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Zimbabwe National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018
The Food and Nutrition Security Policy and its implementation matrix provide a holistic framework in
which the National Nutrition Strategy will address the challenges of malnutrition in a multi- sectoral
manner. Further, ...
Simultaneous adoption of integrated soil fertility management technologies in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa
Empirical scientific evidence indicates that there is still room for increasing food production by improving land productivity. This study aimed at identifying the key determinants that govern farmers’ decisions to adopt ...
The role of women empowerment and labour dependency on adoption of integrated soil fertility management in Malawi
This paper explores the role of women empowerment and labour on enabling farmers to cross two hurdles: adopt and intensify soil fertility management (SFM), coming after six decades of SFM research that disseminated several ...
Digital soil mapping of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, organic carbon and their crop response thresholds in smallholder managed escarpments of Malawi
This study demonstrates how to predict and map soils within smallholder farms in fragile landscapes of Malawi. We used random forest algorithm and sentinel imagery to improve mapping of SOC and NPK farm level. SOC was ...
Ethiopian Journal of Crop Science
A Special Volume Dedicated to the 3rd Decadal National Conference on Food and Forage Legumes in Ethiopia 6 - 9 November 2016, EIAR, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Special Issue , Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018).
Common Bean Flagship Proposal Final Version
Strategic and applied research to meet the demand of beans in Africa and Latin America: A Common Bean Flagship proposal.
Agronomic Linked Data (AgroLD): A knowledge-based system to enable integrative biology in agronomy
Recent advances in high-throughput technologies have resulted in a tremendous increase in the amount of omics data produced in plant science. This increase, in conjunction with the heterogeneity and variability of the data, ...
The Food and Nutrition Security Policy for Zimbabwe in the Context of Economic Growth and Development
Zimbabwe has committed itself to a number of global, regional and national policy frameworks. The Food and Nutrition Security Policy provides a practical way forward towards fulfilling at least five of these existing ...
Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2018-2025
The Nutrition action plan addresses the nutritional needs of all population groups in Uganda and therefore was developed in the context of the available set of policy and legal frameworks. The Republic of Uganda Constitution ...
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 ...