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Autor:
Joshua J. Ramisch, João Vasco Silva
Publikováno v:
Experimental Agriculture 55 (2019) 2
Experimental Agriculture, 55(2), 311-338
Experimental Agriculture, 55(2), 311-338
SUMMARYYield gaps have become a useful tool for guiding development-related agronomy, especially in the global South. While critics have challenged some aspects of the yield gap methodology, and the relevance of food security advocacy based on yield
Autor:
Joshua J. Ramisch
Publikováno v:
Agriculture and Human Values. 33:979-995
Western Kenya has been a labour-exporting region for over a century, with many households straddling both rural and urban contexts. While the spatial separation of migrants from their rural places of origin represented the first tangible metabolic ri
Autor:
Joshua J. Ramisch
Publikováno v:
Geoforum. 55:120-132
Knowledge-based development interventions for improved natural resource management have long advocated for the integration of local and outsiders’ knowledge. Participatory and conventional approaches frame this as a dialogue between “local” and
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Systems, 97(1-2), 1-12
Agricultural Systems
Agricultural Systems 97 (2008) 1-2
Agricultural Systems
Agricultural Systems 97 (2008) 1-2
The aim of this paper was to understand the process of selecting soybean ( Glycine max [L.] Merr.) promiscuous varieties by smallholders for soil fertility management in western Kenya. Eight varieties were screened on 2.5 m × 3 m plots that were man
Publikováno v:
Land Degradation & Development. 19:77-90
The following study was conducted to determine smallholders' land use management practices and agricultural indicators of soil quality within farmers' fields in Chuka and Gachoka divisions in Kenya's Central Highlands. Data on cropping practices and
Publikováno v:
Geoderma. 139:134-143
A study was conducted to determine farmers' perceptions of soil quality and common soil management practices that influenced soil fertility within farmers' fields in Chuka and Gachoka divisions, Kenya. Soils were characterised by smallholders after w
Publikováno v:
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 76:355-367
Persistent food insecurity accompanied by low and declining farm household incomes are a common feature of many small holder maize and bean producers in western Kenya. This has been largely attributed to soil nutrient depletion, among other factors.
Autor:
Jeremias Mowo, Richard J. Thomas, J. Agunda, M.T. Trejo, Joshua J. Ramisch, Robert J. Delve, Mateete A. Bekunda, Edmundo Barrios
Publikováno v:
Geoderma. 135:248-259
The increasing attention paid to local soil knowledge results from a greater recognition that farmer knowledge can offer many insights into the sustainable management of tropical soils and that the integration of local and technical knowledge systems
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 4:154-168
Farmers and researchers in western Kenya have used community-based learning approaches to jointly develop a ‘dynamic expertise’ of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM). This transformative learning approach builds on farmers' ‘folk ecolo
Autor:
Joshua J. Ramisch
Publikováno v:
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 105:353-372
Nutrient balances aggregated at the continental, national, or regional levels for African farming systems are usually reported as strongly negative. At the landscape or farm scale, the most commonly reported variability is the gradient of decreasing