Classification constitutes an essential step in any realistic evaluation of the constraints and opportunities that exist within a farming system. In this study, cluster analysis was used to classify crop-livestock producers in three villages in western Niger into recommendation domains using a co...
Williams, Timothy O.
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[Identifying target groups for livestock improvement research: the classification of sedentary livestock producers in western Niger]
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Identifying target groups for livestock improvement research: the classification of sedentary livestock producers in western Niger
The sustainable intensification of African agriculture is gaining momentum with the compelling need to increase food and agricultural production. In Southern Africa, smallholder farming systems are predominately maize-based and subject to erratic climatic conditions. Farmer crop and soil manageme...
Mungai, L.M.
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Snapp, Sieglinde S.
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Messina, J.P.
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Chikowo, R.
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Smith, A.
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Anders, E.
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Richardson, R.B.
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Li, G.
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[Smallholder farms and the potential for sustainable intensification]
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Smallholder farms and the potential for sustainable intensification
Adoption rates of leguminous crops remain low in sub-Saharan Africa despite their potential role in improving nutrition, soil health, and food security. In this study we explored Malawian farmers’ perceptions of various legume attributes and assessed how these perceptions affected allocation of l...
Waldman, K.B.
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Ortega, D.L.
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Richardson, R.B.
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Clay, D.C.
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Snapp, Sieglinde S.
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[Preferences for legume attributes in maize-legume cropping systems in Malawi]
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Preferences for legume attributes in maize-legume cropping systems in Malawi
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
In complex mixed crop-livestock systems with limited resources and biomass scarcity, crop residues play an important but increasingly contested role. This paper focuses on farming systems in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe, where biomass production is limited and farmers integrate crop and livest...
Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
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Valbuena, Diego
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Masikati, Patricia
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Descheemaeker, Katrien
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Nyamangara, Justice
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Claessens, Lieven
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Erenstein, Olaf
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Rooyen, Andre F. van
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Nkomboni, D.
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[Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe]
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Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe
Bezabih, Melkamu
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Adie, Aberra
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Ravi, D.
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Prasad, K.V.S.V.
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Jones, Christopher S.
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Geleta, B.
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Tadesse, Z.
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Zegeye, H.
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Solomon, T.
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Blümmel, Michael
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[Variations in food-fodder traits of bread wheat cultivars released for the Ethiopian highlands]
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Variations in food-fodder traits of bread wheat cultivars released for the Ethiopian highlands
Onyango, A.A.
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Dickhoefer, Uta
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Rufino, M.C.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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Goopy, John P.
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[Temporal and spatial variability in the nutritive value of pasture vegetation and supplement feedstuffs for domestic ruminants in western Kenya]
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Temporal and spatial variability in the nutritive value of pasture vegetation and supplement feedstuffs for domestic ruminants in western Kenya
Agro-ecosystem productivity is highly dependent on moisture fluxes yet climate variability and climate change induce unpredictable dynamic interactions between farm-level and landscape-level flow of water resources. In this study, water balance dynamics at the farm level were investigated using r...
Kizito, Fred
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Panyan, E.K.
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Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Karbo, N.
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Avornyo, Franklin K.
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Tengan, K.
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[Water balance dynamics in mixed crop-livestock systems of northern Ghana: Unraveling the interactions between farm-level and landscape fluxes in the face of climate change]
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Water balance dynamics in mixed crop-livestock systems of northern Ghana: Unraveling the interactions between farm-level and landscape fluxes in the face of climate change
Common bean is widely grown as a food legume and the post-harvest crop residues (CR) (i.e. haulm + pod wall (HPW)) are valuable as ruminant feedstuffs. The yields and constituents indicative of nutritive value for ruminants of the HPW from a wide range of common bean genotypes (G) were examined a...
Dejene, Mesfin
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Dixon, Rob M.
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Woldemeskel, Endalkachew
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Walsh, Kerry B.
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McNeill, David
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[Variations in seed and post-harvest residue yields and residues quality of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) as a ruminant feedstuff]
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Variations in seed and post-harvest residue yields and residues quality of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) as a ruminant feedstuff
The world is under significant pressure. The human population is projected to increase by 30% over the next quarter of a century to reach 8.3 billion by 2030 (UNPP, 2008). During this period, in developing countries, there is likely to be a rapid increase in demand for livestock products, driven ...
Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Mixed crop livestock systems in the developing world: present and future]
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Mixed crop livestock systems in the developing world: present and future