For agriculture to play a role in climate change mitigation strategies to reduce
emissions from inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizer through a more balanced and
efficient use are necessary. Such strategies should align with the overarching
principle of sustainable intensification and will need to co...
Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Sapkota, Tek B.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Misiko, Michael T.
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Simon, Attwood
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[Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics?]
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Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics?
Women’s participation in rice production, postharvest and trading operations is well recognized in Africa (Dey, 1984; Nyanteng, 1985; Akande et al., 2007; WARDA et al., 2008; Bunch, 2011). In West Africa, for example, labour supplied by women for rice cultivation varies from 3% for floating rice ...
Agboh-Noameshie, A.R.
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Kabore A
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Misiko, Michael T.
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[Integrating gender considerations in rice research for development in Africa]
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Integrating gender considerations in rice research for development in Africa
It is remarkable that despite wide-ranging, in-depth studies over many years, almost no conservation agriculture (CA) studies consider gender and gender relations as a potential explanatory factor for (low) adoption rates. This is important because CA demands new ways of working with the farm sys...
Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Baudron, Frédéric
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Andersson, Jens A.
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Misiko, Michael T.
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Badstue, L.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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[Gender and conservation agriculture in East and Southern Africa: towards a research agenda]
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Gender and conservation agriculture in East and Southern Africa: towards a research agenda