Cashew cultivation in Guinea-Bissau–risks and challenges of the success of a cash crop

L Catarino, Y Menezes, R Sardinha - Scientia Agricola, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
In recent decades a boom in cashew (Anacardium occidentale) cultivation has taken place
in Guinea-Bissau, leading to the replacement of traditional slash-and-burn agriculture by a …

Unveiling how herpetofauna cope with land‐use changes—Insights from forest‐cashew‐rice landscapes in West Africa

F dos Reis‐Silva, C Pizzigalli, S Seck, M Cabeza… - Biotropica, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural induced land‐use change comprises a key driver of biodiversity loss across
tropical forests. Guinea‐Bissau, among Afrotropical West Africa, was formerly occupied by …

Detecting vertical and lateral root hydraulic redistribution based on soil-moisture alteration on cashew seedlings

J Pitono, SF Syahid, M Melati, L Devy, D Rusmin… - Agroforestry …, 2025 - Springer
Cashew trees with hydraulic redistribution (HR) capability are able to function as the upper
story in agroforestry-based dryland agriculture. Although cashew vertical HR can share …

Polysaccharides and other carbohydrates

J Simões, ASP Moreira, CP Passos, FM Nunes… - 2019 - books.rsc.org
Polysaccharides are the predominant carbohydrates present in green coffee beans,
accounting for about 50% of their dry weight. Galactomannans, type II arabinogalactans, and …

[PDF][PDF] Zooming in on human-wildlife coexistence: primate community responses in a shared agroforest landscape in Guinea-Bissau

E Bersacola - 2019 - scholar.archive.org
In this thesis I explore how humans and nonhuman primates, including chimpanzees, share
the space in a coastal forest-agriculture-village landscape mosaic at Cantanhez National …

[PDF][PDF] Cashew: An emerging tree commodity in African drylands for livelihoods improvement and ecosystem restoration

LA Duguma, A Bah, PA Minang… - Minang P. A, Duguma …, 2021 - researchgate.net
• However, benefits from cashew production remain low due to low productivity and value
addition (exporting 98% of its produce as raw and unshelled cashew).• A case study in The …

[PDF][PDF] Produção de Caju eo seu Impacto na Economia e no Ambiente: Caso Guiné-Bissau

ZND Comba - 2022 - repositorio-aberto.up.pt
RESUMO A Guiné-Bissau é um dos países mais pobres do mundo, ocupando a 14. ª, de
acordo com os dados de 2019. Mas esse nível de pobreza não faz os decisores político …

[PDF][PDF] Spider Diversity in Mango Orchards

VK Patil, VP Uniyal, NV Bhuvad, SB Shigvan, JY Zende… - researchgate.net
Mango orchards in some regions of world form a major habitat in the landscape. As a
managed horticultural ecosystem, they are supposed to produce commercial yield of …

[PDF][PDF] The Cashew Plantation: Green growth for environmental management and sustainable livelihood in Dekina, Nigeria.

OO Ifatimehin, EO Momoh, PSU Eneche - researchgate.net
The last century has suffered significant changes associated with global warming and
biodiversity loss; these environmental problems are triggered by man's anthropogenic …

[PDF][PDF] Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools for Vegetation Monitoring

SPVC Pereira - 2020 - repositorio-aberto.up.pt
Abstract The forests of Guinea Bissau are under constant threat; they are silently being cut
down and replaced by tree crops, mainly cashew. While the exports of cashew nuts greatly …