Abstract Submission - ISCR Symposium

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Innovations to support market development and promote the sustainability of cocoa farming for better farmer income.

Integrated Pest management and GAP techniques (Shade and irrigation; improved crop, pest and diseases, shade, soil, water and soil/fertility management)
Farm rehabilitation techniques
Knowledge of the genome and of the functioning of the plant
Farmers techniques and know how
Institutional, policy management systems

Renewable energy, clean water, health, food security and improved nutrition for the cocoa farmers
Impact of climate changes on cocoa farming, on the spatial repartition of cocoa zones in the world
Rescue, characterisation and exploitation of biodiversity for varietal creation in a context of climate change
Diversification techniques (other crops, non-farm activities) – environnemental and economic perspective
Agroforestry, sylvo-pasture, aquaculture techniques (agronomy, ecology and the economics thereof)
Reforestation /Afforestation programmes
Payments for Environmental Services (PES): myths and reality
Landscape approach
Training and capacity building on climate smart agriculture techniques
Climate information and surveillance systems
Other new climate adaptation techniques; energy efficient technologies along the value chain

Food safety compliance systems (pesticides and other contaminants) of cocoa products (mapping and agronomic solutions, breeding and genetic manipulations, remediation techniques etc)
Innovative processing methods and transformation processes
Valorisation of quality attributes (The multidimensionality of cocoa quality -sensory and aromatic analysis, consumer preferences, improvement strategies, differentiation and enhancement of quality certification, quality recognition programmes etc)
Valorisation of nutritional attributes of cocoa products
Valorisation of cocoa by-products for food and non-food products (candies, fertilizers, biogas and digestates, cosmetics, etc).
Other innovations (packaging, etc)
Traceability systems
Access to micro credit, crop insurance coverage, financial risk management
Digital applications