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The role of responsive heterogeneity in sub-Saharan smallholder farming sustainability: socio-economic and biophysical determinants of mineral and organic fertilizers used in South Western Burkina Faso
Sustainable soil nutrient management (SNM) is important for improving soil resources and food security in sub-Saharan African countries. Inherent livelihood diversity may lead to differences in household behavior in the ...
CRP-DS ESA Flagship 2014 Performance Monitoring Report
East and Southern Africa Flagship 2014 Performance Monitoring Report, 30 January 2015
Report on the Workshop for Consolidating Curriculum of the New Master-level Subject Titled “Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems Toward Sustainability”
This report recaps and overviews the result of the participatory consolidation of the Curriculum of the New Master-level Subject Titled “Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems ...
Farm level production efficiencies and their drivers in cereal-based heterogeneous smallholder systems in western Burkina Faso
The present study analysed farm level crop production efficiency for cereal-oriented agricultural livelihood system (ALS) types in the Satiri sub-district, western Burkina Faso. The typological results of a previous study ...
Multi-agent system for integrating ecological processes at multiple scales with human decision-making: Solutions and lessons learned from a modelling framework applied in different landscape ecosystems
Modelling socio-ecological systems, in which social and ecological systems interact each other and co-evolve, are useful for supporting decisions in managing landscape ecosystems. Inter-linking socially interactive ...
Farm soil nutrient flows and balances in cereal-based heterogeneous smallholder systems in western Burkina Faso
The present study analysed farm soil nutrient flows and partial balances for cereal-oriented agricultural livelihood system (ALS) types in the Satiri sub-district, western Burkina Faso. The results showed that main inflows ...
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability of Agricultural Livelihood Systems: Stakeholders' Perspectives - The 2nd Workshop.
The workshop was initiated in the frame of the Project GLDC-FP3: Integrated Farm-Household Management under the Activity 3.3.6: Criteria & Indicators of ALS Sustainability. This is the second workshop, as a follow-up of ...
Agent-based model for assessing ex-ante impacts of farm management innovations on performance of GL/DC-based smallholder systems - Design framework and theoretical parameterization
Viable management and policy options for sustaining smallholder farming systems in grain legume and dry cereal production regions need special attention. Although a great deal of knowledge on ways to efficiently agronomic ...
Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems Toward Sustainability – A Report on Curriculum Development for a Master-Level Subject
Agricultural systems and rural livelihoods continuously evolve as a result of interactions between the local farming systems and global, regional and national driving forces. Agricultural technologies and agricultural, ...
Trends of degradation and improvement in biomass productivity in target countries of CGIAR Initiative in Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems – An Interim Report
Trends of degradation and improvement in biomass productivity in the target countries of MFS Initiative using Trends.Earth tool. The calculation of the trends using global time-series of NDVI (MODIS) over the 2000-2015 ...