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The purpose of the study is to describe the process, findings, and lessons learned from the logo competition implemented by the project AgriSCALE to promote the replicability of this practice as a mechanism for the enhancement of project v…
This study examined the risk attitude of farmers on climatic change and how this influences the choice of climate variability adaptation strategies to mitigate the effects of climatic risks. Using 2012 and 2015 household panel data of 346 …
Depletion of marine fish stocks and need for global food security have fueled rapid growth of aquaculture systems. The sector is considered one of the fastest growing, such that in a span of 15 years from the year 2000, it had grown from 4…
This paper analyzes the multi-dimensional poverty in Malawi by using the 2019 Malawi Fifth Integrated Household Survey (IHPS) data and suggests policy implications for practical poverty reduction in Malawi. Regarding the multi-dimensional …
Conflicts over finite and shared natural resources continue to dominate headlines around the world. In particular, border regions have challenges in natural resource management. The regions include abundant natural resources, such as fores…
This was a cross-sectional study carried out between July and December 2017 in the communes of Aguegues and Zakpota in Benin and aimed at investigating the influence of activity time, socio-cultural and institutional factors on exclusive b…
Climate change has become a major concern globally, particularly to rural communities who have to find rapid coping solutions. Several vulnerability assessment approaches have been developed in the last decades. This comes along with highe…
While the impacts of climate change are felt across the globe, the African continent is most vulnerable to them despite having least contributed to greenhouse gas emissions. The Maghreb in the northwest of Africa, which consist of Algeria,…
To inclusively and sustainably reduce food contamination by mycotoxin, the potential of local clays to impound aflatoxins in contaminated maize bran was evaluated. Twenty five (25) samples of maize bran contaminated with 44.82±1.59µgkg-1 t…
This paper examined the indigenous agricultural diversification strategies and their implication on household food security in Baringo County, Kenya. Descriptive survey design was used in the study. A sample of 140 households and 12 Agricu…
Contract farming (CF) is viewed as a pro poor strategy to enhance agricultural production and overcome production and marketing constraints of smallholder producers. This is due to the benefits it offers to smallholder farmers. Despite the…
Agricultural shows are a public event conducted annually and serve the purpose, among other things, to promote agricultural knowledge, skills and attitudes to farming communities with a view to improving their farming practices. They facil…
Funding research and research facilities is a key challenge in developing countries universities. In addition to these challenges, graduates face difficulties in transiting to labor markets due to the lack of practical experience. In this …
This article gives an account of my personal experiences as a foreign student studying outside my home country in Europe. The article covers the period immediately after my arrival in Europe. I give this account because having come from a …
The decline in agriculture sector’s contribution to sub-Saharan Africa economies is attributed to risks and uncertainties that are experienced at every node of the agricultural value chain. This has attracted both government and non-govern…
Academic corruption has become widespread within the African region with different academic stakeholders getting involved in the unethical practice. The deficit in literature is establishing the most occurring of the act by lecturers in re…
Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the most consumed food ingredients globally, making it a crop with unique market opportunities in agribusiness. The objective of this review was to determine the main determinants of profit efficiency of on…
The Government of Kenya established Commodity Fund in 2006 to provide viable, inexpensive agricultural credit to coffee farmers to boost coffee productivity by facilitating the acquisition of inputs and support of overhead operations. This…
Cassava (Manihot esculenta L.) microenterprises ought to be strategic in marketing their products for relatively better marketing margins. Strategic marketing is one of the pathways that could be used in the transformation of rural smallho…
ver the years, small scale potato farm enterprises have recorded low potato productivity and profitability. This poor performance could be attributed to poor entrepreneurial culture and skills, and low entrepreneurial behaviour portrayed b…
Pumpkin is one of the many African indigenous crops grown across Africa due to its nutritional and medicinal attributes. Despite its vast nutritional and medicinal values, pumpkin remains one of the neglected and underutilized species (NUS…
Agriculture has the potential to improve dietary diversity through farm enterprise diversity if farming households consume what they produce. This paper evaluated the drivers of farm enterprise diversity among small-scale farmers in Makuen…
Smallholder farmers in Kenya are faced with low agricultural productivity and need access to timely, relevant and cost effective agricultural information through effective and efficient extension service delivery. This study determined ICT…
Mycotoxins are poisonous substances mainly produced by fungi that attack field crops and contaminate agricultural commodities during postharvest under favourable conditions. They negatively affect the agriculture sector, cause serious heal…
Mycotoxins are poisonous substances mainly produced by fungi that attack field crops and contaminate agricultural commodities during postharvest under favourable conditions. They negatively affect the agriculture sector, cause serious heal…
