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Autor:
Lotte S. Woittiez, Maja Slingerland, Meine van Noordwijk, Abner J. Silalahi, Joost van Heerwaarden, Ken E. Giller
Publikováno v:
Agriculture, Vol 14, Iss 9, p 1626 (2024)
More than 40% of the total oil palm area in Indonesia is owned and managed by smallholders. For large plantations, guidelines are available on so-called ‘best management practices’, which should give superior yields at acceptable costs when follo
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/76cb21c21d4647c0912bf6691490bdaf
Publikováno v:
Climate Risk Management, Vol 46, Iss , Pp 100649- (2024)
Smallholder farmers’ livelihoods follow predictable and cyclical patterns related to annual cycles of weather, crop and animal production and market fluctuations. Understanding seasonality forms an essential part of unravelling farming systems beha
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/15dc8e5bcc4a41f6979cf1e43e4c1b1c
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 7 (2024)
Smallholder farming systems are vulnerable to disruptions. The COVID-19 pandemic weakened the financial ability of the Malian government in the 2020–21 growing season to subsidize cotton farmers’ access to mineral fertilizers and the cotton compa
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https://doaj.org/article/866872e32fc54a678a88e8d669437244
Can small-scale farming systems serve as an economic engine in the former homelands of South Africa?
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 7 (2023)
Small-scale farming plays a critical role in the food security of Africa. An analysis of households in two former homelands provided critical insights into the future of small-scale farming in South Africa. From a survey of 132 households, 57 from Em
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/510617f26ce447aba9e9afdff9258c14
Autor:
Harmen den Braber, Gerrie van de Ven, Esther Ronner, Wytze Marinus, Antoine Languillaume, Dennis Ochola, Godfrey Taulya, Ken E. Giller, Katrien Descheemaeker
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Vol 20, Iss 5, Pp 821-843 (2022)
In South-West Uganda, manure is highly valued for sustaining yields of East African Highland Banana, but it is in short supply. As a result, banana growers import manure from rangelands up to 50 km away. We aimed to explore the potential of this regi
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https://doaj.org/article/ea6cabca61244fd0a40643a439b2486a
Publikováno v:
Poultry Science, Vol 102, Iss 5, Pp 102574- (2023)
ABSTRACT: The demand for chicken meat and eggs exceeds what can be produced in Tanzania, largely due to low productivity of the sector. Feed quantity and quality are the major factors determining the potential production and productivity of chickens.
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/2639681213a24eb3bc823f72f9477c82
Publikováno v:
Climate Risk Management, Vol 40, Iss , Pp 100490- (2023)
Climate-related variability in crop production and market price variability affect food and income security of Uganda’s rural households. We used household surveys from two contrasting sites in Uganda to quantify the relationships between crop prod
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/792f90eb606e434ab3ac1b535df26506
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 4, p e0283499 (2023)
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa need to increase to keep pace with food demands from the burgeoning population. Smallholder farmers play an important role in national food self-sufficiency, yet many live in poverty. Investing in inputs to increase
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/bfeb93a2d9194ec281d2a060c1a7bd39
Autor:
Wilson C. Wilson, Maja Slingerland, Simon Oosting, Frederick P. Baijukya, Anne-Jo Smits, Ken E. Giller
Publikováno v:
Poultry Science, Vol 101, Iss 10, Pp 102062- (2022)
ABSTRACT: The poultry industry in Tanzania has grown steadily over the past decade. We surveyed 121 chicken farming households along an intensification gradient from backyard to semi-intensive and intensive production systems based on rearing system
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/7a8948333a69443ab93748a883094dde
Autor:
Tesfahun Alemayehu, Guy Marius Assogba, Silke Gabbert, Ken E. Giller, James Hammond, Aminou Arouna, Elliott Ronald Dossou-Yovo, Gerrie W. J. van de Ven
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 6 (2022)
Inland valleys (IVs) in West African countries have increasingly been used for crop production, including rice cultivation. Though it is widely assumed that IVs have a high potential to contribute to food security of West African countries, a compreh
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https://doaj.org/article/f5ab3aa6c33f4109a783019d866fe5fa