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This chapter assessed the influence of socioeconomic factors, plot characteristics, food security, and climatic variables on the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies in southern Tanzania. Using data collected from 357 households and 464 agricultural plots, a multivariate probi...


Mwungu, Chris MiyinziMwongera, CarolineShikuku, KelvinAcosta, MariolaLäderach, Peter[Determinants of Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies at Farm Plot Level: An Assessment from Southern Tanzania]Determinants of Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies at Farm Plot Level: An Assessment from Southern Tanzania
Autor: Legg, J.P.

Cassava is an important crop in many parts of the tropics, but it plays a particularly vital role in sustaining food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Diseases are the greatest biotic constraint to cassava production worldwide. Although the diversity of cassava pathogens is greatest in Latin Americ...


Legg, J.P.[Cassava diseases: ecology and control]Cassava diseases: ecology and control

Nuestra especie entró en grupos pequeños al continente americano a través de Beringia hace 20-15 000 años. Compartió con Siberia Oriental el chamanismo y con él la búsqueda de plantas y hongos alucinógenos y, como consecuencia, el conocimiento detallado de la flora y el continuo interés por exper...


Debouck, Daniel G.[Domesticaciones americanas: cuando la recursividad humana con ayuda de algunas plantas hace maravillas contra el peso de la geografía y de la migración original]Domesticaciones americanas: cuando la recursividad humana con ayuda de algunas plantas hace maravillas contra el peso de la geografía y de la migración original

Rice-fish farming: A food security alternative Rice-fish farming is a biological or clean production system that consists of the simultaneous farming of rice and fish on the same land and at the same time; in other words, in the plots flooded for rice cultivation. Rice is the main product and has...

La rizipiscicultura es un sistema de producción biológica o producción limpia, que consiste en la siembra simultánea de arroz y peces en un mismo terreno y al mismo tiempo, es decir, en los lotes que se inundan para el cultivo. El arroz es el producto principal y el de mayor importancia económica...


Degiovanni Beltramo, Víctor M.Atencio García, Víctor JulioCharry Mercado, Roger E.[Rizipiscicultura: alternativa para la seguridad alimentaria]Rizipiscicultura: alternativa para la seguridad alimentaria

In the coming decades, feeding the expanded global population nutritiously and sustainably will require substantial improvements to the global food system worldwide. The main challenge will be to produce more food with the same or fewer resources. Food security has four dimensions: food availabil...


Devaux, A.Goffart, J.Petsakos, A.Kromann, P.Gatto, M.Okello, J.J.Suarez, V.Hareau, G.[Global food security, contributions from sustainable potato agri-food systems.]Global food security, contributions from sustainable potato agri-food systems.

Much of the effort to include communities in conservation of large landscapes has been driven by interests outside the savannas, either by national governments, NGOs, or foreign conservationists (Neumann 2002, Brockington et al. 2008). Once included in conservation planning only as an afterthough...


Reid, Robin S.Kaelo DNkedianye DKKristjanson, Patricia M.Said, Mohammed YahyaGalvin, K.A.Gambill I[The Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem and Greater Maasailand: Building the Role of Local Leaders, Institutions, and Communities]The Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem and Greater Maasailand: Building the Role of Local Leaders, Institutions, and Communities

Insect pest and disease outbreaks are driven by the environmental factors, presence of susceptible crop plants, and insect pest or pathogen population. Future climate variability and climate change (CC) are expected to modify the distribution and severity of pest damage and disease epidemics. In ...


Salam, MoinKrupnik, Timothy J.Montes, CarlosNessa, BodrunKhatun, Mst. TuhinaAli, Md. PannaShahrin, SumonaIshtiaque, SheikhMannan, Md. AbdulHassan, SM QuamrulAziz, MazharUddin, M. Shahab[Potential impact of climate change on crop insect pests and diseases in Bangladesh: Future scenarios and strategies for climate services]Potential impact of climate change on crop insect pests and diseases in Bangladesh: Future scenarios and strategies for climate services

The pages of this extensive book document the potential of a great many North American plants to enhance the productivity, sustainability, and nutritional quality of crops or to be further developed into important cultivated species in their own right. But this potential can only be realized if t...


Khoury, Colin K.Greene, Stephanie L.Williams, Karen A.Kantar, Michael B.Marek, Laura F.[Conservation and Use of the North American Plant Cornucopia: The Way Forward]Conservation and Use of the North American Plant Cornucopia: The Way Forward

Hodgkin, T.Hunter, D.Wood, S.Demers, N.[Agricultural biodiversity and food security]Agricultural biodiversity and food security
Sinclair, Fergus L.Pert, P.Jarvis, D.Lloyd, G.J.Muthuri, C.Ceroni, M.Grace, DeliaAndreini, MarcPagella, Tim[Managing agroecosystem services]Managing agroecosystem services

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