Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture (eBook, ePUB)

An integrated systems research approach
Redaktion: Oborn, Ingrid; Atta-Krah, Kwesi; Brooijmans, Willemien; Thomas, Richard; Phillips, Michael; Vanlauwe, Bernard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is moved from farming systems to livelihoods systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317212003
• Artikelnr.: 47903774

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Öborn is Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia at ICRAF, The World Agroforestry Centre, Bogor, Indonesia, and Professor of Agricultural Cropping Systems at the Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. Bernard Vanlauwe is R4D Director for the Central Africa hub and the Natural Resource Management Research Area of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya. Michael Phillips is Director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Program at WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia. Richard Thomas is Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Drylands Systems at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan. Willemien Brooijmans is a rural development sociologist and a consultant at Humidtropics, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria. Kwesi Atta-Krah is Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Integrated Systems Research for sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture Ingrid ¿born
Bernard Vanlauwe
Kwesi Atta-Krah
Richard Thomas
Michael Phillips and Marc Schut Part 1: Conceptual Underpinnings of Systems Research 2. Systems Research for Agricultural Development: Past
Present and Future David Norman and Kwesi Atta-Krah 3. Systems Science at the Scale of Impact: Reconciling Bottom up Participation with the Production of Widely Applicable Research Outputs Fergus L. Sinclair 4. Understanding African Farming Systems as a Basis for Sustainable Intensification Dennis Garrity
John Dixon and Jean-Marc Boffa 5. Does Sustainable Intensification Offer a Pathway to Improved Food Security for Aquatic Agricultural System-dependent Communities? Simon Attwood
Sarah Park
Jacqueline Loos
Michael Phillips
David Mills and Cynthia McDougall 6. What Works Where for Which Farm Household: Rapid Approaches to Food Availability Analysis Randall S. Ritzema
Romain Frelat
James Hammond and Mark T. van Wijk 7. Approaches to Operationalizing Integrated Systems Research Hervé D. Bisseleua and Ann Degrande 8. Systems Thinking: Towards Transformation in Praxis and Situations Bernard Hubert and Ray Ison 9. Foresight for Institutional Innovation and Change in Agricultural Systems: Three Examples Marie de Lattre-Gasquet
Bernard Hubert and Joost Vervoort 10. Exploring Futures of Aquatic Agricultural Food Systems in Southern Africa: From Drivers to Future-smart Research and Policy Options Ranjitha Puskur
Sarah Park
Robin Bourgeois
Emma Hollows
Sharon Suri and Michael Phillips Part 2: Sustainable Intensification in Practice 11. System Productivity and Natural Resource Integrity in Smallholder Farming: Friends or Foes? Bernard Vanlauwe
Edmundo Barrios
Tim Robinson
Piet Van Asten
Shamie Zingore and Bruno Gérard 12. Using Local Knowledge to Understand Challenges and Opportunities for Enhancing Agricultural Productivity in Western Kenya Mary Mutemi
Maureen Njenga
Genevieve Lamond
Anne Kuria
Ingrid Öborn
Jonathan Muriuki and Fergus L. Sinclair 13. Exploring Options for Sustainable Intensification through Legume Integration in Different Farm Types in Eastern Zambia Carl Timler
Mirja Michalscheck
Stéphanie Alvarez
Katrien Descheemaeker and Jeroen C.J. Groot 14. Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture in Northwest Vietnam: Exploring the Potential of Integrating Vegetables To Thi Thu Ha
Pepijn Schreinemachers
Fenton Beed
Jaw-Fen Wang
Nguyen Thi Tan Loc
Le Thi Thuy
Dang Thi Van
Ramasamy Srinivasan
Peter Hanson and Victor Afari-Sefa 15. Improved Grain Legumes for Smallholder Maize-based Systems in Western Kenya Paul L. Woomer
Bonface Omondi
Celister Kaleha and Moses Chamwada Part 3: Integrating Nutrition
Gender and Equity in Research for Improved Livelihoods 16. Balancing Agrifood Systems for Optimal Global Nutrition Transition Linley Chiwona-Karltun
Leif Hambraeus and Friederike Bellin-Sesay 17. Nutrition-sensitive Landscapes: Approach and Methods to Assess Food Availability and Diversification of Diets Gina Kennedy
Jessica Raneri
Celine Termote
Verena Nowak
Roseline Remans
Jeroen C.J. Groot and Shakuntala H. Thilsted 18. Integrated Systems Research in Nutrition-sensitive Landscapes: A Theoretical Methodological Framework Jeroen C.J. Groot
Gina Kennedy
Roseline Remans
Natalia Estrada-Carmona
Jessica Raneri
Fabrice DeClerck
Stéphanie Alvarez
Nester Mashingaidze
Carl Timler
Minke Stadler
Trinidad del Rio Mena
Lummina Horlings
Inge Brouwer
Steven M. Cole and Katrien Descheemaeker 19. Gender and Systems Research: Leveraging Change Cynthia McDougall 20. Gender Norms and Agricultural Innovation: Insights from Uganda Anne Rietveld 21. Gender Transformative Approaches in Agricultural Innovation: The Case of the Papa Andina Initiative in Peru Silvia Sarapura Escobar
Helen Hambly Odame and Amare Tegbaru Part 4: Systems and Institutional Innovation 22. What Kinds of 'Systems' are we Dealing With? Implications for Systems Research and Scaling Cees Leeuwis and Seerp Wigboldus 23. How can External Interventions Build on Local Innovations? Lessons from an Assessment of Innovation Experiences in African Smallholder Agriculture Bernard Triomphe
Anne Floquet
Brigid Letty
Geoffrey Kamau
Conny Almekinders and Ann Waters-Bayer 24. Constraints and Opportunities in Using Multi-stakeholder Processes to Implement Integrated Agricultural Systems Research: the Humidtropics Case Lisa Hiwasaki
Latifou Idrissou
Chris Okafor and Rein van der Hoek 25. Learning System for Agricultural Research for Development (LESARD): Documenting
Reporting
and Analysis of Performance Factors in Multi-stakeholder Processes Murat Sartas
Marc Schut and Cees Leeuwis