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Operationalizing the Socio-Economic Niche Concept

The large diversity of farms and farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa calls for agricultural improvement options that are adapted to the context in which smallholder farmers operate. The socio-ecological niche concept incorporates the agro-ecological, socio-cultural, economic and institutional dimensions and the multiple levels of this context in order to identify which options fit best. In […]

Source: Katrien Descheemaeker, et al.

Date: 6/16/2016

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

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Processus de la selection varietale

Date: 6/15/2016

Resource Type: Instructional material

Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

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Farmer Research Networks as a Strategy for Matching Diverse Options and Contexts in Smallholder Agriculture

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/experimental-agriculture/article/farmer-research-networks-as-a-strategy-for-matching-diverse-options-and-contexts-in-smallholder-agriculture/2AB07C19377D4C43AA41D4C90191E8E9

Date: 6/3/2016

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

Farmer research network (FRN)

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Evaluation ouverte

Date: 3/15/2016

Resource Type: Instructional material

Farmer research network (FRN)

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Waking the Sleeping Giant: Agricultural intensification, extensification or stagnation in Mali’s Guinea Savannah

The World Bank argued that West Africa’s Guinea Savannah zone forms part of “Africa’s Sleeping Giant,” where increases in agricultural production could be an engine of economic growth, through expansion of cultivated land in sparsely populated areas. The district of Bougouni, in southern Mali, falls within this zone. We used multiple data sources including a […]

Source: Mary Ollenburger et al.

Date: 11/14/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

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Unravelling the causes of variability in crop yields and treatment responses for better tailoring of options for sustainable intensification in southern Mali

Options that contribute to sustainable intensification offer an avenue to improve crop yields and farmers’ livelihoods. However, insufficient knowledge on the performance of various options in the context of smallholder farm systems impedes local adaptation and adoption. Therefore, together with farmers in southern Mali we tested a range of options for sustainable intensification including intensification […]

Source: Gatien Falconnier et al.

Date: 9/16/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

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Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways: Two decades of change in southern Mali

Institutional support for smallholders has been the motor for the expanding cotton production sector in southern Mali since the 1970s. Smallholder farms exhibit diverse resource endowments and little is known on how they benefit from and cope with changes in this institutional support. In this paper we explore farm trajectories during two decades (1994 to […]

Source: Gatien Falconnier et al.

Date: 9/15/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

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