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Agricultural livelihood systems typology for coping with diversity in smallholder farming system research: A demonstrative case in South-western Burkina Faso
Smallholder farms’ populations are characterized by their heterogeneity giving the diversity of farms’ livelihood settings. Integrated farming system modelling therefore requires a preliminary clear identification of the ...
How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation
There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which conclusions from simulation analysis for a ...
Provisional analytical procedures for mapping MFS, their socio-ecological context, and system performance
A methodological approach for mapping mixed farming systems (MFS) and typologies at national and sub-national levels is proposed and described, with concrete system-based analytical pathway and suggested data sources. The ...
Coupling crop diversification, soil and water conservation, soil fertility management, and pest and weed control in Lentil-Chickpea zones of Ethiopia
The study aims at understanding factors determining concurrent farmers' strategies for sustainable intensification such as crop diversification, soil and water conservation, soil fertility management, and pest and weed ...
MASSAI: Multi-agent system for simulating sustainable agricultural intensification of smallholder farms in Africa
The research and development needed to achieve sustainability of African smallholder agricultural and natural systems has led to a wide array of theoretical frameworks for conceptualising socioecological processes and ...
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability of Agricultural Livelihood Systems: Ethiopian Stakeholders' Perspectives. Multi-stakeholder Workshop Report
The workshop was initiated in the frame of the Project GLDC-FP3: Integrated Farm-Household Management under the Activity 3.3.6: Criteria & Indicators of ALS Sustainability. This workshop aimed the farmer’s self-exploration ...
Geoinformatics Options by Contexts for Sustainable Livestock Management (GeOC4SLiM) - An User Manual with Focus on Interfaces and Operational Functions
Sustainable Livestock Management (SLiM) are required to interrelated UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on poverty alleviation, achieved food security, improved nutrition, promoted sustainable agriculture and land ...
Nutrient flow modelling for assessing the resource criticality of heterogeneous agricultural systems: A case study in Southwestern Burkina Faso
Despite the many advantages of sustainable intensification (SI), the level of adoption of SI practices in African smallholding farms is still very low, posing the need for adequate methods for monitoring farm sustainability. ...
The role of responsive heterogeneity in sub-Saharan smallholder farming sustainability: socio-economic and biophysical determinants of mineral and organic fertilizers used in South Western Burkina Faso
Sustainable soil nutrient management (SNM) is important for improving soil resources and food security in sub-Saharan African countries. Inherent livelihood diversity may lead to differences in household behavior in the ...
Agricultural Livelihood Types and Type-Specific Drivers of Crop Production Diversification: Evidence from Aral Sea Basin Region
Understanding the factors driving the farmers’ decisions to diversify their crop production is important for management strategies and policies promoting climate-smart agricultural development. Options for diversification ...