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Understanding diversity of smallholder farm households is of critical importance for the success of development interventions. Farming households often will devise livelihood strategies that provide the best g...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:37
Published on: 15 August 2017
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A significant gap exists between advances in technologies in agriculture and what Ghanaian farmers practice on their farms. This paper examines rice farmers’ information seeking behaviour and the determinants ...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:38
Published on: 1 August 2017
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In Ethiopia, food insecurity remains a major public health challenge. Agroecosystem has a potential to determine food insecurity. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the spatial pattern of household food ...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:36
Published on: 11 July 2017
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The roles and responsibilities of men and women in east African smallholder pig-raising households and the entitlements each can claim from pig-enterprise income are unknown. The article is a qualitative gende...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:18
Published on: 21 June 2017
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Environmental heterogeneity, emerging pathogens and limited access to financial and agricultural inputs prevent farmers from producing consistent crop yields in many developing countries. Yield instability im...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:42
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Cocoyam is an important food security crop in Ghana because it stores better than all other root and tuber crops. Despite its socio-economic relevance, production has declined persistently since the last decad...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:44
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Potato is considered as staple food in Hill regions of Nepal. It is considered as a major crop (in cropping pattern) of the majority of the households in Bobang and Tara VDC of Baglung district. The potato pr...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:47
Published on: 13 June 2017
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The most limiting factors for sustainable maize production in smallholder farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa, especially the savanna agro-ecological zone, are erratic rainfall pattern and low soil fertility.
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:17
Published on: 10 June 2017
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Food availability, access, and utilization are the three pillars of food security and need to be aligned in order to support a healthy population. United States (US) fisheries policy plays an important role i...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:16
Published on: 1 June 2017
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Mango is an important tree fruit in Sierra Leone since it participates to food and nutritional security mainly in rural areas. However, the economic potential of this tree fruit is still untapped to a large ex...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:14
Published on: 21 May 2017
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Maize is the second most important staple crop in terms of area and production in Nepal. The production and yield of maize are low in Nepal as compared to other similar agro-climatic regions. Seed is considere...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:41
Published on: 15 May 2017
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Here, we review the impacts of recent natural disasters in developing countries on rural agriculture and livelihoods with the objective of understanding gaps and providing recommendations. Lessons from these d...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:39
Published on: 10 May 2017
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Up to now, efforts to help local communities out of the food-insecurity trap were guided by researcher (or other actors)-led decisions on technologies to be implemented by the communities. This approach has p...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:13
Published on: 10 May 2017
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Arid and semi-arid areas of West Africa are highly subject to climate change effects. This is combined to other drivers such as population growth and livestock number increase. To cope with such changing envir...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:15
Published on: 1 May 2017
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Inconsistency in climate regimes of rainfall and temperature is a source of biotic and abiotic stresses in agricultural systems worldwide. Several studies from Bangladesh report that this variability is a caus...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:10
Published on: 21 April 2017
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The rapid growth of mobile phones in Ghana has opened up the possibility of delivering timely and useful weather and market information to farmers at costs lower than traditional agricultural extension service...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:8
Published on: 10 April 2017
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Food security has been observed to be severe in northern Ghana than any other area of the country. Though this has been acknowledged, few attempts have been made to curb the situation. One of such intervention...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:35
Published on: 5 April 2017
Review
Existing scholarly works have paid little or no attention to the problems small-scale fisheries encounter within the context of food and nutritional security. Therefore, this work has examined the problem. Sma...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:34
Published on: 5 April 2017
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In Connecticut, the subsistence harvest of coastal and marine resources, with the explicit goal of consuming what is collected or caught, is counted and regulated as recreational fishing. Little information ex...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:12
Published on: 1 April 2017
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Fisheries have played a significant role in the economic development of Newfoundland and Labrador and continue to contribute to coastal livelihoods and local food security. However, the access to and availabil...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:33
Published on: 30 March 2017
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In southern Africa, conservation agriculture (CA) has received a lot of research and promotional support from various organizations in the past decades. Conservation agriculture is largely promoted as one of t...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:32
Published on: 23 March 2017
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Potato plays a great role for the achievement of food security program due to its plasticity to environmental conditions and yielding capacity. However, its productivity is far less than other countries due to...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:31
Published on: 23 March 2017
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Low productivity of cereals, the staple food, in Sahelian zone of Cinzana in Mali is caused by a range of factors including but not limited to inherent low soil fertility, and insufficient and inadequate distr...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:11
Published on: 21 March 2017
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Maize is the most important cereal and most widely cultivated staple that plays a key role in the food security of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although some countries have achieved significant gains in maize pro...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:30
Published on: 17 March 2017
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Understanding factors influencing the expression of a trait is key in designing a breeding program. Genotype by environment interaction has great influence on most quantitative traits. Promiscuous nodulation i...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:29
Published on: 17 March 2017
