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Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) in Northern Ghana: Impacts on Welfare, Environmental Reliance, and Agricultural Land Expansion
(2018-10-22)
Sustainable agriculture has become an important issue in the development-policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as a major avenue to simultaneously raise smallholder agricultural productivity and enhance climate change ...
Towards a more efficient and sustainable fertilization through recycling phosphorus as struvite
(2018-11-08)
Food and water security are dependent on the sustainable use of phosphorus (P). However, there is no single solution for achieving a phosphorus-secure future. P recovered and recycled from current waste streams (like manure) ...
Performance assessment of a bamboo-drip irrigation system: a contribution to water productivity improvement West Africa
(2018-11-28)
Despite its high efficiency and productivity potential in regions subject to scarce water supply, conventional drip irrigation is still expensive and therefore only being adopted slowly in West Africa where 80% of vegetable ...
Identification and characterisation of Heterodera schachtii susceptibility genes AtPANB1 and HIPP27 in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2018-11-08)
Sedentary plant-parasitic cyst nematodes are obligate biotrophs that infect the roots of their host plant. Their parasitism is based on modification of infected root cells to form a hypermetabolic syncytium from which the ...
Long-term effects of childhood work on human capital formation, migration decisions, and earnings in rural Ethiopia
(2018-10-16)
In Ethiopia, a quarter of children are child laborers, of which one in every three works full-time. Currently, more children than ever before also combine schooling with work. In addition, although net primary school ...
The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and Its Role as a Development Actor: Cases from Southwestern Ethiopia
(2018-08-15)
Smallholder agriculture forms the backbone of the Ethiopian economy, supporting the majority of the country's population. Since the late 1960s, the state has been actively pursuing agricultural extension as a key means of ......
Kleinbäuerliche Landwirtschaft beschäftigt als Grundlage der äthiopischen Wirtschaft die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung des Landes. Seit den 1960er Jahren baut der äthiopische Staat die landwirtschaftliche Beratung als Mittel ......
Kleinbäuerliche Landwirtschaft beschäftigt als Grundlage der äthiopischen Wirtschaft die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung des Landes. Seit den 1960er Jahren baut der äthiopische Staat die landwirtschaftliche Beratung als Mittel ......
Farm-level impacts of policy instruments targeting plant protection products
(2018-09-25)
Plant protection is necessary to achieve high yields with high quality. The application of pesticides, however, leads to negative external effects to the environment. Society calls for stricter agri-environmental instruments ...
Genome-wide-association studies (GWAS) on the interaction between the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii and Arabidopsis thaliana
(2018-10-12)
Plant-parasitic cyst nematodes are obligate sedentary parasites that infect the roots of a wide range of host plants. In research, the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii infecting Arabidopsis thaliana is often used ...
Investment and land-use decision under consideration of uncertainty
(2018-09-17)
Investment and land use decisions pre-determine the distribution of other farm resources and thus constitute core farm activities. Investments at the farm level often include sunk costs, risks, returns-to-scale, investment ...
Host acceptability, suitability, interaction and establishment of two introduced Liriomyza leafminer endoparasitoids: Halticoptera arduine (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) and Chrysocharis flacilla (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in Kenya
(2018-08-28)
Liriomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae) leafminers are pests of economic importance to the production of horticultural crops in East Africa. In the scope of a classical biological control program in East Africa, two parasitoids ......