/h1>

Oryza, Zea, Phaseolus, Manihot<\/em><\/p>

Food from the first months, grown without fire, on the same plots where the trees of a Dynamic Agroforestry system are getting started.<\/p><\/div>

Rice with banana and cocoyam in a plot planted without burning \u00b7 Photo: ECOTOP<\/div><\/section>
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Maize 12 weeks after sowing into mulch, without burning, 2020 \u00b7 Photo: ECOTOP<\/div><\/div>

Annual crops, grown without fire<\/h2>

In much of the tropics, rice, maize and beans are still grown by slash-and-burn. Forest or fallow is cleared and burned, cropped for a year or two and then left. Yields fall after the first harvest, and in dry years the fires get out of control.<\/p>

In Dynamic Agroforestry the vegetation is cut and laid on the ground instead of burned. Maize, rice, beans and cassava come up through the mulch in the first months, while bananas, fruit and timber trees take over in the years that follow. Families eat and sell from the plot from the first season.<\/p>

On fields close to the house, where a family wants to keep growing food every year, rows of trees are pruned hard before each sowing. Their branches cover the soil, maize, beans or cassava grow in the light between the rows, and the trees resprout to grow the mulch for the next cycle. In Ghana’s Sankofa project, farmers began planting cocoa into these food plots in 2023, so the project decided to merge the two designs.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

1,560 kg\/ha<\/div>
average rice yield without burning or fertiliser in Alto Beni, Bolivia (2014\u20132018)<\/div><\/div>
123 ha<\/div>
of agroforestry plots set up without burning by 184 farmers in Alto Beni, 2017\u20132024<\/div><\/div>
3 months<\/div>
to the first bean harvest, with maize at four<\/div><\/div>
No fire<\/div>
cut vegetation stays on the field as mulch<\/div><\/div><\/section>

Notre approche<\/p>

Notre fa\u00e7on de travailler avec vous<\/h2>

A programme built with you, from the first field visit to whole communities farming without fire, with local people trained to run it.<\/p>

1<\/div>
\u00c9valuer<\/div>
Mission d'\u00e9valuation<\/div>
We look at the land, the fallow and how families grow food crops today, and run an introductory Dynamic Agroforestry workshop.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
2<\/div>
Conception<\/div>
Programme sur mesure<\/div>
Together we plan the planting: annual crops across the plot in the first season, with banana, cassava and pigeon pea, and the trees that will follow.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
3<\/div>
Autonomiser<\/div>
Renforcement des capacit\u00e9s locales<\/div>
We train technicians and lead farmers to cut and mulch instead of burning, to sow into the mulch and to prune the companion plants.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
4<\/div>
\u00c9chelle<\/div>
Transformation du paysage<\/div>
Exchanges between farmers and learning plots carry the method from family to family and village to village.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
5<\/div>
Moniteur<\/div>
Suivi et rapports<\/div>
En option, nous surveillons les parcelles \u00e0 l'aide du DAF Tracker (d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 avec FarmTree) afin d'obtenir des donn\u00e9es transparentes et comparables.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Rice without burning in Alto Beni<\/h2>

Fundaci\u00f3n ECOTOP has grown rice and maize without burning in Alto Beni, Bolivia, for more than a decade. On fallow land, maize is sown together with canavalia, a cover crop that closes over the soil and keeps weeds down. After the maize harvest the canavalia is cut, and rice is sown straight into the mulch.<\/p>

In ECOTOP trials from 2014 to 2018, rice grown without burning averaged 1,560 kg of dried, peeled rice per hectare, with no external inputs and less weeding. Slash-and-burn rice in the region rarely passes 1,000 kg in the first year and drops after that. Fundaci\u00f3n ECOTOP also works with the municipalities of Palos Blancos and Alto Beni on local rules that restrict burning.<\/p><\/div>

\"Dry
Dry rice a few weeks after sowing into slash-and-mulch, 2020 \u00b7 Photo: ECOTOP<\/div><\/div><\/section>

La diff\u00e9rence<\/p>

What Dynamic Agroforestry brings to annual crops<\/h2>

Mulch, not fire<\/h3>

Cut vegetation stays on the ground as mulch and feeds the soil instead of going up in smoke.<\/p><\/div>

