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David Mfitumukiza, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Ellen J. Kayendeke and Vincent B. Muwanika
Climate change impacts threaten sustainable development efforts. The magnitude of the impacts, however, varies with the socio-ecological characteristics of locations. This is the reason there is consensus on the necessity for climate change adaptive capa...
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Mohamed Allam, Emanuele Radicetti, Mortadha Ben Hassine, Aftab Jamal, Zainul Abideen and Roberto Mancinelli
Farming practices such as cover cropping, crop rotation systems, and soil tillage practices, along with climate conditions and soil type play important roles in determining final crop production. Numerous empirical studies have documented the heterogeneo...
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Ranjit Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar, BS Yashavanth, Nakeertha Venu, PC Meena, A Dhandapani and Alok Kumar
The ?Green Revolution? (GR) technology-induced agricultural intensification has transformed India from food scarcity to a food surplus country. However, this has also resulted into several adverse repercussions. Increased application of chemical fertiliz...
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Daniela De Benedetto, Francesco Montemurro and Mariangela Diacono
The aim of this study was to determine the impact of agro-ecological practices on soil losses, by assessing experimental field topography changes and cauliflower crop yield after an artificial extreme rainfall event. Data were collected in an innovative ...
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Michael Baidu, Leonard K. Amekudzi, Jeffery N. A. Aryee and Thompson Annor
Rainfall variability has strong impact on food security, livelihood and socio-economic activities as farming in West Africa is mainly rain-fed. The annual, seasonal and decadal rainfall variability over Ghana has been studied and their periodicities anal...
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Dolores Agúndez Leal,Soumana Douma,javier Madrigal,Almudena Gómez-Ramos,Barbara Vicenti,Ricardo Alía,Ali Mahamane
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Aim of study: Indigenous woody species play an important role as a complement on the diet of rural populations in Niger, especially in periods of food scarcity. However, these species are nowadays overexploited and management programmes are necessary to ...
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D Ratnasekera,KMASK Rupasingha
Weedy rice (Oryza sativa L. f. spontanea), seeds remain a longer period in soils at different depths enriching soil seed bank and that contribute to the success of weedy rice as a ?weed.? Hence basic information on the level of longevity, dormancy and ge...
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Clinton L. Beckford
Grown in Jamaica since the days of slavery, food yams are major staples in local diets and a significant non-traditional export crop. The cultivation system used today is the same as 300 years ago, with alleged unsustainable practices. A new cultivation ...
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