Using Sierra Leone – a post-conflict country in West Africa – as a case study, this dissertation addresses pressing issues on how to make smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, mitigate the adverse effects of ...

Nutrient depletion is a major limiting factor to agricultural sustainability in cereal dominated smallholder farming systems in Africa where over 80% of arable land is unsuitable to support primary productivity. This ...

This thesis contributes to understanding factors related to production situations in agricultural systems of the Colombian Caribbean using decision analysis. Decision analysis has numerous advantages when it is used for ......
Diese Arbeit trägt zum Verständnis von Produktionssituationen und Ertragslücken in landwirtschaftlichen Systemen der kolumbianischen Karibik unter Verwendung der Entscheidungsanalyse bei. Die Entscheidungsanalyse hat ......

The agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa at many locations is under-performing and lags behind the other continents in terms of yields as well as productivity. The recent progression in the produced quantities is mainly due ...

It is well known that uranium (U) in mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizers may accumulate in agricultural soils; yet, this U accumulation occurs at different rates, likely depending on the type of fertilizer used. To substantiate ...

Development concepts that promise growth in the economy while safeguarding the environment have progressively become significant in the recent past in the global south countries. These concepts are framed and argued to ...

3D building models are nowadays an important prerequisite for many applications such as rescue management or navigation tasks. However, most approaches for the automatic reconstruction of buildings rely on high-resolution ...

Due to a continually growing world population, the demand for food and energy increases continuously. As a central source of food, feed, and energy, crop production is therefore called upon to produce higher yields. To ...

The aggregation of spatial data is a recurring problem in geoinformation science. Aggregating data means subsuming multiple pieces of information into a less complex representation. It is pursued for various reasons, like ...

The welfare of farm animals is a topic of rising importance to consumers and livestock owners. Many procedures that are routinely performed in young livestock, for example the surgical castration of piglets, are considered ...