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SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN MALAWI [PDF]
In this paper we analyze the factors that influence the productivity of maize among smallholder farmers. We use farm-household survey data in order to compare the productivity of smallholder maize production under integrated (ISFM) and chemical-based ...
Sauer, Johannes, Tchale, Hardwick
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Potential distribution and susceptibility of Coffea arabica L. to climate change impacts
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Ecological niche models (ENMs) are vital for understanding the impact of historical factors on ecosystems and predicting future climate change scenarios. These models help assess how environmental shifts affect agricultural species like coffee, which supports millions of people globally.
Yuliana Grisel García‐Martínez +1 more
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Developing jatropha projects with smallholder farmers
, 2012 Based on the observation, the analysis and the comparison of four smallholder based jatropha projects developed by Eco-Carbone, located in distinct climatic and socio-economical conditions, this paper aims at drawing on the operator’s experience to show what are the social, technical and economical prerequisites and the necessary management strategies,
Anne-Claire Degail, Julien Chantry
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Smallholder Household Maize Production and Marketing Behavior in Zambia: Implications for Policy [PDF]
CSO/MACO nationally-representative rural surveys provide important insights on smallholder crop marketing behavior from the 2001 and 2004 harvests. Only about 25 percent of smallholder farmers in Zambia sold maize in both seasons, and about 15-20 percent
Beaver, Margaret +2 more
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Building capacity in vector‐borne plant virus research: The CONNECTED Network
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Plant viruses spread by insects decimate crop yields globally, causing food security challenges in vulnerable areas, including regions of Africa. Interdisciplinary research is needed to protect future crop supplies. CONNECTED, the Community Network for African Vector‐Borne Plant Viruses, increased research capacity in Central, East, West and Southern ...
Nina F. Ockendon‐Powell +8 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 Lack of access to markets occasioned by missing market information has constrained market participation among smallholder farmers in developing countries.
T. Sikundla, A. Mushunje, B.E. Akinyemi
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are stable crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi +5 more
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Developing jatropha projects with smallholder farmers
Field Actions Science Reports, 2013 Basándose en la observación, el análisis y la comparación de cuatro proyectos con jatrofa basados en la agricultura a pequeña escala desarrollados por Eco-Carbone, ubicados en distintas condiciones climáticas y socio-económicas, este artículo pretende recurrir a la experiencia del desarrollador para mostrar cuáles son los prerrequisitos sociales ...
Degail, Anne-Claire, Chantry, Julien
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Why did the People’s Development Bank of Mozambique fail? Lessons from successful government development banks from Asia and Africa [PDF]
Despite many decades of experimentation with supplier-led approaches to credit in many developing countries, limited success has been achieved in terms of improving access to credit for smallholder farmers. In the case of Mozambique, previous attempts by
Manganhele, Anina Trefina
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Resilience of Organic versus Conventional Farming Systems in Tropical Africa: The Kenyan Experience [PDF]
, 2012 In Kenya, agriculture is largely carried out by smallholder farmers, in a mixed farming noncommercialised setting where application of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides is minimal.
Fließbach, Andreas +3 more
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