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Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: the case of Punjab, India
(Elsevier, 2019)
Many Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) technologies fail to achieve their full potential impact due to low levels of adoption by smallholder farmers and difficulties in scaling CSA. This paper presents how small and ...
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Soil dwelling beetle community response to tillage, fertilizer and weeding intensity in a sub-humid environment in Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2019)
Soil dwelling beetles contribute greatly to biodiversity and offer important services in agroecosystems including predation, weed herbivory and decomposition. An experiment was conducted in the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 ...
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Landscape composition overrides field level management effects on maize stemborer control in Ethiopia
(Elsevier, 2019)
Lepidopteran stemborers are a serious pest of maize in Africa. While farmers have adopted cultural control practices at the field scale, it is not clear how these practices affect stemborer infestation levels and how their ...
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Conservation agriculture enhances resistance of maize to climate stress in a Malawian medium-term trial
(Elsevier, 2019)
Smallholder farming in southern African needs climate-smart agricultural approaches to adapt to current climate stress and climate variability, and increasing risk of these under future global climate change. There are a ...
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Agro-ecological options for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith) management: providing low-cost, smallholder friendly solutions to an invasive pest
(Elsevier, 2019)
Fall armyworm (FAW), a voracious agricultural pest native to North and South America, was first detected on the African continent in 2016 and has subsequently spread throughout the continent and across Asia. It has been ...
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Social inclusion increases with time for zero-tillage wheat in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains
(Elsevier, 2019)
Sustainable intensification (SI) approaches to agricultural development are urgently needed to meet the growing demand for crop staples while protecting ecosystem services and environmental quality. However, SI initiatives ...
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Understanding clients, providers and the institutional dimensions of irrigation services in developing countries: a study of water markets in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2019)
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations that nonetheless has largely achieved staple self-sufficiency. This development has been enabled in part by the rapid proliferation of small-scale irrigation pumps ...
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Cost-effective opportunities for climate change mitigation in Indian agriculture
(Elsevier, 2019)
Long-term changes in average temperatures, precipitation, and climate variability threaten agricultural production, food security, and the livelihoods of farming communities globally. Whilst adaptation to climate change ...
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Should fertilizer recommendations be adapted to parkland agroforestry systems? Case studies from Ethiopia and Rwanda
(Springer Verlag, 2019)
Aims This study aimed to disentangle tree-crop fertilizer interactions in agroforestry systems, which has been suggested as an entry point for sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa ...