Climate-smart agriculture on small-scale farms: A systematic literature review

T Mizik - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Overpopulation and climate change are among the greatest challenges the world faces.
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) provides an adequate answer by aiming for higher …

The impact of crop diversification on the economic efficiency of small farms in Poland

A Kurdyś-Kujawska, A Strzelecka, D Zawadzka - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Crop diversification finds an important place in the strategy of dealing with risk and
uncertainty related to climate change. It helps to increase the resilience of farmers …

Technical efficiency and technological gaps of rice production in Anambra State, Nigeria

CA Obianefo, JN Ng'ombe, A Mzyece, B Masasi… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
The traditional approach to modeling productive efficiency assumes that technology is
constant across the sample. However, farms in different regions may face different …

Food poverty, vulnerability, and food consumption inequality among smallholder households in Ghana: a gender-based perspective

KN Addai, JN Ng'ombe, O Temoso - Social Indicators Research, 2022 - Springer
We examined gender-based household welfare differences in Ghana among smallholder
households. We measured disparities in welfare outcomes (food poverty, vulnerability, and …

Impact of improved rice varieties on household food security in Northern Ghana: A doubly robust analysis

W Lu, KN Addai, JN Ng'ombe - Journal of International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study determines the impact of the adoption of improved rice varieties on household
food security using farm‐level data from 900 households in Northern Ghana. We employed …

Application of viscose-based porous carbon fibers in food processing—Malathion and chlorpyrifos removal

T Tasić, V Milanković, K Batalović, S Breitenbach… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
The increasing usage of pesticides to boost food production inevitably leads to their
presence in food samples, requiring the development of efficient methods for their removal …

Why is firewood use so persistent? The role of income uncertainty

F Chen, M Filipski, Y Luo, H Qiu - Energy for Sustainable Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite significant public efforts towards energy transition, rural households in the
developing world often continue to burn traditional biomass as an energy source, sometimes …

Climate-smart agriculture technologies and determinants of farmers' adoption decisions in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia

T Sisay, K Tesfaye, M Ketema, N Dechassa, M Getnet - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agriculture is a sector that is very vulnerable to the effects of climate change while
contributing to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the atmosphere …

Agrobiodiversity and smallholder resilience: A scoping review

F Bravo-Peña, L Yoder - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Agrobiodiversity is often touted as a crucial adaptation strategy to mitigate risks linked to
climate change by increasing the response capability of a system to external shocks and …

Preserving local biodiversity through crop diversification

E Strobl - American journal of agricultural economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using the case study of birds and food crops, we investigate whether diversifying crop
production can enhance preservation of local biodiversity. To this end we combine annual …