Search Results - "Adoption"

Technical innovations for small-scale producers and households to process wet cassava peels into high quality animal feed ingredients and aflasafe™ substrate by Okike, Iheanacho, Samireddypalle, A., Kaptoge, L., Fauquet, Claude M., Atehnkeng, J., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Kulakow, Peter A., Duncan, Alan J., Alabi, Tunrayo, Blümmel, Michael

“…The research challenges remain in terms of circumventing drying technologies, creating and maintaining product quality standards, and facilitating and catalysing collective action among adopters. Nevertheless, the research carries huge potential to address feed scarcity, contribute to food security and food safety, clean up the environment, and improve the incomes and livelihoods of people currently engaged in processing cassava tuber into food – 85 per cent of them women.…”
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On-farm experimentation on conservation agriculture in maize-legume based cropping systems in Kenya: Water use efficiency and economic impacts by Micheni, Alfred N., Kanampiu, F.K., Kitonyo, O., Mburu, D.M., Mugai, E.N., Makumbi, Dan, Kassie, M.

“…We hypothesized that adopting CA system would improve system productivity and efficiency, hence resulting in higher profits. …”
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Characterization of Salmonella isolates obtained from pigs slaughtered at Wambizzi Abattoir in Kampala, Uganda by Tinega, G.M., Magiri, E., Kinyua, J., Njahira, Moses N., Erume, J., Ejobi, F., Tegule, S., Mutua, Florence K.

“…Our results offer general and rapid approaches for identifying genetic diversity of Salmonella serotypes in individual pig carcasses which can be adopted for molecular epidemiological surveys of important food contaminating bacterial pathogens.…”
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Goat production systems in Punjab, Pakistan by Muhammad, M.S., Abdullah, M., Javed, K., Khan, M.S., Jabbar, M.A.

“…Main production system adopted in the spring (58.5% and 55.4%), summer (52.9% & 51.2%), rainy (57.7% & 52.9%) and winter (60.2% & 56.3%) seasons were intensive and semi-intensive at Sites I and II, respectively. …”
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Adding value to smallholder forage-based dual-purpose cattle value chains in Nicaragua, in the context of carbon insetting. Thesis (MSc. in Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and... by Phelan, Lisette Tara

“…Drawing on examples of where the concept of carbon insetting has been adopted in coffee and cocoa value chains in Mexico and Honduras respectively, the thesis investigated the feasibility of providing a payment for ecosystem services (PES) where there was an explicit aim to generate social, economic, and environmental and productivity benefits. …”
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Poor farmers - poor yields: socio-economic, soil fertility and crop management indicators affecting climbing bean productivity in northern Rwanda by Franke, A.C., Baijukya, Frederick P., Kantengwa, S., Reckling, M., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…For the sake of targeting agricultural innovations to those households that are most likely to adopt, the Ubudehe household typology – a Rwandan government system of wealth categorisation – could be a useful and easily available tool to structure rural households within regions of Rwanda that are relatively uniform in agro-ecology.…”
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A comparison of statistical and participatory clustering of smallholder farming systems - a case study in Northern Ghana by Kuivanen, K.S., Michalscheck, Mirja, Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel, Mellon-Bedi, S., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Álvarez, S.

“…While the entire household was adopted as the unit of analysis of the statistical typology, the participatory typology provided a more nuanced differentiation by grouping individual farmers; with possibly several farmer types per household (e.g. …”
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Analysis of relationships between production of yam [Dioscorea spp.] and its determinants in Nigeria: a cointegration approach by Ojiako, I., Tarawali, G., Akwarandu, B., Okechukwu, R.U., Idowu, A.

“…A lot more other factors had contributed to past fluctuations in yam production and there was need to adopt an across-the-board approach in the development of the yams sector in Nigeria.…”
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Spatially explicit threat assessment to target food tree species in Burkina Faso by Gaisberger, H., Vinceti, B., Loo, J.

“…In order to be able to adopt adequate conservation measures a spatial assessment of their distribution and a sound analysis of the causes of and their sensitivity to threats is required. …”
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Access to forest resources: women's rights to Parkia biglobosa in three villages in Central-West Burkina Faso by Pehou, C.A.K., Djoudi, H., Vinceti, B.

