Intensive agricultural practices increase crop yields but worsen the carbon footprint, which contributes to global warming. The adoption of climate-smart a
MalawiBinding resource constraints in many low- and middle-income countries aggravate food insecurity risk in the face of climate change. To help mitigate such risk and increase food security, international development agencies have invested billions of dollars in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) ...
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Household-level agricultural practices and investme... N. McCarthy,L Lipper,G Branca 被引量: 117发表: 2011年 Climate Change and Agricultural Policy Processes in Malawi This paper explores climate change 鈥 agriculture debates in Malawi in view of the increasing interest and funding pledges for ...
Farmers should further be encouraged to participate in social groups for easy access to extension information on climate smart agriculture.International journal of green computingOlga MapanjeUniversity of Zimbabwe ZimbabweMoses M. N. ChiteteUniversity of Livingstonia MalawiWisdom MgomezuluLilongwe ...
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Similar benefits are observed in drylands, as demonstrated by an agroforestry project in Malawi (2009–2014), which enhanced yields, agricultural income, and food security (development), while reducing deforestation and avoiding agricultural encroachment (mitigation) (Amadu et al. 2020). In these ...
Trade-offs, synergies and acceptability of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana Climate smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted by governments and international development institutions as an intervention to address climate change an... P Antwi-Agyei,J Atta-Aidoo...
changeandland degradationfor sustainable food and nutrition security and the country's economic growth. In this context, climate-sensitive agricultural practices are one viable approach. More specifically, we consider climate-smartagroforestryusingmacadamia nuts, one of Malawi's potentially important crops....
This way of categorisation has recently been used to categorise CSA practices in Malawi (Amadu et al., 2020). This has led to a categorisation based on three types of indispensable resources: 1) unskilled labour, 2) skilled labour, and 3) finance. 3.5. Principal component analysis To reduce...