Innovative Farmers, Non-adapting Institutions: A Case Study of the Organization of Agroforestry Research in MalawiAgroforestryLocal knowledgeInstitutional cultureInnovationWorld Agroforestry CentreFarmer experimentation with technologies, diverting from the official recommendations, highlights a common theme in the ...
in Malawi has a significantly lower carbon intensity tea of 1.51 kg CO2e/kg of tea vs. the industry average of 6.46. To improve it even further, it has been actively growing, supporting and promoting its smallholder supply base to its supply chain partners. For good r...
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The results of these studies vary across settings: while in Kenya a safe place to keep money was enough to substantially increase savings, in Malawi, Uganda and Chile the safe savings intervention only had limited effects on a subsample of experimental subjects. Although our intervention does not...
Sustainably feeding the world’s growing population is a challenge1,2,3, and closing yield gaps (that is, differences between farmers’ yields and what are attainable for a given region)4,5,6 is a vital strategy to address this challenge3,4,7. The magnitude of yield gaps is particularly ...
To this end, governments around the world have introduced a series of cultivated land protection policies, such as the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, which encourages farmers to change their agricultural production methods through numerous financial subsidies, thus fostering the sustainable ...
Each measure is based on a proven trial in a smallholder farming environment. For example, one measure related to animal production practices focuses on improving livestock breeding systems for increased productivity and reduced GHG emissions. The approach was used in Malawi and Uganda for a community...
Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture: a farm-level typology with empirical evidence from southern Malawi World Dev., 126 (2020), Article 104692, 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104692 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Arunrat et al., 2017 N. Arunrat, C. Wang, N. Pumi...
However, CSBs have limited potential to enter the formal seed market as the free flow rule does not apply to branded seeds. DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE 565 India is among the foremost countries in the world in terms of farmers' rights legislation with its Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers...
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