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CONTEXT
Location: Honduras, Olancho, Aprosacao project
Climate: Sub tropical humid
Soil: Inceptisol (USDA classification)
Crop: Cocoa
ACADEMIC PARTNER
Universidad Nacional de Agricultura, Honduras (UNA)
SOIL MACRO-BIODIVERSITY
– Major soil quality indicator
– Provider of ecosystem services: soil formation, decomposition and nutrient cycling, carbon and nitrogen fixation and sequestration, infiltration, purification and storage of water
FIRST RESULTS
Agroforestry and reforested systems contains about 4 times more macro-organisms than full sun systems.