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The potential of replacing conventional dairy supplements with forage legume-based diets in Zimbabwe’s smallholder dairy sector
The effect of replacing commercial supplements with isoenergetic and isonitrogenous velvet bean-, cowpeaand
lablab-based supplements on milk yield, milk quality and economic returns in smallholder crossbred dairy
cows was ...
Partnerships for Unlocking Potential in Groundnut Value Chains in Zimbabwe
Groundnuts are an important crop in Zimbabwe, grown by a large proportion of smallholder farmers (36%); groundnuts are second after
maize in terms of area coverage. Groundnuts can provide an important source of food and ...
The adoption of a portfolio of sustainable agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Climate change and variability and soil fertility depletion are among the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing per capita food production for smallholder farmers in developing countries. To tackle these challenges, ...
Promoting the use of home-mixed supplements as alternatives to commercial supplements in smallholder beef production systems in the subhumid region of Zimbabwe
The economic and performance effect of supplementing smallholder cattle by substituting commercial feed with
iso-nitrogenous and iso-energetic diets based on alternative protein sources was investigated in two trials. In ...
Forage seed production and trade as a pathway out of poverty in the smallholder sector: lessons from the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project
The major challenge to adoption of improved forage technologies in the smallholder farming sector is poor accessibility
to seed of improved cultivars. Since 2012, the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Improved ...