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Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:21
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Combining soil fertilization, cropping systems and improved varieties to minimize climate risks on farming productivity in northern region of Burkina Faso
In search of options to cope with climate change and variability, a trial combining fertilization and improved varieties of millet and cowpea (intercropped or as sole crop) was conducted on three sites (Lemnog...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:20 -
Agrobiodiversity conservation enhances food security in subsistence-based farming systems of Eastern Kenya
Globally, there is great concern about expanding agricultural activities due to their impact in the conservation of agrobiodiversity. African continent is known for its richness in biodiversity. In Kenya, ther...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:19 -
Role of inland fishery and aquaculture for food and nutrition security in Nepal
Fish as a food is generally acceptable to all regardless of region, religion, race, gender and age across Nepal. The aquaculture and open-water capture fishery contributes about 2 % of agricultural gross domes...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:18 -
First record of tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Tanzania
Pest invasion has been a disruptive phenomenon in nature, the consequence being ecological and economical negative effect in natural ecosystem of the area. In agriculture, introduced insect pest has a devastat...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:17 -
Urban harvests: food security and local fish and shellfish in Southcentral Alaska
Alaska is known for its many fisheries, which support an extensive global marketplace, a thriving tourism industry, and also contribute much to diets of many Alaskans. Yet, some research has suggested that Al...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:16 -
Farmer knowledge identifies a competitive bean ideotype for maize–bean intercrop systems in Rwanda
Plant genotypes are rarely developed for mixed cropping systems despite the potential of these systems to provide multiple ecosystem services. One of the most ubiquitously grown mixed cropping systems is a com...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:15 -
“I eat two meals per day” impact of climate variability on eating habits among households in Rufiji district, Tanzania: a qualitative study
Improved understanding of the influence of climate variability on eating habits is required to manage health outcomes that could be produced. Agriculture production is the main source of income to people in Ru...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:14 -
Building local institutional capacity to implement agricultural carbon projects: participatory action research with Vi Agroforestry in Kenya and ECOTRUST in Uganda
Smallholders have begun to take advantage of a growing pool of investment in climate change mitigation. Meanwhile, early movers in this area are working to develop innovative models that will allow projects to...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:13 -
Spatio-temporal analysis of the impact of climate, cropping intensity and means of irrigation: an assessment on rice yield determinants in Bangladesh
Rice (Oryza sativa) is the most important staple food for almost half of the global population. Improvement of rice yield is of global concern and is influenced by a wide variety of regional factors including cli...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:12 -
How is household food insecurity and maternal nutritional status associated in a resource-poor setting in Ghana?
Population-based studies show household food insecurity is associated with increased body mass index (BMI) and an increased risk of overweight in adult women in developed countries. However, there is insuffici...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:11 -
Potential of Kersting’s groundnut [Macrotyloma geocarpum (Harms) Maréchal & Baudet] and prospects for its promotion
Kersting’s groundnut is a tropical crop, highly nutritious, adapted to drought-prone areas. The crop is neglected both by researchers and by policy makers. This paper aimed at providing relevant information on...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:10 -
A review on the legislative aspect of artificial fruit ripening
Fruit ripening is a natural process in which a fruit goes through various physical and chemical changes and gradually becomes sweet, colored, soft, and palatable. Fruit ripening process can also be stimulated ...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:8 -
Genetic variability in storage root bulking of cassava genotypes under irrigation and no irrigation
Early bulking in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a very important trait in semi-arid ecologies of the tropics. Farmers tend to select early-maturing cassava varieties to escape terminal drought and destruct...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:9 -
Identification of discrepancies in grain quality and grain protein composition through avenin proteins of oat after an effort to increase protein content
Oat prolamin (avenin) is a family of proteins that contain several polymorphic components. The high interspecific variability of avenin among cultivars, electrophoretic patterns have been used for grain protei...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:7 -
Economics of beekeeping as pollination management practices adopted by farmers in Chitwan district of Nepal
When the natural pollinator’s declines, beekeeping can contribute to the pollination services, assuring crop yields, and can also be used to strengthen the livelihoods through commercialization to increase eco...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:6 -
Shallow wells, the untapped resource with a potential to improve agriculture and food security in southern Mali
