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The growing need to intensify smallholder farming systems to enhance food security for a rapidly growing population in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a major sustainability challenge. Intensification of agriculture has often resulted in degraded, highly vulnerable, exhausted and unproductive soils. Even though smallholder farming systems are heterogeneous and dynamic, conventional approaches...
Rwanda
журнальная статья
2019
Recent high-level policy papers call for scaling-up agroforestry to sustainably increase agricultural production and maintain environmental services. Evidence suggests that this will not be achieved by wide scale promotion of a few iconic agroforestry practices. Instead, three key issues need to be addressed. First, fine-scale variation in social, economic and...
журнальная статья
2014
A study was conducted to discuss the spatial distribution of root system of walnut trees and wheat in walnut & wheat intercropping system by soil coring method at Hetian, in southern Xinjiang. Above-ground biomass, land equivalent ratio and the spatial distribution of roots biological characteristics were analyzed in the different...
China
журнальная статья
2015
Agroecology increasingly has gained scientific and policy recognition as having potential to address environmental and social issues within food production, but concerns have been raised about its implications for food security and nutrition, particularly in low-income countries. This review paper examines recent evidence (1998–2019) for whether agroecological practices can improve human food...
журнальная статья
2021
Evidence from different studies has revealed a great contribution of agro-ecology in solving the world hunger sustainably. Agro-ecology addresses the problems and limitations of industrial agriculture such as inequalities, increased poverty and malnutrition rate, and environment degradation especially climate change; which are the roots causes of hunger in the world...
журнальная статья
2019
The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘’ Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’’ identified, with a high level of confidence, that agroecological principles and practices are feasible adaptation options for the future and stresses the importance of matching agroecological options to context.
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2022
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