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Improvements in agricultural land and labour productivity are needed to meet the growing food demand and reduce farmer poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of this study were to (i) quantify variation in labour inputs, yield and labour productivity among rice fields; (ii) elicit factors ...


Paresys, L.Saito, K.Dogliotti, S.Malézieux, E.Huat, J.Kropff, M.J.Rossing, W.A.H.[Feeding the world while reducing farmer poverty? Analysis of rice relative yield and labour productivity gaps in two Beninese villages.]Feeding the world while reducing farmer poverty? Analysis of rice relative yield and labour productivity gaps in two Beninese villages.

It is widely reported that women provide the bulk of food production labour in Africa. Since efficient targeting of improved technologies demands an understanding of who is likely to use them, and new farm technologies have often been inappropriate for women's needs, this paper presents the relat...


Enete, A.Nweke, F.Tollens, E.[Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA]Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA
Tarawali, G.Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.Kaufmann, Ralph R. von[Main-d'oeuvre requise pour la culture du mais sur des jacheres et sur des sols precedemment voues a Stylosanthes - zone subhumide du Nigeria]Main-d'oeuvre requise pour la culture du mais sur des jacheres et sur des sols precedemment voues a Stylosanthes - zone subhumide du Nigeria

In the process of developing an improved fallow system based on forage legumes, the potential interest of crop-livestock farmers in enhancing soil fertility restoration and dry-season feed supply was assessed during a socio-economic study on 11 farms of settled agro-pastoralists in the subhumid z...


Muhr, L.Tarawali, Shirley A.Peters, MichaelSchultze-Kraft, Rainer[Acceptability of forage legumes for improved fallows - first experiences of agro-pastoralists in subhumid southwest Nigeria]Acceptability of forage legumes for improved fallows - first experiences of agro-pastoralists in subhumid southwest Nigeria

A household survey was conducted in six villages of Busia District, Kenya, to assess people's willingness to contribute labor and money to control the tsetse flies that transmit trypanosomiasis. A Heckman's two-step model was estimated to identify factors affecting the probability that a responde...


Echessah, P.N.Swallow, B.M.Kamara, D.W.Curry, J.J.[Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya]Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya

In sub-Saharan Africa, unexploited land and water resources in wetlands represent an important potential for intensified, sustainable and food-secure farms through rice production and market gardening. The lack of uptake of cropping in wetlands may be related to the ways in which resources are di...


Paresys, L.Malézieux, E.Huat, J.Kropff, K.J.Rossing, W.A.H.[Between all-for-one and each-for-himself: On-farm competition for labour as determinant of wetland cropping in two Beninese villages]Between all-for-one and each-for-himself: On-farm competition for labour as determinant of wetland cropping in two Beninese villages
Autor: Wadley, R.L.

In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indone...


Wadley, R.L.[Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan]Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan
Coppock, D.L.[Water and forage development interventions: More benefits to pastoral women or their calves?]Water and forage development interventions: More benefits to pastoral women or their calves?

Presents results of a study of a beef-fattening project in which smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali were provided with credit to purchase mature cattle for fattening programme. The daily weight gain in animals kept permanently housed was on average higher than in animals which were...


Bartholomew, P.W.Ly, R.Nantoume, H.Kone, N'G.Traoré, B.Khibe, T.Sissoko, K.Baur, H.[Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali]Dry-season cattle fattening by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of Mali

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