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Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
The concern for the well-being of land is often directly related to one’s proximity to the land, be it physically, economically or culturally. Land is more precious if one’s livelihood depend on it immediately than if one ...
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 ...
Root hair length evaluated
A field trial was conducted during the dry season (May to July 2016) at Darien, Valle del Cauca-Colombia, The BASE (Bean Abiotic Stress Evaluation). The BASE trial included 80 bean genotypes: 58 belong to Mesoamerican gene ...
Farm type-specific determinants of crop productivity in Riviridzi catchment, Ntcheu Malawi
Closing the yield gap among the communities is seen as the step towards alleviating food insecurity and poverty. The casual effects of the actual yields observed in the study area shows that pooled analyses across farm ...
Orange-fleshed sweet potato an alternative for small-scale farmers trapped under Maize Poverty and climate variability
The project employs participatory approaches to draw scenarios for land use, institutional arrangements, and devising technologies for improving productivity and ecosystem health. Maize is a main staple food crop in the ...
Performance of Bush and Climbing beans under the prolonged drought in different Cropping Systems and Fertility Management Regimes in Linthipe and Kandeu, Malawi
Performance of Bush and Climbing beans under the prolonged drought in different Cropping Systems and Fertility Management Regimes in Linthipe and Kandeu, Malawi
Demand is quantified for common bean
This objective was completed ahead of schedule, but a summary is presented here. Data on production of pulses and human population suggest that per capita consumption must be declining. This raises critical questions among ...
Nomination of Cassava Variety, Poundable (TMEB693), for Registration and Release for Fresh Roots Markets in Nigeria
The variety presented here for registration and release would serve as a replacement for older poundable or ‘boil and eat’ varieties, now out of cultivation, but persistently requested for by consumers and growers. We ...
Effect of best-bet sustainable land management technologies of minimum till, agroforestry shrubs and box ridges on yield of maize (SC403) in Nsipe, Malawi
Food insecurity is a serious challenge to most of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this region, production levels of small-scale farmers, who contribute a significant proportion of the maize produced, has been far much ...
Cassava Market Update and short-term outlook
The regional cassava market has experience a rapid recovery from the low prices of 2016-17 in the last 12 months. By the second half of 2017 a supply shortage became apparent and prices rapidly increased, with starch price ...