Does investment in palm oil trade alleviate smallholders from poverty in Africa? Investigating profitability from a biodiversity hotspot, Cameroon

• Lacour M. Ayompe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mlacour@uci.edu

  Affiliations Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2701

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• Raymond N. Nkongho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomic and Applied Molecular Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Cargele Masso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Benis N. Egoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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