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Determinants of integrated soil fertility management technologies adoption by smallholder farmers in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern Africa
Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) technologies have proven to be viable options for improving
land productivity and increasing yield. However, adoption of the set of complementary technologies that
are required ...
Commercializing smallholder value chains for goats in Mozambique: A system dynamics approach
Goat producers in Inhassoro follow traditional management practices that lead to low supply of low quality goats. This has negative impacts on profitability, and on market access. Traders who buy in the Inhassoro locality ...
Effects of burning on soil macrofauna in a savanna-woodland under different experimental fuel load treatments
In West African savanna-woodland, the use of prescribed burning as a management tool has ecological
implications for the soil biota. Yet, the effects of fire on soil inhabiting organisms are poorly understood.
The aim of ...
La parité hommes-femmes dans le secteur agroforestier: Incidences pour la recherche-action
Les femmes en Afrique subsaharienne contribuent
énormément à l’économie agricole, toutefois, leur
accès limité, par rapport aux hommes, aux
ressources et opportunités de production, les
empêchent d’atteindre une production ...
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 ...
Effect of triple-layer hermetic bagging on mould infection and aflatoxin contamination of maize during multi-month on-farm storage in Kenya
Field trials were conducted in small-scale farmers' grain stores in an aflatoxin endemic region to assess
the effect of storing maize in triple layer hermetic (PICS™) bags on aflatoxin contamination. Shelled
maize grain ...