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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Food feed crops on demonstration plots. Report on MOREP project activities and results. In Dororo IP, Manica Province and Marara IP, Tete Province Central Mozambique (2012-2015)
The report summarizes results and feed back from participatory demonstration plots. The plots were implemented with 30 farmers in Tete and Manica each. The set up of demonstrations and priority crops were selected through ...