Excessive synthetic fertilizers elevate greenhouse gas emissions of smallholder-scale staple grain production in China
status: published
Modelling Maize Yield and Water Requirements under Different Climate Change Scenarios
African countries such as Nigeria are anticipated to be more susceptible to the impacts of climate change due to large dependence on rainfed agriculture and to several uncertainties in the responses of crop production to climate change. The impacts of climate change on crop water requirements (CWR), irrigation water requirements (IWR), yields and c...
Water productivity of potato under improved irrigation techniques in Uzbekistan [Abstract only].
Potato is a very important cash crop in Uzbekistan as the government has implemented several measures to increase its production to meet food security as well as to improve its export potential. However, irrigation water demand of potato is much higher than for other crops such as sorghum and maize, which normally consume less water and generate mo...
Kick-starting the Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan
The Union Budget 2018 announced the Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan, a scheme to replace diesel pumps and grid-connected electric tube wells for irrigation with solar irrigation pumps, including a buy-back arrangement for farmers’ surplus solar energy at a remunerative price. KUSUM can be a game changer as it can check groundwater over-...
Integrated soil, water and agronomic management effects on crop productivity and selected soil properties in Western Eth...
Land degradation is a major challenge limiting crop production in Ethiopia. Integrated soil and water conservation is widely applied as a means to reverse the trend and increase productivity. This study investigated the effects of such integrated approaches at two sites, Jeldu and Diga, in Western Ethiopia. A split plot design with physical soil an...
Do Coffee Farmers Benefit in Food Security from Participating in Coffee Cooperatives? Evidence from Southwest Ethiopia C...
Published in Food and nutrition bulletin
Most coffee in Ethiopia is produced by smallholder farmers who face a daily struggle to get sufficient income but also to feed their families. At the same time, many smallholder coffee producers are members of cooperatives. Yet, literature has paid little attention to the effect of cooperatives on combating food insecurity among cash crop producers...
Farm-level adaptation to climate change : the case of the Loam region in Belgium
Few studies have addressed the topic of farmers' adaptation to climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective, because of the difficulty in assessing their impacts. In view of the growing concern in the agricultural sector on this issue, we analyzed farm-level adaptation through amble land-use changes in the specific case of the Loam region in...
On the profitability of irrigated fodder production: comparative evidence from smallholders in Koga irrigation scheme, E...
Irrigated fodder production can be vitalised as a useful strategy to sustainably intensify subsistence livestock production owned and managed by smallholders and to diversify farm income through linkages to commercial livestock systems. However, uncertainty about the production and market environment of such a non-traditional commodity can be a maj...
Regional modelling of rainfall erosivity: Sensitivity of soil erosion to aerosol emissions
A rainfall erosivity scheme is implemented into the widely-used regional atmosphere-land model, WRF. Rainfall erosivity is parameterised from hourly precipitation and surface runoff in a high resolution (4 km) convection-permitting model. The scheme is used to examine the potential effects of changes in atmospheric aerosol concentrations on soil er...
Characterization data on crops, production systems, abiotic constraints, population and poverty for farming system regio...
This data set builds on a previous project that examined geographic targeting of agricultural research and development based on the coincidence of biophysical and socioeconomic conditions of drought prone crop production (Hyman et al., 2008). The data characterizes the farming systems of John Dixon’s global farming systems framework and map (Dixon ...
