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Improved Technology and Land Productivity among Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Ashanti Region, Ghana [PDF]

The study assessed the effect of improved technology on land productivity of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ashanti Region, Ghana. With data from 366 smallholders cocoa farmers productivity was shown to be linearly related to and the use of improved cocoa ...
Andah, E.K., Fosu, K.Y., Mensah-Bonsu, Akwasi, Wiredu, A.N.   +3 more
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Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Level of Vegetable Commercialization and Its Determinants Among Smallholder Farmers in Northwestern Ethiopia. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
Aynalem M, Zhou Y, Liu X, Liu X, Wang G, Wang A, Wosene G, Chu H.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of food insecurity among smallholder farmers in North Central Nigeria: policy implications. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Ogunfolaju MO, Ahmed TA, Ebenehi O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti, David Ludwig, Phil Macnaghten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of training on smallholder farmers' adoption of orange-fleshed sweet potato in Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Samuel L, de Barcellos MD, Aparo NO, Watabaji MD, De Steur H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Constrained spatial imaginaries of smallholder farmers

Research on spatial imaginaries, or collective sense-making processes relating to spaces and the material practices these frame, has shed light on smallholder farmers’ transformative power to facilitate sustainability transitions. Based on insights from participatory workshops to encourage transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation with smallholders in ...
Zuberi, Mehwish, Spies, Michael, Østergaard Nielsen, Jonas   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Climate requirements for cultivated Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica) and consequences for its use and development as a crop species

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The global coffee industry, supporting 25 million smallholder farmers, is vulnerable to climate change. Diversifying the coffee species portfolio beyond Arabica and robusta is a promising intervention. Liberica coffee could provide adaptive capacity, although its climate parameters for cultivation are poorly known.
Isobel M. J. Wild, Aaron P. Davis, Kenny Wee Ting Lee, Justin Moat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of soil and water conservation practices among smallholder farmers in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sametar MB, Duale MM.
europepmc   +1 more source