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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 ...
Crop and Livestock Production for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe
Farmers in Zimbabwe face many challenges, including low soil fertility, low and erratic rainfall, and poor market access. They are therefore often poor and vulnerable to risks and shocks. With increasing human populations ...
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?
Towards resilient and profitable family farming systems in Central Mozambique
Presentation of Towards resilient and profitable family farming systems in Central Mozambique
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 ...
Sustainability transitions for smallholder farmers: How can government, research and development programs support profitable goat markets in Tete?
For Mozambique the goat sector provides huge opportunities for reducing rural poverty levels, improving food security and contributing
to the national economy. Mozambique has a huge demand for goat meat and products. Large ...
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 ...