Intensification of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is necessary to address rural poverty
and natural resource degradation. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) is a means to enhance crop productivity
while maximizing the agronomic efficiency (AE) of applied inputs, and can th...
Concerns over climate change and climatic variability are growing in South Asia because of the potential detrimental impacts of these phenomena on livelihoods. Such growing concerns demonstrate a need to assess how farmers simultaneously cope with extreme events and adapt to climatic variability....
Bhatta, Gopal Datt
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[Coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability: a cross-country study of smallholder farmers in South Asia]
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Coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability: a cross-country study of smallholder farmers in South Asia
Developing the rural agricultural input markets in sub-Saharan Africa can improve the current low productivity of smallholder farmers. Malawi has seen significant efforts in addressing the availability of agricultural inputs at village level in the last few years; for example, the improvement of ...
Farrow, Andrew
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Risinamhodzi, K
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Zingore, Shamie
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Delve, Robert J.
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[Spatially targeting the distribution of agricultural input stockists in Malawi]
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Spatially targeting the distribution of agricultural input stockists in Malawi
Sustainable Intensification (SI) in agriculture is fronted as a promising approach to increase agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Technologies that can lead to realization of the SI goal are available but one of the key challenges is the low reach among smallholder farmers d...
Sseguya, H.
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Bekunda, Mateete A.
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Muthoni, F.
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Flavain, F.
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Masigo, J.
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[Training transfer for sustainable agricultural intensification in Tanzania: critical considerations for scaling - up]
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Training transfer for sustainable agricultural intensification in Tanzania: critical considerations for scaling - up
Stochastic production frontiers of irrigated and rain-fed smallholder agriculture in Tigray, Ethiopia, were fitted to a random sample of irrigated and rain-fed plots to compare their technical efficiencies. Propensity Score Matching Method was applied to select rain-fed plots with comparable bio-...
Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria
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Namara, Regassa E.
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Holden, S.
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[Technical efficiency of irrigated and rain-fed smallholder agriculture in Tigray, Ethiopia: a comparative stochastic frontier production function analysis.]
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Technical efficiency of irrigated and rain-fed smallholder agriculture in Tigray, Ethiopia: a comparative stochastic frontier production function analysis.
Adoption of animal traction in sub-Saharan Africa has historically been slow and stagnant. This is despite considerable efforts by researchers and development planners to introduce the technique among smallholder semi-subsistence farmers in a large number of countries. Based on a simulation model...
Jansen, G.P.
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[Ex-ante profitability of animal traction investments in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger and Nigeria]
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Ex-ante profitability of animal traction investments in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger and Nigeria
This paper examines the water dimensions of recent large-scale land acquisitions for biofuel production in the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo and Northern regions of Ghana. Using secondary sources of data complemented by individual and group interviews, the paper reveals an almost universal lack of conside...
Williams, Timothy O.
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Gyampoh, B.
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Kizito, Fred
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Namara, Regassa E.
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[Water implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana.]
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Water implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana.
Strategies for increasing the development and use of groundwater for agriculture over much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are urgently needed. Expansion of small-scale groundwater irrigation offers an attractive option to smallholder farmers to overcome unreliable wet-season rainfall and enhance dry...
Pavelic, Paul
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Favreau, G.
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Villholth, Karen G.
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[Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.]
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Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.