A5081112169- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Water resources management and optimization
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Cambodian History and Society
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
International Institute for Environment and Development
2020-2023
University of Greenwich
2002-2005
Meeting multiple, often competing objectives when seeking to sustainably intensify their agricultural operations is a constant challenge for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade-offs between social, economic and environmental goals at different time spatial scales need be reconciled, making best use of scarce resources. This study explored how types farm households Northwest Ghana, Eastern Burkina Faso Central Malawi make choices about resource allocation farming strategies, they...
• Outcomes of 13 participatory foresight workshops are compared. Small farms' and businesses' contribution to food security is important in three the four considered scenarios. Concerns on small farms businesses relate broader rural setting. Weak collective action will hamper adaptive capacity farms.
This paper explores how increasing agricultural productivity through intensification may influence farmland expansion decisions of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zambia. Six pairs at each site (72 total) from different wealth groups were involved serious games sessions that simulated institutional, economic, governance contexts, with players choosing their resource allocation accordingly. The approach was used to explore farmers, a ‘safe space’, whether an increase profitability...
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an expected doubling of human population and tripling food demand over the next quarter century, posing a range severe environmental, political, socio-economic challenges.In some cases, key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in direct conflict, raising difficult policy funding decisions, particularly relation to trade-offs between production, social inequality, ecosystem health.Here we use horizon-scanning approach identify 100 practical or research-focused...
This paper examines how smallholder farmers are differentially affected by agricultural expansion in their communities and landscapes. Contributing to the debate on intensification versus expansion, implications for sustainability, we employ mixed methods research with smallholders four Ghana Ethiopia explore impact of among different social groups (men, women, young, older, poor rich community members) across timescales. Surveys were conducted 200 households per livelihoods, land management...
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an expected doubling of human population and tripling food demand over the next quarter century, posing a range severe environmental, political, socio-economic challenges. In some cases, key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in direct conflict, raising difficult policy funding decisions, particularly relation to trade-offs between production, social inequality, ecosystem health. this study, we used horizon-scanning approach identify 100 practical or...
There is limited data on Sulphur (S) contents in arable soils for appropriate fertilizer recommendations Ghana. Five study areas a reconnaissance survey (RS), followed by an in-depth of two comprising farms different durations cultivation, were investigated the current total S and sulphate contents. Basic soil properties measured using standard laboratory procedures. Total determined LECO instrument dry combustion HPLC, respectively. The results showed wide variations from 31 to 603 mg kg−1...
Indigenous soil and water conservation (SWC) measures have been used by farmers.In semi-arid regions of South India for centuries.These structures often the following characteristics : They are constructed over a relatively long period time (decades/ generations), requiring little investment at any given ; they use locally available cheap material their establishment maintenance requires skills that respect property boundaries serve farmers 'multiple objectives, require minimum...