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Autor:
Fredrick O. Ouya, Alice W. Murage, Jimmy O. Pittchar, Frank Chidawanyika, John A. Pickett, Zeyaur R. Khan
Publikováno v:
Agriculture & Food Security, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2023)
Abstract Background Agricultural research and technology adoption play a key role in improving productivity and therefore generate impact on household livelihoods. The push–pull technology developed by the International Centre of Insect Physiology
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https://doaj.org/article/d896f10a9d214a53876e6214cb8d969f
Publikováno v:
Agriculture, Vol 10, Iss 7, p 268 (2020)
Brachiaria (Urochloa) is a genus, common name brachiaria, of forage grasses that is increasingly transforming integrated crop-livestock production systems in East Africa. A study was undertaken to (i) assess smallholder farmers’ perception on benef
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https://doaj.org/article/4347217542bc414a8e95c07a6eec484b
Autor:
Frank Chidawanyika, Beatrice Muriithi, Saliou Niassy, Fredrick O. Ouya, Jimmy O. Pittchar, Menale Kassie, Zeyaur R. Khan
Publikováno v:
Environmental Sustainability. 6:25-34
‘One health’ (OH) is a cross-sectoral approach that addresses human, plant, animal, and environmental health problems. The initiative stems from recognition of the convoluted linkages among global health risks and the need for coherent multiprong
Autor:
Duncan Cheruiyot, Frank Chidawanyika, Charles A. O. Midega, Jimmy O. Pittchar, John A. Pickett, Zeyaur R. Khan
SummaryProduction of cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa is threatened by parasitic striga weeds and attack by stemborers and the invasive fall armyworm (FAW), compounded by increasing hot and dry conditions. A climate-smart push-pull technology (PPT)
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::7df2a64bf35185e8863ccbc76627ef9d
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147704/1/field-evaluation-of-a-new-.pdf
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147704/1/field-evaluation-of-a-new-.pdf
Autor:
John A. Pickett, C.O. Onyango, A.W. Murage, Jimmy O. Pittchar, Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A. O. Midega
Publikováno v:
East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal. 83:289-306
Adoption studies have identified gender as one of the factors that determine technology uptake and this has been linked to women’s access to farming information or lack of it. Technology scaling up systems should utilise pathways that are compatibl
Publikováno v:
Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2 ISBN: 9781786762689
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::6b44b06fa54be29a095a13a8ff4fdb96
https://doi.org/10.19103/as.2019.0049.05
https://doi.org/10.19103/as.2019.0049.05
Publikováno v:
Outlooks on Pest Management. 29:220-224
Fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda invaded Africa, with the first detections being reported in Central and Western Africa in early 2016, and now affects at least 40 countries in Africa, causing up to total crop loss amounting to over $6.2 bill
Publikováno v:
Crop Protection. 105:10-15
Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith), an economically important pest native to tropical and subtropical\ud America has recently invaded Africa, causing substantial damage to maize and other crops. We evaluated\ud functionality of a compan
Publikováno v:
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION AND DEVELOPMENT. 17:12953-12969
This study examined the impact of push-pull technology (PPT) on the nutritional status of children aged 1-12 years. Non-push-pull (NPPT) farmers were used as a control group to establish a comparative model for this study. It determined household pro
Publikováno v:
Pest Management Science
The entire process of agricultural and horticultural food production is unsustainable as practiced by current highly intensive industrial systems. Energy consumption is particularly intensive for cultivation, and for fertilizer production and its inc