KENYA: MAIZE FARMING PERSISTS, DESPITE HARMFUL DEREGULATIONStephanie Nieuwoudt
Maize farmingGIS and land suitability analysisclimate change adaptationAnalytical Hierarchy ProcessKenyaMany developing nations are faced with severe food insecurity partly because of their overdependence on rainfed agriculture. In Kenya, climate system variations that impact staple food crops like maize ...
Population pressures and the need to optimize the use of limited available land has led to increasing cropping affluence levels within the maize agro-ecologies in Kenya, and a shift from large to smallholder intensification and multiple cropping patterns. Using a geographic information system, this st...
. However, research on Indigenous knowledge about maize in Nigeria adopting a gender lens and/or focusing on farmers’ conservation or selection of varieties is scant. What is highlighted instead are specific farming practices such as weed and pest control, soil management, planting techniques, ferti...
Kenya Varietal turnover Food security Agro-dealers Seed systems 1. Introduction Since the Green Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, the development and delivery of new hybrids and improved varieties have been a central element in government and donor strategies to support increased smallholder ...
the estimated maize yield losses due to MLN were 23–100% in affected counties of Kenya (De Groote et al.2016; Batchelor et al.2020). Maize rough dwarf disease (MRDD) (Fig.1l) poses a grave threat to maize production worldwide (Dovas et al.2004; Achon et al.2015). MRDD is ...
EFFECTS OF P-FORTIFIED COMPOST MANURE ON P-UPTAKE AND MAIZE YIELD IN SMALLHOLDER MIXED FARMING SYSTEM OF WESTERN KENYA 来自 ccrp.org 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者:MA Okumu,SM Mwonga,IM Tabu,J Ojiem,J Lauren 摘要: Maize is one of the major food crops in Kenya. Crop yield realized by ...
Legumes such as groundnut, soybean, and cowpea also form an important part of the farming system. Legumes are usually grown solely in rotation with cereals but in some cases, they are intercropped with cereals. The degree of commercialization is low, and farmers depend mainly on their own ...
E. et al. Nonlinear response of nitric oxide fluxes to fertilizer inputs and the impacts of agricultural intensification on tropospheric ozone pollution in Kenya. Glob. Chang. Biol. 23, 3193–3204 (2017). Google Scholar IPCC 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse ...
(2020). Soon, researchers started using these models to examine the determinants of technology adoption. For example, the probit model was used to predict varietal diffusion in maize in Kenya as early as 1975 (Gerhart1975). This practice still dominates empirical adoption studies in agriculture. ...