- Country of innovation
- Benin
- Language
- French
- Date of publication
- 22.04.2015
- Location (internet link or physical location)
- http://www.inter-reseaux.org/publications/autres-publications/article/innovation-paysanne-la-fiente-de
- Document type
- Journal article
- Author
- François Ruf (CIRAD); Abelle Galo Kla (ALP); Kouassi Dja (ALP); Josué Kiendré (SADRCI)
- Country (origin of document)
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Keywords
- agro-ecology, cocoa, fertilizers
- Name innovation
- Chicken droppings and cocoa fertilization
- Innovation type
- Socio-Cultural
- Description of innovation
- Diversification of cocoa tree fertilization strategies through the application of chicken manure - an organic input.
- Purpose and additional value of innovation
- "Organic inputs instead of using chemical fertilizers. Cocoa trees would respond faster to chicken manure than to chemical fertilizer. ""Frugal innovation"" linked to the market, ""agro-ecological intensification associated with social change"", ""innovation of migration networks"". "
- Expert analysis/comments on innovation (impact, failure, success, etc.)
- Success. This innovation was implemented without any funding from the State and the private sector. It is the pure product of village planters.
- Technical, microeconomic and ecological innovations in the cocoa production system
- Technical-biological solutions that impact practices such as pruning, spraying, integrated or biological control of diseases, pests and parasites, soil fertility, biological waste use, Adaptations of production systems and practices towards agroforestry, multi-shelf agriculture, agro-biodiversity and crop diversification, reintroduction of traditional and endemic products, organic agriculture and agro-ecological practices
- Project initiator
- Village planters
- Type of project initiator
- Individuals
- Project start (date)
- since 2000
- Reference/innovation location (internet link or physical location)
- http://www.inter-reseaux.org/publications/autres-publications/article/innovation-paysanne-la-fiente-de
- Good Governance
- Environmental Integrity
- Land: Soil Quality
Material & Energy: Material Use - Economic Resilience
- Social Well-being
Farmer innovation: “Chicken droppings” in Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa farms, an agro-ecological and social revolution