Excessive rainwater during the rainy season and lack of water in the dry season have been challenging the agricultural productivity and food security for rural communities in southern Mali. Various soil and wa...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:5 -
Food coping strategies in northern Ghana. A socio-spatial analysis along the urban–rural continuum
Food insecurity is a worrying challenge worldwide, with sub-Sahara Africa most affected. Literature reveals that in developing countries, food insecurity is a largely ‘‘managed process’’, meaning people are ac...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:4 -
Adoption of improved citrus orchard management practices: a micro study from Drujegang growers, Dagana, Bhutan
Citrus ranks top among the agricultural export commodities of Bhutan both in terms of volume and value. However, citrus cultivation practices still remain traditional with very low yield and inferior fruit qua...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:3 -
The effect of weakened resilience on food insecurity in protracted crisis: the case of South Sudan
This study aims to determine predictors of food insecurity in a typical setting where resilience of population is weakened as a result of protracted crises. South Sudan is used as a case study. The rationale o...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:2 -
Access to livelihood capitals and propensity for entrepreneurship amongst rice farmers in Ghana
This paper examines rice farmers’ access to livelihood capitals (natural, financial, physical, social and human) and the relationship and propensity for entrepreneurship capacities amongst rice farmers in the ...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2016 5:1 -
Postharvest practices and farmers’ perception of cocoa bean quality in Cameroon
After the closure of Cameroon’s National Produce Marketing Board in 1990, rigorous measures no longer existed to control production of quality cocoa. This study assesses farmers’ knowledge of postharvest pract...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:28 -
Synergies at the interface of farmer–scientist partnerships: agricultural innovation through participatory research and plant breeding in Honduras
The article describes the institutionalization of farmer participatory research and plant breeding that has occurred in Honduras over the past 22 years and demonstrates how this approach can offer a positive r...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:27 -
Rural women’s farmers access to productive resources: the moderating effect of culture among Nupe and Yoruba in Nigeria
This paper analyzes ownership and control of productive resources by gender as determined by culture. This is premised on the fact that past researchers have isolated gender and productive resources on one han...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:26 -
Edible insects contributing to food security?
Because of growing demand for meat and declining availability of agricultural land, there is an urgent need to find alternative protein sources. Edible insects can be produced with less environmental impact th...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:20 -
Plant breeding for organic agriculture: something new?
The role of both organic (OF) and conventional (CF) farming remains open to debate particularly when related to food security and climate change. Targeting plant breeding for OF can contribute to reduce its yi...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:25 -
Sowing seeds of empowerment: effect of women’s home garden training in Bangladesh
There is a lack of scientific evidence that home gardens contribute to women empowerment, which eventually leads to greater gender equality, although it is generally assumed that they do. Using data from poor ...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:24 -
Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa
What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural options and management strategies are likely to benefit femal...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:23 -
The worldwide status of phasmids (Insecta: Phasmida) as pests of agriculture and forestry, with a generalised theory of phasmid outbreaks
Stick insects have been reported as significant phytophagous pests of agricultural and timber crops since the 1880s in North America, China, Australia and Pacific Islands. Much of the early literature comes fr...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:22 -
Soil fertility status and wheat nutrient content in Vertisol cropping systems of central highlands of Ethiopia
Land degradation reduces agricultural productivity and poses a serious threat on food security status of households. In Ethiopia, farmers have been using only urea and di-ammonium phosphate for more than 15 ye...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:19 -
Animal agriculture and the importance of agnostic governance of biotechnology
Human population growth and rising income levels in developing countries are increasing demand for animal protein. One of the key enablers of the associated increase in global animal protein production has bee...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:21 -
Use of NeemPro®, a neem product to control maize weevil Sitophilus zeamais (Motsch.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on three maize varieties in Cameroon
Sitophilus zeamais is a key pest of stored maize causing serious economic damage. The predominant control of this pest is the use of synthetic residual pest...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:18 -
Farmer participation in selection within segregating populations of cowpea in Volta Region, Ghana
Participatory plant breeding leads to early adoption of a newly released variety as farmers would be aware of whatever advantage it might have over prior existing ones as early as possible. Cowpea farmers arou...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:17 -
