A5050214136- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Social Capital and Networks
World Health Organization - Malawi
2018-2025
Ecological Society of America
2023
Christian Health Association of Malawi
2014
This Malawi study examines whether agroecology can be effectively used by smallholders to address food sovereignty. We build on the concept of metabolic rift, arguing that repairing this rift includes social relations. Agroecological methods important strategies, but are labour and knowledge intensive, require addressing power dynamics within beyond households in order The case included participatory dialogue, experimentation horizontal learning foster change. argue feminist concepts...
Mapping crop types and land cover in smallholder farming systems sub-Saharan Africa remains a challenge due to data costs, high cloud cover, poor temporal resolution of satellite data. With improvement technology image processing techniques, there is potential for integrating from sensors with different spectral characteristics resolutions effectively map cover. In our Malawi study area, it common that are no cloud-free images available the entire growth season. The goal this experiment...
Abstract Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, drought and flooding occurrence, rainfall variability. Given these projections, there a need identify effective strategies help rural communities adapt climatic risks. Yet, relatively little research has examined the politics social dynamics around knowledge sources of information about climate-change adaptation farming communities. This paper uses political...
The pivotal role of social capital in smallholder agriculture is widely acknowledged. growth effect manifests how networks and trust facilitate access to productive resources knowledge sharing among farmers. While sub-Saharan Africa considered a storehouse rich capital, recent literature indicates its rapid depletion due mainly the rise capitalist concomitant reorganization relations production that characterize agriculture. Agroecology an alternative approach aimed at addressing adverse...
The Group of Eight Countries (G8) launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to improve nutritional outcomes through private sector involvement in agricultural development. accession Malawi reveals assumptions behind intervention. We show that while may seem have little do with nutrition, its emergence as a frame privatization food agriculture has been decades making, is best understood an outcome project nutritionism. To highlight failings approach, we present findings from...
The role of agroecological practices in addressing food security has had limited investigation, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. Quasi-experimental methods were used to assess the reducing insecurity smallholder households Malawi. Two key – crop diversification and incorporation organic matter into soil examined. quasi-experimental study an intervention included survey data from 303 in-depth interviews with 33 households. sampled 210 participating intervention, 93 control neighboring...
Amid climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity, there is the growing need to draw synergies between micro-scale environmental processes practices, macro-level ecosystem dynamics facilitate conservation decision-making. Adopting this synergistic approach can improve crop yields profitability more sustainably, enhance livelihoods mitigate change. Using spatially explicit data generated through a public participatory geographic information system methodology (n = 37), complemented...
As the climate emergency escalates, role of forests in carbon sequestration is paramount. This paper proposes a framework that integrates local capacities, multi-source remote sensing data, and meta-learning to enhance forest assessment methodologies data-scarce regions. By integrating optical radar data alongside community inventories, we applied meta-modelling approach using stacked generalization ensemble estimate above-ground (AGC). We also conducted Kruskal–Wallis test determine...
Abstract Despite increasing land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa, investment sustainable management (SLM) remains low. Empirical evidence show that smallholder farmers tend to prioritize investing SLM practices with short-term turnover—e.g., composting and crop residue integration—in order improve soil fertility yields the neglect of like agroforestry whose benefits materialize a relatively longer period. While it is crucial for both long-term maintenance overall ecosystem health, factors...
With climate extreme events increasing in frequency and intensity Malawi, the future of local food production faces serious threats, necessitating renewed efforts to build adaptive capabilities majority poor smallholder farmers. In this context, seed security is critical improving rural livelihoods agrobiodiversity; however, knowledge its role change resilience sparse. Drawing insights from vulnerability literature, paper examines enhancing northern Malawi. Using a cross-sectional survey...
Abstract Deforestation drives climate change and reinforces food insecurity in forest‐dependent communities. What deforestation varies by location is shaped livelihood systems. But how locals perceive restoration crucial for developing policies. Evidence suggests that applying sustainable farming strategies can potentially restore forests sustain livelihoods. Applying a broad‐based conceptualization of policymaking, however, results missed opportunities addressing restoration. Here, we...