stoermer, manfredabdallah, ally kebbywiedenmayer, karin
We explored the outcomes and challenges encountered during a 12-year collaborative development endeavor in Tanzania, focused on enhancing the healthcare system. The Health Promotion and System Strengthening (HPSS) project, supported by the Swiss Government and implemented by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) from 2011 to 20...
The institutional theory literature focuses on the legitimization of new ventures’ innovative behaviors, while the entrepreneurial orientation literature emphasizes differentiation of the pursuit of innovation by new ventures. We apply the optimal distinctiveness perspective to examine how the institutional environment and entrepreneurial orientati...
Ouedraogo, RahimMontginoul, MarielleBarbier, Bruno
Since 2012, development actors have promoted supplemental irrigation from farm ponds to cope with rainfall variability in Burkina Faso, but few farmers have adopted the innovation. Although harvesting runoff water in ponds is an old practice in Sahelian Burkina Faso, farmers were not accustomed to irrigating crops with stored rainwater. In the cont...
The study investigated the relationship between smallholder farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics and their choice to implement formal water management systems in the context of agricultural output in Numbi, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Numbi is a farming community situated in the Mbombela Local Municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Mun...
jameson, jackmcdonnell, kevinalwarnaidu vijayarajan, vijaya bhaskarforristal, patrick d.
The adoption of innovations, such as alternative crop establishment systems, can have significant impacts on farming systems and sustainability. The recent increased adoption of non-inversion establishment systems in Ireland allowed for an evaluation of technology adoption practices and information source use and access. Of the 154 arable growers s...
Ouedraogo, RahimMontginoul, MarielleBarbier, Bruno
Since 2012, development actors have promoted supplemental irrigation from farm ponds to cope with rainfall variability in Burkina Faso, but few farmers have adopted the innovation. Although harvesting runoff water in ponds is an old practice in Sahelian Burkina Faso, farmers were not accustomed to irrigating crops with stored rainwater. In the cont...
This research addresses a knowledge gap in understanding the economic feasibility and ecological benefits of frass in circular agriculture. Its primary objective is to estimate the net change in profit that farmers can expect by adding insect frass to their array of crop and soil health promoters used in Brassica production. As such, the study cont...
Mganga, NelsonJones-Garcia, EliotMonsalue, Andrea GardeazabalKoo, Jawoo
Farm Radio International (FRI) and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Digital Innovation have col laborated on the development of an end-to-end, automatic speech recognition pipeline for the tran scription, translation, and analysis of Swahili and Luganda. This task is particularly challenging due to the number of languages used by FRI's clients and ...
