Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
The humid highlands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are characterized by high population densities and require intensification. The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA) has set up a research for development platform in various mandate areas in DR Congo, Burun...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07662-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Theme 1 – System characterization
- Bridging the soil map of Rwanda with the ‘farmer’s mental soil map’ for an effective Integrated and Participatory Watershed Management research model
- Intensification of crop–livestock farming systems in East Africa: A comparison of selected sites in the highlands of Ethiopia and Kenya
- Rapid assessment of potato productivity in Kigezi and Elgon Highlands in Uganda
- Farmers’ knowledge and perception of climbing beans-based cropping systems in Rwanda
- Securing crop phosphorus availability in the humid tropics: Alternative sources and improved management options - A review
- Theme 2 – System components
- A decade of agricultural research in Rwanda: Achievements and the way forward
- Do commercial biological and chemical products increase crop yields and economic returns under smallholder farmer conditions?
- Enhanced utilization of biotechnology research and development innovations in eastern and central Africa for agro-ecological intensification
- Investing in Land and Water Management Practices in the Ethiopian Highlands: Short- or Long-Term Benefits?
- Yield responses of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) varieties to phosphorus fertilizer application across a soil fertility gradient in western Kenyan highlands
- Innovations to overcome staking challenges to climbing beans production by smallholders in Rwanda
- Crop–livestock interaction for improved productivity: Effect of selected varieties of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) on grain and straw parameters
- From standards to practices: The intensive and improved rice (SRI and SRA) systems in the Madagascar Highlands
- Identification of elite, high yielding and stable maize cultivars for Rwandan mid-altitude environments
- Determination of appropriate rate and mode of lime application on acid soils of western Kenya: targeting small scale farmers
- Assessment of fertilizer efficiency in Walungu weathered soil on maize yield
- Improvement of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) production with fertilizer and organic inputs in Rwanda
- Evaluation of sweetpotato varieties for the potential of dual-purpose in different agroecological zones of Kenya
- Theme 3 – Drivers and determinants for adoption
- Livelihoods heterogeneity and water management in Malawi: policy implications for irrigation development
- Access to subsidized certified improved rice seed and poverty reduction: evidence from rice farming households in Nigeria
- Factors influencing the adoption of improved rice varieties in Rwanda: An application of the Conditional Logit Model (CLM)
- Assessing the influence of farmers’ field schools and market links on investments in soil fertility management under potato production in Uganda
- Bean utilization and commercialization in Great Lakes region of Central Africa: The case of smallholder farmers in Burundi
- Enhancing farmers’ access to quality planting materials through community-based seed and seedling systems: Experiences from the Western Highlands of Cameroon
- Returns to production of common bean, soybean, and groundnut in Rwanda
- Theme 4- Knowledge-intensive approaches
- Beyond the pilot sites: Can knowledge-intensive technologies diffuse spontaneously?
- Agricultural innovations that increase productivity and generates incomes: Lessons on identification and testing processes in Rwandan agricultural Innovation Platforms
- ISFM adaptation trials: farmer-to farmer facilitation, farmer-led data collection, technology learning and uptake.