CONTEXT: Improved farming practices could contribute to solving food insecurity and poverty among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, who are dominantly mixed crop-livestock farmers. Agroecological practices, which rely on the use and recycling of local …
Intercropping cereals and legumes may enhance system productivity by simultaneously producing grain for human consumption and crop residues for livestock feed. This study evaluated the effects of maize (Zea mays) intercropped with cowpea (Vigna …
Introduction - Forests support crucial ecosystem services globally, and contribute to the livelihoods of millions of people,but are threatened by agricultural expansion and intensification.Yet the relationship between forest cover and agricultural …
There is growing interest in participatory varietal selection and gender-responsive breeding in research and development initiatives. On-farm testing is increasingly used to ensure that new varieties perform within the target environments. However, …
We are facing a biodiversity crisis, which is largely driven by the way we produce food. In response, various approaches to ‘biodiversity-smart farming’ have been proposed, sparking debates, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that was largely …
Understanding the performance of new genetic technologies in farmers' realworld realities, especially those relevant to resource-poor farmers, is often overlooked but is essential to ensure equitable benefits. A new genetic technology was developed …
An innovative methodological approach combining statistical typologies and stochastic frontier analysis was applied to data collected from 1840 mixed crop-livestock farms in six districts of Zimbabwe, representative of semi-arid areas of the country. …
Background. Evidence of the effectiveness of biofortified maize with higher provitamin A (PVA) to address vitamin A deficiency in rural Africa remains scant. Objectives: This study projects the impact of adopting PVA maize for a diversity of …
Context - Increasing agricultural production shapes the flow of ecosystem services (ES), including provisioning services that support the livelihoods and nutrition of people in tropical developing countries. Although our broad understanding of the …