Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practices giving rise to the secondary forest are heterogeneous. Throughout Indonesia, swidden agriculture is evolving into more intensive land use. A mixed secondary forest t...
Oil palm is one of the most extensively cultivated biodiesel feedstocks worldwide, and expansion of its cultivation poses a significant threat to ecosystems, biodiversity and potentially the global climate. We evaluate the prospects of land sparing and wildlife-friendly farming, two contrasting a...
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris check for this species in other resources L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1...
Sperling, L.
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Munyanesa, S
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[Intensifying production among smallholder farmers: The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda]
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Intensifying production among smallholder farmers: The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
Agroforestry parklands in the Sahel provide a number of ecosystem services that help farmers cope better with climate change effects and thus reducing their vulnerability. However, parklands are threatened due to the decline in densities of species that are sensitive to drought and that might com...
Sanogo, K.
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Binam, J.
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Bayala, Jules
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Villamor, G.B.
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Kalinganire, A.
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Dodiomon, S.
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[Farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on ecosystem services delivery of parklands in southern Mali]
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Farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on ecosystem services delivery of parklands in southern Mali
Haile, Beliyou
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Azzarri, Carlo
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Roberts, C.
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Spielman, David J.
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[Targeting, bias, and expected impact of complex innovations on developing-country agriculture: Evidence from Malawi]
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Targeting, bias, and expected impact of complex innovations on developing-country agriculture: Evidence from Malawi
The applicability of statistical typologies that capture farming systems diversity in innovation and development projects would increase if their adaptability would be enhanced, so that newly encountered farms can be classified and used to update the typology. In this paper we propose Naïve Bayes...
Agriculture is a major occupation for people who inhabit the state of West Bengal in India. In order to boost irrigation, 570 tube wells per year were installed during 2002-2008, and 12,000 wells per year were installed during 2009-2013, contributing to higher groundwater (GW) withdrawal. However...
Chinnasamy, Pennan
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Agoramoorthy, G.
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[India's groundwater storage trends influenced by tube well intensification]
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India's groundwater storage trends influenced by tube well intensification
Agricultural technologies have boosted crop yield increases and household incomes, particularly, during the Green Revolution in Asia and some parts of Sub-Sahara Africa. However, adoption of yield enhancing technologies in the vegetable subsector is still low, particularly within smallholder farm...
Ochieng, J.
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Afari-Sefa, Victor
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Lukumay, Philipo J.
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Muthoni, F.
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Dominick, I.
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[Smallholder farmers' adoption of vegetable production technologies in Babati District, Tanzania]
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Smallholder farmers' adoption of vegetable production technologies in Babati District, Tanzania
Mutyasira, Vine
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Hoag, Dana
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Pendell, Dustin L.
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Manning, Dale T.
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Berhe, Melaku
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[Assessing the relative sustainability of smallholder farming systems in Ethiopian highlands]
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Assessing the relative sustainability of smallholder farming systems in Ethiopian highlands
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now...
Rockström, Johan
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Williams, J.
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Daily, G.
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Noble, A.D.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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Gordon, L.
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Wetterstrand, H.
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DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.
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Shah, M.
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Steduto, P.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Hatibu, N.
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Unver, O.
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Bird, J.
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Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele
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Smith, J.
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[Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability]
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Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability