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Farming household types and their characterization in complex crop-livestock smallholder agricultural systems for contextual analysis and extension intervention: case of Riviridzi Catchment in Ntcheu
Typology of farming units (households and farms) is deemed essential for targeted research and development programs. We employ the sustainable livelihood framework to collect integrated dataset for household, landscape and ...
Bhoochetana: Process Documentation, A program that helped farmers come out of low productivity and poor economic status
To Kick start agricultural Growth rate for improving the livelihoods of 60% of population dependent on Agriculture, Government of
Karnataka undertook a mission project to unlock the potential of rainfed Agriculture across ...
Establishment of Seed Plots by Participatory Entrepreneurs
Wheat and lentil are important crops to ensure food and nutritional security in dryland region. However, yield of these crops is quite low. Farmers plant local varieties using their own unimproved seeds. Low crop yield ...
Evaluation of Bush and Climbing Beans under different Cropping Systems and Nutrient Management Regimes in Linthipe and Kandeu, Malawi
CIAT is undertaking action research based on mother-bay approach in Linthipe and Kandeu, in the Dedza and Ntcheu districts of Malawi, respectively. The overall aim is to improve bean production through introduction of ...
Feed and small ruminants in a business model that generates revenues and improves livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Niger
Though 90% of the rural population in Niger is livestock owners, the impact of this activity on incomes, nutrition and livelihoods is still very low. The main constraint is the availability of feed (cowpea hay, groundnut ...
Integrated production functions for main crop fields in Pontieba, south-western Burkina Faso: Empirical estimations for efficiency assessment and further integrated modelling
Understanding efficiencies of the uses of major inputs for smallholder cropping systems such as labour and fertilizer under heterogeneous site conditions are important for sustainable intensification management and policy. ...
Promoting utilization of alternative available feed to substitute commercial diets in smallholder beef production systems in the sub humid region in Zimbabwe
The objectives of this study are a) to demonstrate that forage legumes,
crop residues and poultry litter can be
used as supplementary feed in beef
cattle production;
b) to determine the economic impact of
beef feeding using ...
Smallholder agricultural livelihood livelihood type-specific behaviour analyses for better targeting adoption of sustainable land management: A demonstrative case analysis in Pontieba, south-western Burkina Faso
The support to the transition of Agricultural Livelihood System in dryland areas poses the need of better sizing actual farming system structure and functioning. This study was conducted in the frame of a research on dry ...
The potential of replacing conventional dairy supplements with forage legumebased diets in Zimbabwe’s smallholder dairy sector
The main objective of this study is to
determine the
effect of replacing
commercial diets with
forage legume diets on
VFI, milk yield, quality and
economic returns.
Final Report: Narrowing the yield gaps of barley-faba bean based cropping systems through knowledge-based pest management practices for improved food systems of smallholder farmers in the Highlands of Ethiopia
Smallholder agriculture is the most important sector of Ethiopia’s economy where more than 80% of the population reside in rural areas, and their main source of income is agriculture. Barley (food and malt) and faba bean ...