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This article examines the effect of remittance income on deforestation in Nepal during 2001–2010 using satellite-based land use data and a nationwide household survey.
Mismatch between soil nutrient deficiencies and fertilizer applications: Implications for yield responses in Ethiopia
Lack of accurate information about soil nutrient deficiencies coupled with limited access to appropriate fertilizers could lead to mismatch between soil nutrient deficiencies (requirements) and fertilizer applications.
The government of Sri Lanka has implemented a myriad of fertilizer import and use options during 2015 – 2021 with the objective of making agricultural systems more financially and environmentally sustainable.
Adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices among irrigator rural farm households of Ethiopia
Using a household and plot-level survey conducted in Ethiopia, this study analyzes the difference in farmers’ adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices between their rainfed and irrigated plots.
A sub-national field assessment of land degradation was conducted in the Kongwa districts of Tanzania in December 2019. 34 sampling plots were selected using a stratified sampling method based on a land cover map.
Ethiopia has made efforts to tackle the challenges of low crop and livestock productivity and degradation of land resources through various rural development strategies.
Growth in the livestock sector is associated with heightened risk for epidemic diseases.
Soil health and grain yield impacts of climate resilient agriculture projects: Evidence from southern Malawi
Climate-resilient agriculture projects can enhance sustainable ag by improving soil health, increasing grain yields, & building ag systems' resilience to climate change & extreme weather shocks.
Mismatch between soil nutrient requirements and fertilizer applications: Implications for yield responses in Ethiopia
Lack of accurate information about soil nutrient requirements coupled with limited access to appropriate fertilizers could lead to mismatch between soil nutrient requirements and fertilizer applications.
Soil health and gender: Why and how to identify the linkages
Rethinking food system policies in terms of “eco-agro-food systems” can help to foster an integrated approach that will maintain and restore vital ecosystem services and reduce the likelihood of future shocks.
Community-level spillover effects of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV transmission in rural Ethiopia
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes.
Vegetation changes attributable to refugees in Africa coincide with agricultural deforestation
The recent adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees formally recognizes not only the importance of supporting the nearly 26 million people who have sought asylum from conflict and persecution but also of easing the pressures on receiving areas a
Impact of COVID-19 on agricultural markets: Assessing the roles of commodity characteristics, disease caseload and market reforms
This paper assesses the impact of the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown on wholesale prices and quantities traded in agricultural markets.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with increased HIV risk and other adverse health and psychosocial outcomes.
Ecosystem services are synonymous with nature’s benefit to people. Agro-food is synonymous with agri-food.
Epidemics and food systems: What gets framed, gets done
This brief article aims to interrogate some widely used concepts in framing the interactions between disease epidemics, food systems and nutrition, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 crisis.
In this paper, we study the transformation process Indian agriculture exhibited in the recent past, studying its policy implications.