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## Meet the editors

Samuel Ohikhena Agele is a professor and lead researcher in the Plant Physiology and Ecology Group, Department of Crop, Soil and Pest Management, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. His research interests include plant physiology and ecology, agricultural climatology, agricultural water management, conservation agriculture, food security, bioreclamation, and plant domestication. His work is at the frontiers of agriculture

and the environment and his major contributions to science are in the study of agriculture and interface with global change. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has engaged in debates concerning how more severe droughts, as a consequence of climate change, can accelerate tree mortality.

Dr. Olufemi Samuel Ibiremo is the Director of Training, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interest is soil fertility using organic fertilizers, rock phosphates, and biotic agents (as alternative sources of nutrients) for the cultivation of cocoa, coffee, cashew kola, and tea (Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria [CRIN]-mandated crops). He has authored more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles. He has

also given talks and presented his research findings at regional and international scientific conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia.

### Contents



Preface

This book, "Shifting Frontiers of *Theobroma cacao* – Opportunities and Challenges for Production", presents a comprehensive perspective that acknowledges the interactions of changing environmental conditions (climate, soil, and agroecological), cocoa

The book is short, clear, readable, and accessible, and covers a broad range of topics to quicken the pace of understanding and knowledge (scholarship) among agroclimatologists, social and natural scientists, policymakers, and activists concerned with burning issues of changing environment conditions and their current and future

The chapters are organized into four sections: "Climate Change as a Threat to Growing Area Suitability for Cocoa", "ICT Role in Advancing Climate Change Adaptation and Climate Mitigation", "Climate Change, Crop Protection and the Environment", and "Cocoa Cultivation: Role in Peace Building". The chapters inform, stimulate, and provoke thought as well as actions and partnerships relevant to addressing challenges and constraints to cocoa production in the era of a changing climate. It provides insights into the need for cocoa actors within the cocoa sector to strengthen climate mitigation and resilience building and to come to grips with the realities, magnitude, and inevitable persistence of climate challenge to cocoa production and sustainability. The authors synthesize and deploy current scholarship on climate change and its implications and ramifications for the crop *Theobroma* in ways to promote and activate intelligent thought, collective actions, and partnerships for cocoa production sustainability. The book is invaluable to scientists, researchers, agriculturists (cocoa farmers), and students, as it illuminates the

challenges presented by climate change for cocoa production and sustainability.

As the editors of this book volume, we would like to express my profound thankfulness and gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, and staff at IntechOpen. We all are

**Samuel Ohikhena Agele**

Akure, Nigeria

Ibadan, Nigeria

The Federal University of Technology,

**Olufemi Samuel Ibiremo, Ph.D.** Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria,

production, and sustainability.

implications for cocoa production and sustainability.

grateful and appreciative of their work and ideas.
