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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 ...
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Crop residues (CR) have become a limited resource in mixed crop-livestock farms. As a result of the increasing demand and low availability of alternative resources, CR became an essential resource for household activities, ...
Farmers in Central Mozambique taste success using an Open Innovation Platform approach
The article reports on farmers feedback on what they have learned and changed in their production to market activities, and community cooperation, successes of IP activities, and required interventions to encourage and ...
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name
We explore the relationship between commercialisation and gender for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, using a mixed methods approach. Women saw themselves as having greater control over groundnuts than other crops, ...
Intensificação sustentável da agricultura do sector familiar na região centro de Moçambique: Os Benefícios de uma melhor integração da agricultura e pecuária
This leaflet illustrates the benefits from better integration of crops and livestock. We describe forage production and draft power animal management as two complementary technologies critical for sustainable intensification ...
Co-designing the transitions towards integrated market oriented mixed farming systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe
poverty trap. These barriers include low soil fertility, variable climates, weak knowledge support, and lack of markets. Conventional technical options are insufficient to improve smallholder livelihoods. Given the diversity ...
Implementing Innovation Platforms: a guideline for Dryland Systems Research
We believe that innovation platforms (IPs) are a powerful vehicle for implementing and coordinating systems research and for sharing lessons with the wider research for development community. The guideline aims at handy ...
Towards resilient and profitable farming systems in Central Mozambique using an open innovation platform approach
Farmers in Central Mozambique do not benefit adequately from growing markets for crops and livestock. Ecological, economic and
social barriers are intertwined: • Absence of functional markets restricting farmers from ...
Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe
In complex mixed crop-livestock systems with limited resources and biomass scarcity, crop residues play an important but increasingly contested role. This paper focuses on farming systems in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe, ...
Farmers in Central Mozambique taste success using an Open Innovation Platform approach
The success of commercialization of common bean in Dororo district has caught the attention of government officials of Mozambique and other regional organizations who are keen to spread the learnings further.