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Improving efficiency of knowledge and technology diffusion using community seed banks and farmer-to-farmer extension: experiences from Malawi

Agriculture & Food Security, 2022
Background Agri-innovations are mostly delivered to farmers through private and public sector-led institutions around the world, with various degrees of success in Malawi.
Patrick Okori, Wills Munthali, Harry Msere, Harvey Charlie, Soka Chitaya, Felix Sichali, Ethel Chilumpha, Teddie Chirwa, Anitha Seetha, Betty Chinyamuyamu, Emmanuel Monyo, Moses Siambi, Rowland Chirwa   +12 more
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Viewpoint – Seeing like a farmer – How irrigation policies may undermine farmer-led irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa

Water Alternatives, 2023
State and non-state support for farmer-led irrigation can help resource-poor farmers and mitigate adverse social and environmental impacts. However, emerging farmer-led irrigation policies are usually based on assumptions, objectives, and approaches ...
Annelieke Duker
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Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Intensification in Maize-Based Farming Systems of Katete District in Zambia

Land, 2022
Sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) has been hailed as the solution to increasing crop productivity among farmers. Despite the significant promotion, there still remains a dearth of information on the adoption and intensity of SAI in Zambia ...
Petan Hamazakaza, Gillian Kabwe, Elias Kuntashula, Anthony Egeru, Robert Asiimwe   +4 more
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Assessment of Farmer-Led Irrigation Development in Niger [PDF]

, 2021
Niger is a large landlocked country whose northern two-thirds lies within the Sahara Desert with a population of about 21.5 million people. Most of the population is concentrated in areas around the Niger River in the southwestern corner of the country and along its long southern border with Nigeria.
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Innovative Farmers programme: 10 years of farmer-led innovation

, 2022
Innovative Farmers programme: 10 years of farmer-led ...
Rebecca Swinn
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Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

Scientific Reports, 2023
Sustainable agriculture requires cooperative and coordinated action across multiple sectors and policy domains. However, farmer-stakeholder behaviors and action remain pivotal to sustainable food system management in many rural development contexts.
Moslem Savari, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh, Matthew Cotton   +3 more
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Farmer-led innovations: Best practices and lessons learnt in livestock rearing

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2016
The livestock sector contributes 4.11% in overall GDP, however, its full potential has not been utilized, necessitating need of innovations and the use of best practices for sustainable and profitable production.
RAKESH KUMAR, PREMLATA SINGH, VINAYAK R NIKAM, J P SHARMA   +3 more
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Green Investment Decisions and Coordination in a Green Agri-Product Supply Chain considering Risk Aversion and Bargaining Power under Different Channel Power Structures

Complexity, 2023
With eco-friendly green agriculture becoming the development trend of modern agriculture, how to make green investments and how to coordinate the supply chain become the key issues of agricultural green development.
Shizhen Bai, Yonggan Wang, Shenghua Zheng, Hao He   +3 more
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Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

, 2008
While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers.
Hellin, Jon, Dixon, John
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Assessment of the roles and farmer-preferred traits of sweetpotato in a crop-livestock farming system in Rwanda: implications for breeding dual-purpose varieties

Open Agriculture, 2020
In Rwanda, sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam) is a highly valued crop in a crop-livestock mixed farming system. The objective of this study was to assess the role of sweetpotato in the crop-livestock farming system, to identify farmer-preferred ...
Shumbusha Damien, Shimelis Hussein, Laing Mark, Rukundo Placide   +3 more
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