“…This study focused on the analysis of the dynamics of women's access rights and control over néré in three villages in Central-West Burkina Faso, inhabited by three ethnic groups (Nouni, Mossi and Fulani) with specific and differentiated modes of access to the land. The approach adopted enabled to individually follow in the field each woman involved in the study and observe tree-specific conditions of access. …”
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The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, July - September 2016 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Find out what skills young farmers need to adopt CSA. CCAFS also organized a farmer field day in partnership with Friends of Katuk Odeyo (FOKO) and Kapsokale, two key communitybased organizations (CBOs) working at the Nyando climate-smart villages (CSVs). …”
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Digestibility of rumen undegradable protein from 40 browse species measured by mobile nylon bag and in vitro techniques by Kaitho, R.J., Umunna, N.N., Nsahlai, I.V., Tamminga, S., Bruchem, J. van

“…Values between 0·80 and 0·85 are adopted for the true digestibility of protein from temperate foods and from microbial amino acids (van Bruchem et ah, 1989). …”
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Land fragmentation, agricultural productivity and implications for agricultural investments in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) region, Tanzania by Kadigi, Reuben M.J., Japhet, J. Kashaigili, Agnes, Sirima, Felix, Kamau, Anna, Sikira, Winfred, Mbungu

“…Releasing the SAGCOT region’s potential for agricultural development will require that smallholder farmers are helped to secure adequate and suitable land for farming, raise agricultural productivity, diversify their sources of income, and adopt good production practices. This requires setting up a strong base of investor - farmer synergies for inclusive agricultural growth.…”
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Increasing cassava productivity in Nigeria: the commodity value chain development approach by Tarawali, G., Iyangbe, C., Ilona, Paul, Udensi, U.E., Asumugha, G.N.

“…Six (6) technologies or management practices were made available for transfer to farmers and investigations indicate that about 85% of farmers are adopting all the improved technologies made available for transfer to farmers except the use of fertilizers. …”
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Participatory plant breeding in rice in Eastern India by Kumar, Ravi, Singh, D.N., Prasad, S.C., Gangwar, J.S., Virk, Daljit S., Witcombe, John R.

“…The approach of using a low-cross-number, large-population breeding strategy with both consultative and collaborative participation has rapidly improved Kalinga IIl, the most widely adopted upland rice in India. Among other strategies, we have used modified-bulk population breeding lo provide heterogeneous and homozygous bulks to farmers for selection.…”
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Participatory varietal selection, food security, and varietal diversity in a high-potential production system in Nepal by Joshi, Krishna D., Witcombe, John R.

“…Farmers identified 10 of the new rice varieties as having useful traits, and seven were adopted to a significant extent within three seasons. …”
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System dynamics modeling in designing breeding schemes: The case of Menz sheep in Ethiopian highlands by Gebre, K.T., Wurzinger, Maria, Gizaw, Solomon, Haile, Aynalem, Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Getachew, T., Sölkner, Johann

“…The model is a valuable tool to design different population structures and can be easily expanded to adopt different breeding strategies. Hence, the system dynamics modeling approach is a potential tool to describe complex breeding programs.…”
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Processor linkages and farm household productivity: Evidence from dairy hubs in East Africa by Omondi, Immaculate A., Rao, E.J.O., Karimov, A.A., Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…The results provide evidence of no strong influence at farm levels that can be attributed to different forms of linkages with processor that dairy hubs adopt. Moreover, though hub sustainability is directly linked to the producer organization’s efficiency level, our results show that it does not sufficiently translate to more productive farmers. …”
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Diagnosis of management of bacterial wilt and late blight in potato in Ethiopia: A systems thinking perspective by Damtew, Elias, Tafesse, S., Lie, R., Mierlo, B. van, Lemaga, B., Sharma, K., Struik, P.C., Leeuwis, Cees

“…Appreciating such complexity, this study adopted a systems thinking perspective. It aimed to explore actors’ understanding of the complex problem situation and its implication for the management of the diseases at a collective level. …”
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Assessment of management options on striga infestation and maize grain yield in Kenya by Kanampiu, F.K., Makumbi, Dan, Mageto, E., Omanya, G., Waruingi, S., Musyoka, P., Ransom, J.

“…Farmers should be encouraged to adopt an integrated approach to control Striga spp. for better maize yields.…”
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