The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of development interventions on the population of three Nigerien villages that differ in terms of their agro-ecological, social and economic characteristics. This is performed by simulating the behavior of individuals in an agent-based modeling fra...
Saqalli, M.
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Bielders, Charles L.
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Defourny, Pierre
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[Targeting rural development interventions: Empirical agent-based modeling in Nigerien villages]
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Targeting rural development interventions: Empirical agent-based modeling in Nigerien villages
Gerard, Bruno G.
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[Crop residue tradeoffs in crop-livestock systems—Improving livelihood and environmental benefits from crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Regional case studies]
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Crop residue tradeoffs in crop-livestock systems—Improving livelihood and environmental benefits from crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Regional case studies
Due to increased population pressure and limited availability of fertile land, farmers on desert fringes increasingly rely on marginal land for agricultural production, which they have learned to rehabilitate with different technologies for soils and water conservation. One such method is the ind...
Fatondji, D.
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Martius, C.
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Bielders, Charles L.
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Vlek, Paul L.G.
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Bationo, B. André
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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[Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield, nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger]
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Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield, nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger
Development issues in developing countries belong to complex situations where society and environment are intricate. However, such sites lack the necessary amount of reliable, checkable data and information, while these very constraining factors determine the populations' evolutions, such as vill...
Saqalli, M.
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Bielders, Charles L.
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Defourny, Pierre
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[Simulating rural environmentally and socio-economically constrained multi-activity and multi-decision societies in a low-data context: A challenge through empirical agent-based modeling]
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Simulating rural environmentally and socio-economically constrained multi-activity and multi-decision societies in a low-data context: A challenge through empirical agent-based modeling
This article presents the results of a methodology based on an extensive sociological fieldwork in three different sites settled along a gradient of aridity in Nigerien Sahel. This fieldwork led to build a set of rules for the behaviour of individuals in non-pastoralist villages. We implemented t...
Saqalli, M.
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Bielders, Charles L.
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Defourny, Pierre
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[Testing the impact of social forces on the evolution of Sahelian farming systems: a combined agent-based modeling and anthropological approach]
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Testing the impact of social forces on the evolution of Sahelian farming systems: a combined agent-based modeling and anthropological approach
Intensification of agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is considered a pre-condition for alleviation of rural poverty. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been promoted to achieve this goal, based on three principles: minimum tillage, soil surface cover, and diversified crop rotations....
Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Wendt, J.
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Giller, Ken E.
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Corbeels, Marc
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Nolte, C.
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[A fourth principle is required to define conservation agriculture in subSaharan Africa: the appropriate use of fertilizer to enhance crop productivity]
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A fourth principle is required to define conservation agriculture in subSaharan Africa: the appropriate use of fertilizer to enhance crop productivity
Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Wendt, J.
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Giller, Ken E.
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Corbeels, Marc
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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[Response to Sommer et al. (2014) Fertiliser use is not required as a fourth principle to define conservation agriculture]
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Response to Sommer et al. (2014) Fertiliser use is not required as a fourth principle to define conservation agriculture
Since the paper by Giller et al. (2009), the debate surrounding the suitability of conservation agriculture (CA) for African smallholders has remained polarized between proponents and opponents. The debate also gave rise to a few studies that attempted to identify the “niche” where CA would fit i...
Baudron, Frédéric
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Thierfelder, Christian
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Nyagumbo, Isaiah
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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[Where to Target Conservation Agriculture for African Smallholders? How to Overcome Challenges Associated with its Implementation? Experience from Eastern and Southern Africa]
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Where to Target Conservation Agriculture for African Smallholders? How to Overcome Challenges Associated with its Implementation? Experience from Eastern and Southern Africa
Accelerated soil-nitrifier activity and rapid nitrification are the cause of declining nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) and enhanced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from farming. Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) is the ability of certain plant roots to suppress soil-nitrifier activity through...
Subbaraoa, Guntur V.
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Arango, Jacobo
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Masahiro, Kishii
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Hooper, A.M.
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Yoshihashi, Tadashi
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Ando, Y.
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Nakahara, Kazuhiko
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Deshpande, Santosh
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Ortiz Monasterio, Ivan
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Ishitani, Manabu
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Peters, Michael
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Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Lata, Jean-Christophe
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Tobita, Satoshi
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Braun, Hans J.
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Kommerell, Victor
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Tohme, Joseph M.
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Iwanaga, Masaru
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[Genetic mitigation strategies to tackle agricultural GHG emissions: The case for biological nitrification inhibition technology]
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Genetic mitigation strategies to tackle agricultural GHG emissions: The case for biological nitrification inhibition technology