Research
Developing countries in general and Ethiopia in particular are affected by a growing problem of food insecurity. Millions of individuals and households especially the rural poor are the main victims of the p...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:53
Published on: 11 October 2017
Review
The worlds growing population and limited land resources require high intensity of food production. Human nutrition needs both macronutrients and micronutrients. One way of providing micronutrients in staple c...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:59
Published on: 6 October 2017
Editorial
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:58
Published on: 6 October 2017
Methodology
Golden Rice is any variety of rice which makes beta-carotene, thus giving the rice a yellow (Golden) colour. It was created as an additional intervention for vitamin A deficiency. This dietary deficiency is th...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:60
Published on: 6 October 2017
Research
Farmers’ locally have acquired knowledge from generations of experience and experimentation that fit local conditions. Yet, the scientific approach less used farmers’ soil knowledge (FSK) and site-specific soi...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:57
Published on: 27 September 2017
Research
The success of crop varieties introduction is tightly linked to the uses, biophysical conditions, the cropping systems in which the crop is integrated and farmers’ and consumers’ preferences. In Benin, however...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:48
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research
Biofertilizers are now considered to be the only alternative of chemical fertilizers which apart from their soaring cost are enhancing in pollution hazards of our environment. Increasing and extending the role...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:46
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research
This paper examined the effect of Micro-Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa financial services on livelihood capital of beneficiaries in North West Province South Africa. A simple random sampli...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:45
Published on: 1 September 2017
Editorial
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:40
Published on: 1 September 2017
Research
Drought is regarded as a leading cause of food insecurity affecting about 220 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Drought early warning systems (DEWSs) have the potential to strengthen capacity of communiti...
Agriculture & Food Security 2017 6:43
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
Review
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
Research
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
Research
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
Research
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
