A5049753630- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
2020-2024
Women face severe gender-specific constraints and have minimal part in the farm decision-making systems sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to additional barriers adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies. paper contributes gender debate by focusing on intra-household dynamics that influence adaptive capacities small-holder farmers. Using a multi-country approach, considering Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania as case studies, an endogenous-switching poisson regression model...
African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play key role in that process. However, the adoption diffusion of technologies have been slow. Here, cross-sectional econometric analysis using primary data on farming practices cereal-legume systems Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa Tanzania is applied analyse drivers intensity innovation adoption. Socio-economic barriers reduce...
Water scarcity is a growing social, economic, and political issue, especially in Southern European countries that are becoming even more arid where different crops can be cultivated only if irrigation possible. In this context, strategies to enhance water use efficiency regarded as critical from both an economic environmental standpoint. The present work aims analyse productivity of processing tomato Apulia region Italy. Specifically, the study examines potential enhancements physical...
Abstract In developing countries, the adoption of effective climate change adaptation strategies can safeguard rural communities’ livelihoods. Using survey data collected in Guinea 2012, paper investigates factors affecting households’ to face adverse impacts. A three‐step methodology is applied: (1) assessment magnitude real climatic trends study area together with farmers’ perception change; (2) identification physical and socioeconomic variables influencing propensity; (3) analysis...
Extensive surfaces of land are currently under-utilized, marginal and/or contaminated (MUC) in many EU and neighbouring countries. In the past few years, scientific research has demonstrated that bioenergy crops can potentially render this profitable, generating income for local populations and, at same time, reaching goals new Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) without interfering with food production. The main purpose paper is to measure net economic returns by computing benefits costs low...
This article analyses the cereal-legume value chain in Malawi through a comprehensive VC Map, SWOT exercise and policy analysis. participation entails number of challenges for smallholders. Limited access to land, technology inputs, inadequate knowledge market functioning, insufficient credit extension services, combined with more general problems poor infrastructures, often prevent smallholder farmers from accessing profitable opportunities. The effectiveness national policies (e.g., public...
The livestock-dairy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Rwanda, is experiencing rapid growth due to population expansion, urbanisation, and changing food preferences. unmet local production demands are causing soil water pollution, competition for biomass, land, water, but also grassland degradation, biodiversity loss, increased GHGs emissions. Rwanda has the lowest productivity region, largely inadequate poor-quality livestock feed resources. To increase animal productivity,...
Women face severe gender-specific constraints and have minimal part in the farm decision-making systems sub-Saharan Africa. This dynamic leads to additional barriers adoption of agricultural technologies based on climate-smart approach. paper contributes gender debate by assessing evidence from Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania. A two-step methodology was applied estimate (i) influence women agriculture (CSA) intensity; (ii) socioeconomic environmental factors affecting women’s...
Climate change has severe and pervasive impacts on natural systems affects many aspects of human life. Increasing temperatures alterations in the regimes precipitations are adding pressure to global agricultural systems, which already struggling respond expanding demand for food. This directly translates into additional risks poor people living developing countries who face precarious food security conditions. Focusing case Uganda using household data from National Panel Survey merged with...