Adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices has been widely recognized as a promising and successful alternative to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change. However, their adoption among smallholder farmers remains low in developing countries, including Ethiopia. This study examines factors that influence adoption and the level of...
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Background and aims Land abandonment and selective farming are two common management methods to restore the soil conditions of low-pollution farmland in mining areas. The soil bacterial community plays an important role in farmland soil restoration; however, few studies have compared the composition and diversity of soil bacteria between the abando...
Open Access Journal / Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) is a vital legume crop for Zambia’s urban and rural households. The crop is an important legume used as human and animal food and as a component of the agricultural production system, which improves the fertility of many depleted soils because of its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Gov...
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants are simultaneously encountered by environmental stressors, most importantly salinity stress. Salinity is the major hurdle that can negatively impact growth and crop yield. Understanding the salt stress and its associated complex trait mechanisms for enhancing salt tolerance in rice plants would ensure future food secur...
International audience
Soil is an essential natural resource, non-renewable on a human time scale, which is degraded mainly by water erosion, especially in the Mediterranean context. Erosion can cause significant soil losses at the plot and catchment level through the transfer of sediments which, in a framework of global changes (climate and land use), may severely incre...
The CocoaSoils Program is developing and disseminating Integrated Soils Fertlity Management (ISFM) recommendations to smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria to increase cocoa productivity and avoid deforestation. In the last 4 years, the program has
Tumegundua mapungufu mengi ya mavuno katika mashamba ya wakulima na tumepata uzoefu wa changamoto muhimu zinazowakabili wakulima wakati tulipokuwa tunafanya kazi katika mashamba yao, maonyesho kupitia siku ya wakulima, tathmini ya teknolojia shirikishi, ziara za kubadilishana uzoefu na pia kutumia mikutano ya kujadiliana na wakulima. Mavuno mengi y...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a primary crop for food security of millions of people worldwide. In Colombia, the Caribbean region contributes about half of the national cassava production, despite major socioeconomic constraints such as unequal land property, omnipresence of middlemen, low and unstable prices, armed conflict, climate change...