The interplay between household food security and wellbeing among small-scale farmers in the context of rapid agrarian change in India
Small-scale agriculture, government entitlements, and livelihood opportunities offered by rapid economic growth shape the food security and wellbeing of people in rural India. This paper analyses this ongoing ...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:16 -
Effect of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) grain conditions on occurrence of mycotoxin-producing fungi
Sorghum is a staple cereal crop that is well adapted to arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). It has a potential of assuring food security and livelihoods in the ASALs. The objective of this study was to determine...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:15 -
Distribution of indigenous strains of atoxigenic and toxigenic Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus in maize and peanuts agro-ecological zones of Kenya
Grains of important food and export crops in Africa are susceptible to contamination by toxin-producing moulds. Aflatoxins are mycotoxins associated with liver damage and cancer in humans and animals. These to...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:14 -
Indentifying farmers’ preferences and constraints to maize production in two agro-ecological zones in Burkina Faso
The low adoption of technologies, developed by research institutions, by farmers substantiates the need for client orientation in research and development. Hence, to bridge the gap between breeders and farmers...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:13 -
Drivers of rice production: evidence from five Sub-Saharan African countries
In spite of considerable rice production gains over the past 50 years, Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming increasingly dependent on rice imports as demand is outpacing domestic supply. The serious economic and soc...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:12 -
Food in a future of 10 billion
Over the past two centuries, the human population has grown sevenfold and the experts anticipate the addition of 2–3 billion more during the twenty-first century. In the present overview, I take a historical g...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:11 -
Crop water productivity and economic evaluation of drip-irrigated soybeans (Glyxine max L. Merr.)
Effective management of water under irrigated agriculture is crucial to ensure food security. One crop that has high irrigation economic potential at local and international scales is soybean. This article pre...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:10 -
Breeding for wheat quality to assure food security of a staple crop: the case study of Tajikistan
This study evaluated options and obstacles to strengthening food security through breeding a staple crop in a developing country, using the case of quality of bread wheat in Tajikistan as an example.
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:9 -
Grain yield variation and association of major traits in brown-seeded genotypes of tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.)Trotter]
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major cereal crop of Ethiopia where it is annually cultivated on more than three million hectares of land by over six million small-scale farmers. It is broadly grouped...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:7 -
Effects of climate variability on maize yield in the arid and semi arid lands of lower eastern Kenya
Climate is a key input of rain-fed agriculture. Climate variability and change has been the most important determinant of crop yields in Kenya and other parts of the world. However, there has been not much res...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:8 -
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: new term or new concept?
Within the post-2015 agenda discussions of the United Nations, sustainable development goals (SDGs) are being drafted. In this context, nutrition-sensitive agriculture has been introduced. Nutrition-sensitive ...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:6 -
Farmers’ rice knowledge and adoption of new cultivars in the Tillabéry region of western Niger
Tillabéry is the main rice growing region of Niger, and it includes both irrigated and lowland rice. Rice production has stagnated due to several factors this research investigated through farmers’ eyes.
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:5 -
Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organisations
This paper asks: What have been the impacts of farmer- or community-led (informal) processes of research and development in agriculture and natural resource management in terms of food security, ecological sus...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:4 -
Genetically modified crops: the truth unveiled
What has long been suspected is true: genetically modified (GM) crops do have real benefits for the environment and for the economic well-being of farmers. A meta-analysis of peer-reviewed journal articles and...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:3 -
Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua
Productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the world’s rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to increasing agricultural productivity, equity, and foo...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:2 -
Begomovirus disease complex: emerging threat to vegetable production systems of West and Central Africa
Vegetables play a major role in the livelihoods of the rural poor in Africa. Among major constraints to vegetable production worldwide are diseases caused by a group of viruses belonging to the genus Begomovirus,...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2015 4:1 -
Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture
As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security syne...
Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2014 3:19
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