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Transforming Agricultural Water Management for Healthy People and Planet: Thinking Beyond Water

open access: yesIrrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of Thinking Beyond Water, a transdisciplinary paradigm that reframes agricultural water management (AWM) as a systems catalyst for planetary health, equity, justice and resilience. Moving beyond conventional irrigation‐centric models, we reimagine AWM through integrative frameworks such as the planetary ...
Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-smart smallholders

open access: yes, 2012
Climate-smart smallholders /Paul Kagame & Kanayo F Nwanze, Project Syndicate, 13/03/2012 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-smart-smallholders Until the world’s small farmers adopt a series of necessary changes, climate talks such as the
Danièle Revel
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Edaphic Controls Override Climatic and Management Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Southern African Agroecosystems

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Understanding the relative importance of climatic, edaphic, and management controls on soil organic carbon (SOC) is essential for improving SOC prediction and land management in data‐scarce agroecosystems. Aim This study quantified SOC drivers across Southern African agroecosystems using 655 observations covering climatic variables,
Samuel Ayodele Mesele   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of natural ensiling additives with tropical grasses: Physicochemical properties, in vitro fermentation characteristics, and microbial community diversity indices

open access: yesJSFA reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Improving feed quality, availability, and cost‐effectiveness is a big challenge for livestock to ensure animal‐derived food for nutritional security. The aim of the study was to find out how some natural ensiling additives affect physicochemical properties, proximate composition, microbial population, in vitro fermentation ...
A. B. M. Rubayet Bostami   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risks, resources and reason: understanding smallholder decisions around farming system interventions in Eastern Indonesia

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2016
Adoption of new cattle management practices by Indonesian smallholders occurs less as a ‘technology transfer’ in the classical sense but rather as a series of conscious decisions by farming households weighing risks and resources as well as matching ...
Clemens M. Grünbühel   +1 more
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Linking smallholders to markets

open access: yes, 2015
"Access to guaranteed markets for produce and for the acquisition of inputs is a major problem confronting smallholders... The questions addressed by this research are: (a) how can agricultural contracts be enforced in the face of Ghana’s weak legal ...
Al-Hassan, Ramatu M.; Sarpong, Daniel Bruce; Mensah-Bonsu, Akwasi; Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, Legon
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From niche to scale: enabling factors for saline agriculture in the North Sea and Mediterranean regions

open access: yesJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Salinisation is one of the most pressing environmental challenges affecting agricultural land and food production worldwide. Although the challenge is substantial, saline agriculture represents a promising approach that integrates soil, water and crop management practices tailored to salt‐affected lands, enabling both adaptation to ...
Pim van Tongeren, Katarzyna Negacz
wiley   +1 more source

Mycotoxin management in the cereal supply chain: Advanced detection, detoxification, and smart packaging strategies

open access: yesJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract Mycotoxins remain a persistent threat to the safety and quality of cereal grains and other agricultural products, and their impact on human health continues to raise global concerns. In many situations, the practices traditionally used to control these toxins are no longer sufficiently effective. They can be costly, difficult to implement on a
Abolfazl Asqardokht‐Aliabadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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