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Conservation agriculture in maize-legume farming systems in Southern Africa: IPSR Innovation Profile por Thierfelder, Christian L., Nyagumbo, Isaiah

“…CA aims at rebuilding the soil, optimizing crop production inputs especially labour, and increasing profits. The social and economic benefits gained from combining production and protecting the environment under CA, including reduced input and labour costs, are greater than those from production alone. …”
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Irrigation systems management in Nepal: women’s strategies in response to migration-induced challenges por Suhardiman, Diana, Raut, Manita, Pradhan, P., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations (WUAs). …”
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From Pixels to Planting Dates: Using the AgWise Remote-sensing Framework to Automate Maize Planting-date Detection por Dastidar, Payel Ghosh, Srivastava, Amit, Leroux, Louise

“…This automation not only eliminates human labour and subjectivity, but it also allows for near-real-time insights necessary for policy planning, early warning systems, and adaptive crop management.…”
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Evaluating the willingness of Ghibe Valley (Ethiopia) residents to contribute time and money to a tsetse control programme using targets por Swallow, B.M., Mulatu, W.

“…Respondents were asked the maximum amounts of money and/or labour that they would be willing to contribute to a re-designed experiment. …”
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Ingen täckning av plansilor samt alternativa täckningsmaterial por Pettersson, Therese

“…The covering and uncovering is labour intensive and it is often difficult to get the silo properly sealed. …”
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Gendered effects of migration on social organization and smallholder production in Oubritenga Province, Burkina Faso por Langill, Jennifer Catherine, Elias, Marlène, Vinceti, Barbara, Traoré, Alain, Traoré, Daouda

“…Instead, migrating and non-migrating men maintain most influence in decision-making, and temporary migrants contribute labour to household agriculture when they return to their farms during the wet season. …”
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Cocoyam farming systems in Nigeria por Knipscheer, H.C., Wilson, J.E.

“…Cocoyam appears early in the yearly crop rotation and is often followed by cassava. Labour utilization for cocoyam is estimated to be lower than that for cassava for cultivation as well as for preparation. …”
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Conservation agriculture: A manual for farmers and extension workers in Africa por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

“…Based on the concept of integrating agricultural production practices with resource conservation measures, conservation agriculture holds great potential for Africa, where farmers are faced with low yields, poor soils, lack of capital and labour shortages. Illustrated with many line drawings, this manual draws on the skills and experience of 90 farmers, extension personnel and scientists from 16 African countries.…”
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Creation of communal grazing areas for goats in southern Mozambique: Future perspectives por Marble, Y.

“…Concerning the labour, three different management types were found: the first system was described as a maximal intervention of producers, the second as the intervention of producers and paid labour and the third one as the minimal intervention of producers. …”
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A priority sector por Gill, Sitara, Rana, Abdul Wajid

“…The agriculture sector is a major employer in the country with a bulk of 45 percent in the labour force and a source of livelihood for about 68 percent of the rural population.…”
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Understanding gender roles and practices in innovation processes por Iradukunda, F., Bullock, Renee, Rietveld, Anne M., Schagen, Boudy van

“…Single disease stem removal (SDSR) is a new labour-saving practice that has been introduced to improve BXW control. …”
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Gender, work and population in sub-Saharan Africa por Adepoju, A., Oppong, C.

“…This volume looks at various aspects of the culturally prescribed roles of women and men - that is, gender issues - in sub-Saharan Africa and their relevance to the recording of facts upon which national policies and plans promoting the welfare of labour and national economic development are supposed to be based. …”
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Integrating gender considerations in rice research for development in Africa por Agboh-Noameshie, A.R., Kabore A, Misiko, Michael T.

“…Also a clear gender division of labour exists among crops. In The Gambia, swampland farming is solely women’s duty; men cultivate cash crops and their fields are usually larger. …”
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Livestock sector in northeastern region of India: an appraisal of performance por Kumar, Anjani, Staal, Steven J., Elumalai, K., Singh, D.K.

“…Several factors identified to influence households’ decision to rear livestock include availability of labour, occupation, caste, farm-size, availability of irrigation, and access to information sources. …”
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Evaluation of artificial field infestation techniques with Striga Hermonthica for resistance screening in maize (Zea mays L.) por Ibikunle, O.A., Menkir, A., Kamara, A.Y., Ajeigbe, Hakeem A., Smith, M.A.

“…The present method of inoculation is expensive, time-consuming and labour-intensive. Two inoculation methods, covering the Striga seed with or without a layer of sand, were compared using two Striga susceptible, TZB-SR and 8338-1 and two Striga tolerantresistant genotypes, Acr.97 TZL COMP.1-W and 9022-13 STR. …”
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Feed gap assessment in Tanzania Southern Highlands through Improved Forages And Feeding Strategies Project por Paul, Birthe K., Nzolega, Beatus, Buyegi, George

“…It is constituted of empirical feed and milk measurements and labour observations, feed sub-sampling, as well as questions to the household member in charge of cattle management. (2020-02-27)…”
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Socio-economic baseline survey of selected households for Climate-Smart Dairy systems (CSD) in East Africa through improved forages and feeding strategies project por Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Kihoro, Esther, Osele, Vivien, Nzolega, Beatus, Mukiri, Jessica, Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate, Crane, Todd A.

“…IFAD CSD baseline dataset contains detailed information about household composition, production systems and activities, land and labour allocation, income from on-farm and off-farm activities, household consumption of food, and assets, land ownership and allocation of activities, with an emphasis on livestock production activities, livestock feeding strategies, selling of livestock products in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania and Rwanda. (2020-02-10)…”
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Exploring the effects of migration on smallholder farm households in Kenya and Burkina Faso por Crossland, Mary, Langill, Jennifer Catherine, Elias, Marlène, Vinceti, Barbara, Paez Valencia, Ana Maria

“…It sheds light on the context-dependent nature of migration and how different types of migration can have different effects on gendered labour relations and household capacities to invest in farming and manage the farm.…”
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Benefits of legumemaize rotations: assessing the impact of diversity on the productivity of smallholders in Western Kenya por Ojiem, J.O., Franke, A.C., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Ridder, N.A. de, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…AEZs and soil fertility gradients within these zones greatly affected crop productivity, returns to land and labour of rotations, as well as the relative performance of rotations. …”
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Piglet enterprise assessment and improvement in Cat Que Commune, Vietnam por Peters, D., Nguyen, TS, Nguyen, BM, Pham, NT

“…Disease control is as much related to management as it is to marketing strategy and labour requirements. To sell the whole lot of got yields lower profit and leads to uneven labour requirements, but it provides the opportunity for thorough cleaning of the pig pens and a break in disease; both contribute to better health condition. …”
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