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Assessing options for crop-livestock intensification in semi-arid Southern Zimbabwe: household typologies and community visions
Presentation of Assessing options for crop-livestock intensification in semi-arid Southern Zimbabwe: household typologies and community visions
National and Regional Livestock Markets: Opportunities for Growth in SADC
The last forty years has seen a continuous rise in the demand for meat, milk, and other livestock products worldwide. Fueled by trends
such as increased urbanization, growing populations, and income growth in the urban ...
Biomass in crop-livestock systems in the context of the livestock revolution
Mixed crop-livestock systems are the dominant source of livelihood supporting more
than 80% of people living in the developing world and producing 50% of world
cereals, around 34% of the global beef production and about ...
Assessing the potential of dual-purpose maize in southern Africa: A multi-level approach
This paper explores the potential and challenges of increasing production of food and feed on existing maize fields in mixed crop-livestock systems in the semi-arid areas of southern Africa. It integrates results from ...
Integrated crop livestock systems: A key to sustainable intensification in Africa
Presentation of Integrated crop livestock systems: A key to sustainable intensification in Africa
What are innovation platforms? Innovation platforms practice brief 1
Brief 1 on What are innovation platforms?
Improving food security, nutrition and incomes: the contribution of small stock
Despite years of work, the development indicators relating to subSaharan
Africa (SSA) often disappoint. For example, the highest
incidence of undernourishment in the world occurs in SSA where one out of every three people ...
Assisting smallholder farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems to understand the potential effects of technologies and climate change through participatory modeling
Smallholder farming systems in the semiarid
areas of Zimbabwe are characterized by low production. This low production is not solely
due to lack of technologies but also due to a lack of integrating a diversity of viewpoints ...
Optimizing Livelihood and Environmental Benefits from Crop Residues in Smallholder Crop-Livestock Systems in Southern Africa
Sustainable forms of intensification are needed to address the low and stagnant production of farming systems in southern Africa. More
efficient use of croplivestock
interactions can contribute to this; in this context the ...
Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Brief on Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms