A5011944035- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Forest ecology and management
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Water Resources and Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- ICT in Developing Communities
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
2024
Nepal Agricultural Research Council
2024
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
2017-2023
University of Bonn
2018-2023
International Trachoma Initiative
2023
Bioversity International
2022
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
2011
University of Malawi
2011
The promotion of land, soil and water conservation measures has been a widespread development in sub-Saharan Africa bid to tackle degradation improve productivity. As result, several governments have launched various campaigns on soil, land measures. aim this study is determine some the factors that influence farmers’ awareness (knowledge) adoption practices. Data for was collected from 312 households using questionnaire survey Chinyanja Triangle Southern Africa. sites were sampled Tete...
This article is concerned with the adoption of small-scale irrigation farming as a climate-smart agriculture practice and its influence on household income in Chinyanja Triangle. Triangle region that increasingly experiencing mid-season dry spells an increase occurrence drought, which attributed largely to climate variability change. poses high agricultural production risks, aggravate poverty food insecurity. For this region, very important. Through binary logistic ordinary least squares...
Abstract Although soil degradation is a major threat to food security and carbon sequestration, our knowledge of the spatial extent problem its drivers very limited in Southern Africa. Therefore, this study aimed quantify risk structural determine variation stoichiometry nutrient limitations with land use categories (LUCs) climatic zones. Using data on clay, silt, organic (SOC), total nitrogen (N), available phosphorus (P), sulfur (S) concentrations collected from 4,468 plots 29 sites across...
This article concerns the adoption of small-scale irrigation farming as a climate-smart agriculture practice and its influence on household income in Chinyanja Triangle. Triangle is region that experiences mid-season dry spells an increase occurrences drought due to low erratic rainfall patterns which attributed largely climate variability change. poses high agricultural production risks, aggravate poverty food insecurity. For this region, very important. Through binary logistic ordinary...
Abstract This paper explores the role of women empowerment and labour on enabling farmers to cross two hurdles: adopt intensify soil fertility management (SFM), coming after six decades SFM research that disseminated several technologies. Despite assertion productivity gains cannot be realized unless drivers degradation are addressed, usage is low. We collected data from a systematically drawn random sample 238 farmers, representing 30% farming households in five villages Malawi's Rift...
Abstract Transformation of knowledge systems and fostering learning among smallholder farmers such as through participatory action research (PAR) is key to agricultural growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa. We investigate how PAR influences uptake/use integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) while accounting for gendered, bonding bridging social capital. Stratified by engagement a mother-baby resource endowments, 607 were sampled from northern Tanzania. Binary logistic multinomial logit...
Issues around bundling of climate smart agriculture (CSA) and information services (CIS) have been kept relatively distinct whereas in reality, they are more impactful when integrated. Using the case Accelerating Impacts CGIAR Climate Change Research Africa (AICCRA) Project that emphasizes as a critical component research development, six regions Ghana were purposively selected based on identified value chain crops for implementation. 120 respondents including practicing farmers advisors...
Abstract The importance of land restoration has garnered increasing attention on the global stage through large‐scale initiatives such as Bonn Challenge. However, policies and strategies are often gender‐blind designed in compliance with entrenched social hierarchies, exacerbating pre‐existing inequalities that affect initiatives. challenge developing gender‐responsive is accentuated by a persistent lack sex‐disaggregated data concerning men's women's differing perceptions experiences. This...
This study concerns the potential impact of adoption soil and water conservation technologies on household food security. Our analysis is based a sample 312 households in Chinyanja Triangle using questionnaires. We use Propensity Score Matching to estimate treatment effects adoption. Results show that has significant cereal consumption. The Average Treatment effect Treated, three matching algorithms, ranges from 222.18 320.95 kg consumed per year. results imply efforts improve these could contribute
In most developing countries, although agricultural extension and research devolved since 1980s to promote relevance, cost-effectiveness, ownership, sustainability, participatory action (PAR) have been run, albeit with limited empirical evidence on their impacts farmers livelihoods. The study use a three-stage extended regression model (ERM) estimate the effect PAR promoted agronomic practices crop produce dietary outputs considering potential endogenous engagement, omitted variable bias,...
Empirical scientific evidence indicates that there is still room for increasing food production by improving land productivity. This study aimed at identifying the key determinants govern farmers’ decisions to adopt multiple components of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) in a maize mixed cropping system Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa. Revealed preferences ISFM were collected from 320 randomly selected households and multivariate probit (MVP) model was used analyse...
Variability in woody plant species, vegetation assemblages and anthropogenic activities derails the efforts to have common approaches for estimating biomass carbon stocks Africa. In order suggest management options, it is important understand dynamics major drivers governing observed conditions. This study uses data from 29 sentinel landscapes (4640 plots) across southern We used T-Square distance method sample trees. Allometric models were estimate aboveground tree which stock (AGBCS) was...
Summary In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farmers intercrop common beans with maize but apply inorganic or organic fertilisers targeting only maize. Effects of this practice on bush bean yield have not been fully evaluated respect to input use and compatibility when intercropped An on-farm trial managed by smallholder community members was conducted assess the influence various soil fertility management options cropping systems two genotypes (SER45 SER83) in agro-ecological zones Malawi. The...
This study examined plant species diversity on marginal and degraded land earmarked for cultivation of Jatropha curcas. A rapid biodiversity assessment of was conducted using visual encounter survey patches fallow uncultivated areas within commercial subsistence agricultural landscapes. Measures richness were assessed Shannon-Wiener Index (H´) Simpson’s (D´) indices to assess the effect intensified biodiversity. Results indicate that farming significantly influenced floristic composition...
Sustainable intensification (SI) of smallholder farms is a major pathway towards attaining food security in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the rate at which farmers acquire knowledge impacts adoption and scaling newly introduced SI technologies. Understanding underlying factors that influence farmer their perceptions technologies can ensure more climate resilient agronomic innovations are adopted by farmers. During this study, knowledge, two intercropping innovations: Mbili-Mbili Doubled-up...