Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action

Research of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners shows that growing coffee and banana together is generating >50% more income for smallholder farmers and can help them cope with the effects of climate change. However, turning research into action on the grou...

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Autor principal: Ekong, J.
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66369
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description Research of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners shows that growing coffee and banana together is generating >50% more income for smallholder farmers and can help them cope with the effects of climate change. However, turning research into action on the ground requires effective dialogue and communication between researchers and policy makers. This study looks at how well informed government bodies, private sector and non-profit actors were of IITA’s research and to what extent the practice has been adopted.
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spelling CGSpace663692024-07-29T19:31:00Z Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action Ekong, J. climate change food security agriculture bananas coffee Research of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners shows that growing coffee and banana together is generating >50% more income for smallholder farmers and can help them cope with the effects of climate change. However, turning research into action on the ground requires effective dialogue and communication between researchers and policy makers. This study looks at how well informed government bodies, private sector and non-profit actors were of IITA’s research and to what extent the practice has been adopted. 2015-05-26 2015-05-26T11:27:32Z 2015-05-26T11:27:32Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66369 en Open Access application/pdf Ekong J. 2015. Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action. CCAFS Outcome Study no 2. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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food security
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Ekong, J.
Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
title Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
title_full Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
title_fullStr Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
title_full_unstemmed Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
title_short Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action
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topic climate change
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agriculture
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