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Lead farmers: enhancing agricultural resilience and sustainability in Eastern and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 2019)
In the following pages you will read inspiring and moving accounts by men and women farmers across eastern and southern Africa who have bravely embraced change to improve their farming methods and hence the lives and ...
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Determinants of sorghum adoption and land allocation intensity in the smallholder sector of semi-arid Zimbabwe
(Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), 2019)
Sorghum is important for sustainability of smallholder farmers' subsistence, social and economic livelihoods in semi-arid and arid environments of Southern Africa. However, production of the crop has been on the decline ...
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Scale-appropriate mechanization impacts on productivity among smallholders: evidence from rice systems in the mid-hills of Nepal
(Elsevier, 2019)
Smallholder farmers in the mid-hills of Nepal are facing an acute labor shortage due to out-migration which, in general, has affected the capacity to achieve timely crop establishment, harvest, and inter-cultural operations. ...
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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales: the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses ...
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Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional ...
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Smallholders’ coping mechanisms with wheat rust epidemics: lessons from Ethiopia
(Public Library of Science, 2019)
Crops are variously susceptible to biotic stresses–something expected to increase under climate change. In the case of staple crops, this potentially undermines household and national food security. We examine recent wheat ...
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Data driven solutions for Africa: using smart tools to combat climate change
(CIMMYT, 2019)
The need to improve peoples’ livelihoods through maize and wheat research drives CIMMYT’s work. CIMMYT researchers are pioneering the use of big data, diagnosis tools, geographic information systems, remote sensing, software, ...