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How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Todd Andrew Crane, Art R. P. J. Dewulf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intercropping tea plants with different leguminous green manures enhances soil nutrient availability, thereby reshaping the structure and functional potential of soil microbial communities. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Liu Q, Wang LX, Chang PY, Zhang JG, Li C, Shuang QY, Zhang CY, Lu ZK, Wang XL, Jiang XF.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can Environmental Markets Pay for More Sustainable Farm Dams? A Cost–Benefit Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm dams are widespread artificial waterbodies that play a critical role in agricultural water security. Enhancing these systems through sustainable interventions such as fencing, hardened access points, and revegetation can improve water quality and deliver carbon and biodiversity co‐benefits.
K. U. D. N. Hansani, Lukas Schuster, Peter I. Macreadie, Kym Whiteoak, Martino E. Malerba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Intercropping with Different Leguminous Green Manures on the Soil Environment and Tea Quality in Tea Plantations. [PDF]

Microorganisms
Zhou P, Chen M, Bao Q, Wang H, Wang Y, Fu H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Farmers’ Preferences for Sustainable Crop Protection: An Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes farmers' preferences for sustainable crop protection, focusing on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices by incorporating social‐psychological factors to capture economic and behavioral dimensions. Using data from German and Polish potato farmers, we apply an integrated choice and latent variable framework that combines
Philip K. Miriti, Fatima Lambarraa‐Lehnhardt, Stefan Sieber, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growth and nitrogen fixation of legumes at increased salinity under field conditions: implications for the use of green manures in saline environments. [PDF]

AoB Plants, 2015
Bruning B, van Logtestijn R, Broekman R, de Vos A, González AP, Rozema J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Grain legumes and green manures for soil fertility in Southern Africa: taking stock of progress

, 2003
This conference on the soil fertility benefits from green manures and grain legumes brought together 56 participants from Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, along with some further key presenters from Ethiopia, Kenya and the Netherlands.
Waddington, S.R.
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Business Model and Sustainable Development Goals for an Innovative Agricultural Waste Management: Distributed Biogas Production

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological progress and population growth have increased global pork demand; leading to a rise of methane emission from pig farming, a key contributor to climate change. Anaerobic digestion offers a sustainable solution by converting manure into biogas.
María‐Pilar Martínez‐Hernando, Carlos Reparaz, Roberto Paredes, Enrique Garcia‐Franco, Alfonso García Álvaro, Marcelo F. Ortega   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways for Value Chains to Strengthen Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: A European Cross‐Case Analysis Based on Stakeholders' Perceptions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mountain areas are hotspots of high natural and cultural value, but they face sustainability challenges. This research offers a quantitative cross‐case analysis of 21 case studies from mountain regions across 14 European countries, examining how local stakeholders perceive the contribution of mountain value chains to sustainable development ...
María Mar Delgado‐Serrano, Macario Rodríguez‐Entrena, Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source