Safer in dry years<\/h3>

Without burning there is no fire to escape into forest and fallow, a growing risk after recent droughts.<\/p><\/div>

Food from the first season<\/h3>

Beans, maize, rice and cassava are harvested within months, long before the trees bear.<\/p><\/div>

A start for the trees<\/h3>

The annual crops share the plot with bananas, fruit and timber trees, which take over as the system grows.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Partenaires<\/p>

Programme et partenaires<\/h2>
Projet<\/span>

Sankofa, Ghana<\/h3>

Started in 2016 with lead farmers testing planting without burning. Maize, cowpea, cassava, yam and plantain grow in the first years of the cocoa plots.<\/p><\/a>Field news<\/span>

Learning plots without fire, Colombia<\/h3>

Three half-hectare learning plots with the Asoarhuaco association in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, with maize, beans, cassava and plantain sown into mulch; cocoa follows in the next phase.<\/p><\/a>Recherche<\/span>

SysCom long-term trial, Bolivia<\/h3>

Comparing agroforestry and monoculture side by side since 2008. The plots started with one season of maize and canavalia before the cocoa went in.<\/p><\/a><\/div><\/section>

\u00c9l\u00e9ments de preuve<\/p>

Les principes scientifiques du DAF<\/h2>
\"EssaiRecherche \u00b7 10 min<\/span>

15 ans de donn\u00e9es sur les rendements agroforestiers<\/h3>

Une \u00e9tude \u00e0 long terme montre que l'agroforesterie permet d'atteindre des rendements comparables \u00e0 ceux de l'agriculture conventionnelle, tout en offrant une r\u00e9silience bien sup\u00e9rieure.<\/p><\/a>\"OptimisationArticle \u00b7 6 min<\/span>

Optimisation des rendements gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l'agroforesterie dynamique<\/h3>

Pourquoi les syst\u00e8mes diversifi\u00e9s et g\u00e9r\u00e9s sont plus productifs que la maximisation de la monoculture.<\/p><\/a>\"Agroforesterie,Article \u00b7 6 min<\/span>

Agroforesterie, carbone et reboisement<\/h3>

Comment l'agroforesterie dynamique permet de stocker le carbone et de restaurer les paysages.<\/p><\/a><\/div><\/section>

Nos services<\/p>

D'autres fa\u00e7ons de collaborer avec vous<\/h2>
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D\u00e9veloppement et mise en \u0153uvre de projets<\/h3>

De la premi\u00e8re \u00e9valuation jusqu'au transfert \u00e0 une \u00e9quipe locale.<\/p>En savoir plus \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/circle><\/circle><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>

Renforcement des capacit\u00e9s et assistance technique<\/h3>

Des formateurs qui pratiquent eux-m\u00eames l'agriculture DAF, en assurant un suivi de la parcelle jusqu'\u00e0 ce que les sols et les rendements en t\u00e9moignent.<\/p>En savoir plus \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/path><\/svg><\/span>

Impact climatique et \u00e9limination du carbone<\/h3>

Carbone mesur\u00e9 sur le terrain, pr\u00eat pour la certification.<\/p>En savoir plus \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/path><\/rect><\/rect><\/rect><\/svg><\/span>

Suivi et v\u00e9rification EUDR<\/h3>

Donn\u00e9es de terrain, cartes des parcelles et tableaux de bord. L'EUDR s'appuie sur ces m\u00eames donn\u00e9es.<\/p>En savoir plus \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>

Recherche avanc\u00e9e<\/h3>

Deux essais cliniques \u00e0 long terme, dont les r\u00e9sultats ont fait l'objet d'une \u00e9valuation par des pairs.<\/p>En savoir plus \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/section>

Working with farmers who clear land by fire? Let’s talk about alternatives.<\/h2>

ECOTOP helps cooperatives, NGOs and companies bring food crops into Dynamic Agroforestry, without fire. Let’s talk about your project.<\/p>Contactez notre \u00e9quipe<\/a><\/section><\/div>