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This article provides a description of an agricultural household survey data of rice growers collected in Ecuador between October 2014 and March 2015. The household survey was implemented using a structured questionnaire administered among 1,028 households in the main rice production areas of Ecu...


Marin Salazar, Diego ArmandoOrrego-Varón, MayraYanez, FernandoMendoza, LuisGarcía, María AlejandraTwyman, JenniferAndrade, RobertLabarta, Ricardo[Household survey data of adoption of improved varieties and management practices in rice production, Ecuador.]Household survey data of adoption of improved varieties and management practices in rice production, Ecuador.

The importance of poverty reduction to the world development agenda has motivated greater interest in the geographic dimensions of poverty and food security. This special issue of Food Policy includes examples of poverty and food security mapping used to support policy development in agricultural...


Hyman, GlennLarrea, CFarrow, Andrew[Methods, results and policy implications of poverty and food security mapping assessments]Methods, results and policy implications of poverty and food security mapping assessments
Nolt, Barry L.Pineda López, BenjamínVelasco, Ana Cecilia[Surveys of cassava plantations in Colombia for virus and virus- like diseases]Surveys of cassava plantations in Colombia for virus and virus- like diseases

Drawing on results of a survey of Ugandan farmers who previously hosted bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) varietal trials, this paper reports on the adoption of three new bush bean cultivars and assesses the usefulness of post-trial surveys as a methodology for obtaining reliable early feedback on var...


David, S.Wortmann, Charles S.Kasozi, SMugisha-Mutetikka, M[Using trial follow-up surveys to assess varietal adoption: The case of beans]Using trial follow-up surveys to assess varietal adoption: The case of beans

Strong gradients of decreasing soil fertility are found with increasing distance from the homestead within smallholder African farms, due to differential resource allocation. As nutrient use efficiency varies strongly along these gradients, such heterogeneity must be considered when designing soi...


Tittonell, Pablo A.Vanlauwe, BernardLeffelaar, P.A.Shepherd, Keith D.Giller, Ken E.[Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya. II. Within-farm variability in resource allocation, nutrient flows and soil fertility status]Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya. II. Within-farm variability in resource allocation, nutrient flows and soil fertility status

We ecologists realize that individually we have a variety of interests, knowledge, and skills among us; and we appreciate how those attributes differentially apply to the diverse tasks we address in our various “practices” of ecology. Less obvious to us, however, is the variety of intellectual to...


Reiners, William A.Pappas, Gregory S.Lockwood, Jeffrey A.Reiners, Derek S.Prager, Steven D.[Conceptual toolboxes for twenty-first-century ecologists]Conceptual toolboxes for twenty-first-century ecologists

This article provides a description of intra-household survey data that were collected in Uganda and Tanzania in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The surveys were implemented using a structured questionnaire administered among 585 households in Uganda and 608 in Tanzania. Information on decision maki...


Mwungu, Chris MiyinziMwongera, CarolineShikuku, K.M.Nyakundi, FridahTwyman, JenniferWinowiecki, Leigh A.Ampaire, Edidah L.Acosta, MariolaLäderach, Peter[Survey data of intra-household decision making and smallholder agricultural production in northern Uganda and southern Tanzania]Survey data of intra-household decision making and smallholder agricultural production in northern Uganda and southern Tanzania

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