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Assessing options for crop-livestock intensification in semi-arid Southern Zimbabwe: household typologies and community visions
Presentation of Assessing options for crop-livestock intensification in semi-arid Southern Zimbabwe: household typologies and community visions
Biomass in crop-livestock systems in the context of the livestock revolution
Mixed crop-livestock systems are the dominant source of livelihood supporting more
than 80% of people living in the developing world and producing 50% of world
cereals, around 34% of the global beef production and about ...
Assessing the potential of dual-purpose maize in southern Africa: A multi-level approach
This paper explores the potential and challenges of increasing production of food and feed on existing maize fields in mixed crop-livestock systems in the semi-arid areas of southern Africa. It integrates results from ...
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Crop residues (CR) have become a limited resource in mixed crop-livestock farms. As a result of the increasing demand and low availability of alternative resources, CR became an essential resource for household activities, ...
Integrated crop livestock systems: A key to sustainable intensification in Africa
Presentation of Integrated crop livestock systems: A key to sustainable intensification in Africa
Implementing Innovation Platforms: a guideline for Dryland Systems Research
We believe that innovation platforms (IPs) are a powerful vehicle for implementing and coordinating systems research and for sharing lessons with the wider research for development community. The guideline aims at handy ...
What are innovation platforms? Innovation platforms practice brief 1
Brief 1 on What are innovation platforms?
Optimizing Livelihood and Environmental Benefits from Crop Residues in Smallholder Crop-Livestock Systems in Southern Africa
Sustainable forms of intensification are needed to address the low and stagnant production of farming systems in southern Africa. More
efficient use of croplivestock
interactions can contribute to this; in this context the ...
Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Brief on Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms