The Guinean rain forest (GRF) of West Africa, identified over 20 years ago as a global biodiversity hotspot, had reduced to 113,000 km2 at the start of the new millennium which was 18% of its original area. The principal driver of this environmental change has been the expansion of extensive smal...
Gockowski, J.
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Sonwa, D.J.
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[Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO2 emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa]
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Cocoa intensification scenarios and their predicted impact on CO2 emissions, biodiversity conservation, and rural livelihoods in the Guinea rain forest of West Africa
Located on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to conserve the main ecological functions of the primary forest, including a large part of its biodiversity. Nowadays these smallholder plantations are under threat. The regular rise of natural rubber ...
Therville, C.
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Feintrenie, L.
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Levang, P.
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[Farmers’ perspectives about agroforests conversion to plantations in Sumatra: lessons learnt fro m Bungo district (Jambi, Indonesia)]
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Farmers’ perspectives about agroforests conversion to plantations in Sumatra: lessons learnt fro m Bungo district (Jambi, Indonesia)
Irrigation for smallholder farming systems is an important approach for sustainable intensification and increased productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, provided investments in irrigation are properly targeted and accompanied by complementary improvements. Many GIS-based tools have been developed to...
Katic, Pamela G.
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Morris, J.
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[Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa
Migration and remittances has potential to improve development in rural areas but in Rwanda and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo empirical work is still limited. We used New Economics of Labour Migration as analytical framework to explain the role of migration and remittances on crop intensif...
Ochieng, J.
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Knerr, Beatrice
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Owuor, G.
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Ouma, Emily A.
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[Migration and agricultural intensification at origin: Evidence from farm households in Central Africa]
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Migration and agricultural intensification at origin: Evidence from farm households in Central Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a region beset with challenges, not least its ability to feed itself. Low agricultural productivity, exploding populations, and escalating urbanization have led to declining per capita food availability. In order to reverse this trend, crop production systems must inte...
Coyne, D.L.
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Cortada Gonzales, L.
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Dalzell, J.J.
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Claudius-Cole, A.O.
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Haukeland, S.
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Luambano, N.
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Talwana, H.
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[Plant-parasitic nematodes and food security in sub-saharan Africa]
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Plant-parasitic nematodes and food security in sub-saharan Africa
Background
Poor nutritional status during childhood and its long-term impact on economic growth and wellbeing is well known. This study assessed the nutritional status of children in selected communities in northern Ghana, to serve as baseline data for the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensifi...
Glover-Amengor, M.
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Agbemafle, I.
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Hagan, L.L.
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Mboom, F.P.
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Gamor, G.
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Larbi, Asamoah
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Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
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[Nutritional status of children 0-59 months in selected intervention communities in northern Ghana from the Africa RISING project in 2012]
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Nutritional status of children 0-59 months in selected intervention communities in northern Ghana from the Africa RISING project in 2012
There is a significant gap between the rhetoric of claims about adoption of farm-level natural resource management practices and the reality. New empirical evidence of low adoption from several developing countries suggests that on-farm natural resource management practices face significant const...
Stevenson, James
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Macours, Karen
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Krishnan, Lakshmi
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Place, Frank
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Spielman, David J.
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Hughes, Karl
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Vlek, Paul L.G.
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[Farmer adoption of plot- and farm-level natural resource management practices: between rhetoric and reality]
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Farmer adoption of plot- and farm-level natural resource management practices: between rhetoric and reality
This work analyses on-farm adjustments in land allocation and intensification in a commercial crop following the increases in market demand in a developing economy. Drawing from the survey conducted among common bean producers in Ethiopia in 2008, a two stage econometric method was used to invest...
Katungi, E
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Horna, D
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Gebeyehu, S
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Sperling, L.
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[Market access, intensification and productivity of Common bean in Ethiopia: a microeconomic analysis]
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Market access, intensification and productivity of Common bean in Ethiopia: a microeconomic analysis
There is limited information on the magnitude and determinants of household food insecurity (HFI) and how it relates to the nutritional status of pregnant women in Northern Ghana. The magnitude, determinants of HFI, and how it relates to the nutritional status of pregnant women were evaluated in ...
Saaka, M.
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Oladele, J.
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Larbi, Asamoah
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Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
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[Household food insecurity, coping strategies, and nutritional status of pregnant women in rural areas of northern Ghana]
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Household food insecurity, coping strategies, and nutritional status of pregnant women in rural areas of northern Ghana
Background
This paper devotes to determinants of crop–livestock diversification in the mixed farming systems in the Gudo Beret watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia. In the highland agro-ecologies, the mixed farming-dominated agriculture is persistently confronted with food insecurity, feed sc...
Mekuria, Wuletaw
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Mekonnen, Kindu
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[Determinants of crop–livestock diversification in the mixed farming systems: Evidence from central highlands of Ethiopia]
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Determinants of crop–livestock diversification in the mixed farming systems: Evidence from central highlands of Ethiopia