Growing high-yielding varieties is crucial for successful crop production and maximizing farmers’ net returns. One such example is IR05N221, locally referred to as Komboka rice variety, which was released in Kenya in 2013. On the one hand, Komboka can bridge the gap in rice imports since yields of existing rice varieties do not meet the increasing ...
A rural settlement environment improvement programme is a livelihood project involving the vital interests of farmers. However, whether farmers should take the main responsibility for improving the rural settlement environment is an open issue. This study constructs an evaluation index system for farmers’ participation in rural settlement environme...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Informal groundwater markets have spontaneously developed in Pakistan due to the heterogeneity of farmers’ resource endowments, irrigation water shortages, and productivity gains of groundwater. Evidence shows that water allocation through formal or informal water markets can result in significant benefits for buyers and sellers and improve sustain...
In order to assess the advances in participatory research for root, tuber and banana crops with focus on trait preferences, we have compiled available published and grey literature about Participatory Varietal Selection up to September 2020. Methodology: In total 123 entries in the database. Studies were characterized and priority traits were extra...
Agrarian Bangladesh relies heavily on rice. Since independence, many varieties have been released and targeted to increase productivity, farmers' income, and food security. However, few gained widespread adoption. Moreover, farmers in the border regions are adopting exotic cultivars, and it's gradually spreading throughout the country. But, the rea...
This dataset is about the Northern Ghana Communities Farmer Profiles on Agronomy and Crop insurance advisories. In order to increase productivity at farmer and community levels, the Excellence in Agronomy 2030 Initiative (EiA) in partnership with WorldCover is investigating how best to characterize, boost and scale out promising agronomic options t...
Harmonizing the supply of climate information with the type of information needed by next-users is crucial for effective weather and climate services (CS). Understanding of information demand could help reshape supply side based CS that have dominated the field over the last few decades. Most CS have been developed using a ‘loading dock’ model, whe...
This study examines farmers’ perceptions, preferences and decisions regarding the use and adoption of different land management (LM) practices. using the Evaluating Land Management Options (ELMO) tool.
