It is often assumed that increasing agricultural productivity leads to a better diet. But in fact the relationship is more complex, and gender has an important role in mediating it. There are only a few harmonized datasets available, so the research team built its own tool and used it around the ...
Dr. Mark van Wijk, Co-PI of the Burkina Faso subaward funded by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification (SIIL), presents his project to the SIIL community.
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[2016 SIIL Annual Meeting - Sustainable intensification through better integration of crop and livestock production systems in Burkina Faso]
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2016 SIIL Annual Meeting - Sustainable intensification through better integration of crop and livestock production systems in Burkina Faso
During the December 2009 SLP meeting in Addis Ababa, Mark van Wijk (WUR) and colleagues presented some modelling work that could help quantify the tradeoffs between uses of crop residues - either incorporated in the soil to maintain soil fertility or fed to cattle. He emphasizes that the models h...