CONTEXT: India's agricultural systems are increasingly affected by climate change's adverse effects.
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Relatives, neighbors, or friends: Information exchanges among irrigators on new on-farm water management tools
CONTEXT: On-farm water application in Ethiopia, as in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is dominated by furrow irrigation, which resulted in inefficient water uses and related economic and environmental problems.
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi
Improving adaptive capacity of crop systems through minimum mechanical soil disturbance, permanent soil organic cover, and crop species diversification.
Initial impacts & resilience of China's food systems during the pandemic and the government's responses & long-term efforts to promote resilience.
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Investment in small-scale irrigation may provide a solution to address the challenge by extending crop production into the dry season.
An examination of the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture: Which have received sufficient attention and which have not?
Assessment of flood recession agriculture for food security in Northern Ghana: An optimization modelling approach
A careful selection of crop mixtures plus increasing farmers' access to improved seeds, integrating pest management and credit, and mainstreaming flood recession agriculture will improve food security in northern Ghana.
A model to examine farm household trade-offs and synergies with an application to smallholders in Vietnam
Three new modules related to budget, labor, & human nutrition for the ‘FarmDESIGN” model position the farming enterprise within the farm household.
Global and regional scale agricultural monitoring systems aim to provide up-to-date information regarding food production to different actors and decision makers in support of global and national food security.
Food and agricultural innovation pathways for prosperity
This set of papers identify strategic gaps, constraints, and opportunities in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) and links to poverty reduction.
Rainfall shocks and agricultural productivity: Implication for rural household consumption
What are the impacts of rainfall shocks on agricultural productivity and crop-specific land productivity, and negative rainfall shocks on household consumption?
Selective attention and information loss in the lab-to-farm knowledge chain: The case of Malawian agricultural extension programs
Selective attention and information loss in the lab-to-farm knowledge chain.