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Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury, Sarah Gora, Hannes Dempewolf, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Vania Azevedo, Sam Brockington, Ángela Cano, Daniel Carver, Carly Cowell, Peter Crane, Cary Fowler, Peter Giovannini, Luigi Guarino, Robbie Hart, Geoff Hawtin, Sarada Krishnan, Charlotte Lusty, Patricia Malcolm, Nan McCarry, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Tara Moreau, Arshiya Noorani, Susan K. Pell, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Erin C. Riordan, Stefan Schmitz, Paul Smith, Charles Spillane, Alvaro Toledo, Raakel Toppila, Maarten van Zonneveld, Emily Warschefsky, Peter Wenzl   +35 more
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BIOGAS PRODUCTION USING ANAEROBIC BIODIGESTER FROM CASSAVA STARCH EFFLUENT WITH RUMINANT BACTERIA AS BIOCATALYST [PDF]

, 2010
IKMs’ factory activity in Margoyoso produces liquid and solid wastes. The possible alternative was to use the liquid effluent as biogas raw material.
Ayu O., Audra, Dyan Aryati, Vincensia
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury, Hannes Dempewolf, Alejandro Argumedo, Stef de Haan, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Alvaro Toledo, Maarten van Zonneveld, Peter Wenzl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONSTRAINTS TO ADOPTION AND UTILIZATION OF CASSAVA PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AMONG FARMERS IN IMO STAE, NIGERIA [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2018
The study analyzed cassava farmers’ adoption and utilization of cassava production technologies in Imo State, Nigeria. Purposive and multi-stage random sampling techniques were used to select one hundred and twenty (120) cassava farmers.
Chidinma Gladys ANYANWU
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Contribution of the Baobab Value Chain to Equitable Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong, Emmanuel Donkor, Victor Owusu, Dietrich Darr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Efficiency Analysis of Nigerian Cassava Farmers: A Guide for Food Security Policy [PDF]

This study analyzed relationship between techn ical efficiency and socio-economic variables of cassava farmers in Nigeria. Data were collected from randomly sampled 360 cassava farmers in Nigeria using a structured questionnaire.
Ater, P.I., Asogwa, B.C., Umeh, Joseph Chinedu   +2 more
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Determinants of Pesticide Use in Food Crop Production in Southeastern Nigeria

Agriculture, 2018
The present study examines pesticide use in producing multiple food crops (i.e., rice, yam, and cassava) and identifies the range of socio-economic factors influencing pesticide use by 400 farmers from Ebonyi and Anambra states of Southeastern Nigeria ...
Sanzidur Rahman, Chidiebere Daniel Chima
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Towards Responsible Mining in Africa: Problematising the Environmental and Public Health Concerns of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been emerging media reports on the impact of cyanide and mercury use in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) operations on community health, especially among pregnant and non‐pregnant women, ASGM miners, and children in rural Africa.
Francis Arthur‐Holmes, Emmanuel Selasi Tomude, Steve Ahenkora Amoako   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ preferential choice decisions to alternative cassava value chain strands in Morogoro rural district, Tanzania [PDF]

The study was conducted to determine farmers’ preferential choice decision of alternative cassava value chain strands and as well as factors behind such decisions in Morogoro rural District, Tanzania. Factor analysis was first used to reduce and identify
Mdoe, N. Y. S., Sewando, Ponsian T., Mutabazi, K. D. S   +2 more
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EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIALIZATION ON POVERTY STATUS OF SMALLHOLDER CASSAVA FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
Transforming the subsistence-oriented cassava production system into a market-oriented production system as a way of increasing the smallholder farmers' income, reducing poverty and thus increasing their welfare has been a policy focus in Nigeria.
Jamiu Ayomide HUSSAYN, Dominic Midawa GULAK, Kazeem Oriyomi ABOABA, Oluwadayo Olusola KESHINRO   +3 more
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