Wei, Xuan Zhou, Lihua Yang, Guojing Wang, Ya Chen, Yong
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Desertification has inflicted severe damage on the natural environment and social economy for decades, particularly in the arid and semi-arid regions of northern China. In Yanchi County, a series of projects were implemented to combat desertification after 2000. To assess the effects of these Desertification Control Projects from the farmers’ persp...
Marimo, Pricilla Nowakunda, K. Aryamanya, W. Azath, H. Babley, H.F. Kazigye, F. Khakasa, E. Kibooga, C. Kibura, J.K. Kindimba, G.
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Consumer acceptability tests of NARITA hybrids were conducted with a total of 572 randomly selected men and women farmers from 5 sites in different agro-ecological zones in Tanzania and Uganda (Maruku, Mitalula and Moshi in Tanzania; Kawanda and Mbarara in Uganda). Evaluations were done between July and November 2018 under the project ‘Improvement ...
Siri, Bella N. Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh Tchouamo, Isaac R.
Men and women farmer participation and choice of variety could guide breeding and drive the adoption of different haricot bean varieties. Thus, understanding how gender influences participation and choice of bean cultivation and marketing is fundamental. The study sought to analyse how socio-cultural norms determine women and men, participation and...
Rana, Jai Chand
This project has come out with an end to end solution for assessment of soil health and recommending management practices according to the soil health status. In this endeavor, DUS(Soil) a generic framework for identifying relevant soil health indicators was developed and this is a significant output of the project. It optimizes the methodology for...
Recha, Tobias Mohammed, Jemal Otieno, Gloria Atieno
Local communities currently have limited access to information and the diversity of planting materials that would allow them to diversify their production systems to cope with unpredictable weather and stabilize their livelihoods. There are currently limited and scattered mechanisms in place to share and increase the diversity of farmers’ varieties...
Mutungi, C. Muthoni, F. Bekunda, Mateete A. Gaspar, A. Kabula, E. Abass, A.
On-farm trials were conducted to investigate the effects of maize harvesting and handling practices of smallholder farmers on the quality of the produce before, and during storage in two contrasting agro-locations. Farmers harvested and prepared the crop according to local practices, and stored it in ordinary woven polypropylene bags for 30 weeks. ...
Kizito, Fred Sseguya, H. Kiao, Patrick Bekunda, Mateete A. Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
Silva, Sanjiv de Schmitter, Petra S. Thiha, Nyan Suhardiman, Diana
Lefore, Nicole Giordano, Meredith A. Ringler, Claudia Barron, Jennie
The rapid development of farmer-led irrigation is increasing agricultural productivity, incomes, employment and nutrition, but it might well not achieve its full potential. Small-scale irrigators tend to be younger, male and better-off. Women and resource-poor farmers – the majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa– are disadvantaged and often excl...
Etten, Jacob van Sousa, K. de Aguillar, A. Barrios, M. Coto, A. Dell'Acqua, M. Fadda, Carlo Gebrehawaryat, Y. Gevel, J.M.J. van de Gupta, A.
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Crop adaptation to climate change requires accelerated crop variety introduction accompanied by recommendations to help farmers match the best variety with their field contexts. Existing approaches to generate these recommendations lack scalability and predictivity in marginal production environments. We tested if crowdsourced citizen science can a...
