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Who are those people we call farmers? Rural Kenyan aspirations and realities
Rural Kenyan households have different aspirations and income portfolio strategies, including agricultural intensification and income diversification. This article reports on a study that interviewed 624 households to ...
Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption
Despite the growing attention to technology adoption in the economics literature, knowledge gaps remain regarding why some valuable technologies are rapidly adopted, while others are not. This paper contributes to our ...
A recipe for success? Learning from the rapid adoption of improved chickpea varieties in Ethiopia
Many studies detail constraints deemed responsible for the limited adoption of new
technologies among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, here we
study the conditions that led to the remarkably fast ...
Communities of Practice - Creating and Sharing Knowledge
The Communities of Practice aim to foster relationships, develop learning situated in practice, and create and share new knowledge to restore degraded land. The goal of the project is to reduce food insecurity and improve ...
Farmer Feedback and Community of Practice Workshop Guide for Assessing the Performance of Planned Comparisons
The main objective of this farmer feedback and community of practice workshop guide is to provide community facilitators and enumerators with a check-list of questions that they can use to elicit farmers’ feedback on the ...
Spatial assessments of soil organic carbon for stakeholder decision-making – a case study from Kenya
Land degradation impacts the health and livelihoods of about 1.5 billion people worldwide. Given that the state of the environment and food security are strongly interlinked in tropical landscapes, the increasing need for ...
Application of systematic monitoring and mapping techniques: Assessing land restoration potential in semi-arid lands of Kenya
Drylands cover over 40% of the earth's surface and support over 2 billion people, globally (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). In East Africa alone, over 250 million people depend on drylands for their livelihoods (De ...
A Triple-Hurdle Model of the Impacts of Improved Chickpea Adoption on Smallholder Production and Commercialization in Ethiopia
Enhancing agricultural productivity through the adoption of proven technologies presents a
credible pathway to economic development and poverty reduction. The adoption of improved
chickpea varieties in Ethiopia has the ...
Mid-term review inception report: Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
This report is the results of the mid-term review for the EU-IFAD project "Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale" ...
Implications of variation in local perception of degradation and restoration processes for implementing land degradation neutrality
The concept of land degradation neutrality (LDN) is a new approach receiving considerable interest because of its potential to address land degradation. Implementing LDN presents a number of challenges primarily concerned ...