Crop residues (CR) have become a limited resource in mixed crop-livestock farms. As a result of the increasing demand and low availability of alternative resources, CR became an essential resource for household activities, especially for livestock keeping; a major livelihood element of smallholde...
Valbuena, Diego
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Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
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Erenstein, Olaf
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Teufel, Nils
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Swain, B.B.
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Mekonnen, Kindu
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Germaine, I.
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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[Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia]
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Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Agriculture in eastern Africa is predominantly rainfed and maize is a major food crop, primarily produced for home consumption and the market by small-scale family farms. The study characterized farm households in the drought prone maize growing areas of eastern Africa synthesizing data from para...
Erenstein, Olaf
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Kassie, Girma T.
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Langyintuo A
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Mwangi W
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[Characterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa]
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Characterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa
There is an increasing recognition of climate change, and that it is likely to result, inter alia, in more erratic rainfall that will affect Africa’s predominantly rainfed agriculture. Much of Africa’s current rainfed agriculture is already variously exposed to weather vagaries such as dry spells...
Erenstein, Olaf
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Kassie, Girma T.
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Mwangi W
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[Comparative analysis of maize based livelihoods in drought prone regions of eastern Africa: adaptation lessons for climate change]
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Comparative analysis of maize based livelihoods in drought prone regions of eastern Africa: adaptation lessons for climate change
Laser land leveling has been increasingly adopted in the irrigated
rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping
system in the state of Haryana (India), located in the
north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains. Still, many farmers have
applied it to only a fraction of their land. In this ...
Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash
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Rahut, Dil Bahadur
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Maharjan, Sofina
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Erenstein, Olaf
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[Factors determining the adoption of laser land leveling in the irrigated rice–wheat system in Haryana, India]
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Factors determining the adoption of laser land leveling in the irrigated rice–wheat system in Haryana, India