Food security, sweet potato production, and proximity to markets in northern Ghana

Autor: Leland Glenna, Yetkin Borlu, Thomas Gill, Janelle Larson, Vincent Ricciardi, Rahma Adam

Publikováno v: FACETS, Vol 2, Pp 919-936 (2017)

Debates concerning how to achieve food security tend to fall into one of two camps. The first is that high-technology, market-oriented approaches promise to enhance agricultural productivity and improve food security. The counterargument is that low-

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Buruli Ulcer Disease and Its Association with Land Cover in Southwestern Ghana.

Autor: Jianyong Wu, Petra Tschakert, Erasmus Klutse, David Ferring, Vincent Ricciardi, Heidi Hausermann, Joseph Oppong, Erica A H Smithwick

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 9, Iss 6, p e0003840 (2015)

BACKGROUND:Buruli ulcer (BU), one of 17 neglected tropical diseases, is a debilitating skin and soft tissue infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. In tropical Africa, changes in land use and proximity to water have been associated with the disea

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Impact of transnational land acquisitions on local food security and dietary diversity

Autor: Gopal Penny, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Kyle Frankel Davis, Marc F. Müller, Maria Cristina Rulli, Meredith T. Niles, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paolo D'Odorico, Vincent Ricciardi, Lorenzo Rosa, Jampel Dell'Angelo

Publikováno v: Müller, M F, Penny, G, Niles, M T, Ricciardi, V, Chiarelli, D D, Davis, K F, Dell’Angelo, J, D’Odorico, P, Rosa, L, Rulli, M C & Mueller, N D 2021, ' Impact of transnational land acquisitions on local food security and dietary diversity ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 4, e2020535118, pp. 1-9 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020535118
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(4):e2020535118, 1-9. National Acad Sciences

Foreign investors have acquired approximately 90 million hectares of land for agriculture over the past two decades. The effects of these investments on local food security remain unknown. While additional cropland and intensified agriculture could p

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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100015140&partnerID=8YFLogxK

A scoping review of research funding for small-scale farmers in water scarce regions

Autor: Ellen B. McCullough, Zia Mehrabi, Nicola Randall, Vincent Ricciardi, Florian Diekmann, Balsher Singh Sidhu, Meha Jain, Abdrahmane Wane, Cecile Godde, Divya Solomon, Jaron Porciello

Publikováno v: Nature Sustainability

Water scarcity is a global issue that disproportionately affects small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Through geospatial analysis, we estimated that less than 37% of small-scale farms probably have irrigation in water scar

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00623-0

How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?

Autor: Navin Ramankutty, Zia Mehrabi, Vincent Ricciardi, Brenton Chookolingo, Larissa Jarvis

Publikováno v: Global Food Security. 17:64-72

The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world’s food has been a linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent empirical attempts to reinvestigate this number have lacked raw data

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.05.002