In June and July, our team carried out fieldwork in cacao plantations in Cameroon, together with our partners at the University of Dschang, in collaboration with Prof. Marie Caroline Momo Solefack. Cameroon is one of the world’s major cacao producers, and most of its cacao is grown by smallholder farmers in agroforestry systems. In plantations… Continue reading Fieldwork in Cameroon
Our new study has been published in Basic and Applied Ecology. It takes a fresh look at a long-standing question in cacao research: which insects actually pollinate the flowers? Cacao flowers are visited by many small insects, and recent studies have listed a growing number of them as potential pollinators. But visiting a flower is… Continue reading New paper: who really pollinates cacao?
