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Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe
Smallholder beef subsector can potentially contribute to the nation’s development. The paper presents the
results of the value chain analysis of the beef sub sector in Zimbabwe. Data was gathered through cross
sectional ...
Evaluation of Feed Resources in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali in West Africa
Livestock are important assets to the rural poor in developing countries but are faced with the major
challenge of marked seasonal feed availability. A study was carried out to assess existing and potential
feed resources ...
Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India
Purpose: Changing climate has increasingly become a challenge for smallholder farmers.
Identification of technical, institutional and policy interventions as coping and adaptation
strategies, and exploring risks of their ...
Unveiling soil degradation and desertification risk in the Mediterranean basin: a data mining analysis of the relationships between biophysical and socioeconomic factors in agro-forest landscapes
Soil degradation and desertification processes in the Mediterranean basin reflect the
interplay between environmental and socioeconomic drivers. An approach to evaluate
comparatively the multiple relationships between ...
Marketing Channel Selection by Smallholder Farmers
This article aims at analyzing Beninese smallholder famers’ selection
of high value markets, such as export and processing-oriented
marketing channels, in the pineapple supply chain. Four main
marketing channels were ...
Agronomic survey to assess crop yield, controlling factors and management implications: a casestudy of Babati in northern Tanzania
Improved agronomic management is important to reduce yield gaps and enhance
food security in subSaharan
Africa. This study was undertaken to understand
contributing factors to observed yield gaps for maize in farmer fields ...
Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel
Drought is one of the major climatic hazards impacting on the various sectors including crop and livestock in the
West African Sahel. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, ...
Empirical evaluation of sustainability of divergent farms in the dryland farming systems of India
The present study argues that there are heterogeneous farm systems within the drylands and each farm
system is unique in terms of its livelihood asset and agricultural practice, and therefore in sustainability.
Our method ...
Strategic double cropping on Vertisols: A viable rainfed croppingoption in the Indian SAT to increase productivity and reduce risk
tOur study suggests the possibility for transformational change in the productivity and risk profile of someof India’s rainfed cropping systems. In the semi-arid regions of Southern India, farmers traditionally cropsorghum ...
Assessing genetic diversity of three Tunisian dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) sub populations using microsatellite markers
One of the main tasks of the PROCAMED project is to promote research on genetics of dromedary camel. In
this regard, and to evaluate the genetic diversity among Tunisian dromedary camel, a total of 62 blood samples
were ...