An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa

D Hounkonnou, D Kossou, TW Kuyper, C Leeuwis… - Agricultural systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Sustainable intensification of smallholder farming is a serious option for satisfying 2050
global cereal requirements and alleviating persistent poverty. That option seems far off for …

Unearthing the challenges and prospects of regional integration in Southern Africa

DN Mlambo - Journal of Public Affairs, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Regional integration is viewed as a significant initiative with regard to stimulating economic
growth amongst member states and enhancing intraregional trade, security initiatives, and …

The determinants of crop productivity and its effect on food and nutrition security in rural communities of South Africa

SI Hlatshwayo, MSC Ngidi, TO Ojo, AT Modi… - … in sustainable food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction High crop productivity has the potential to improve the food and nutrition
security status of not only smallholder farmers but also households in general. However …

Market outlet choices for African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs): a socio-economic analysis of farmers in Zambia

S Arumugam, R Govindasamy, JE Simon… - Agricultural and Food …, 2022 - Springer
Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer
groups that facilitate the commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and antibiogram profiling of Escherichia coli pathotypes isolated from the Kat River and the Fort Beaufort abstraction water

N Nontongana, T Sibanda, E Ngwenya… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Escherichia coli is a widespread bacterium encompassing a variety of strains, ranging from
highly pathogenic strains, causing worldwide outbreaks of severe diseases to avirulent, well …

The impact of irrigation on small-scale African indigenous vegetable growers' market access in peri-urban Kenya

JK Mwangi, W Crewett - Agricultural water management, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale private irrigation is widely advocated as a means of improving agricultural
incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the case of smallholder producers of African …

Institutional constraints to agriculture development in Uganda

L Bategeka, J Kiiza, I Kasirye - 2013 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Since the early 1990s, Uganda has implemented a number of reforms in the agricultural
sector. However, in the past 10 years, the performance of the sector has lagged behind other …

Challenges to polycentric governance of an international development project tackling land degradation in Swaziland

SE Orchard, LC Stringer - Ambio, 2016 - Springer
To effectively address the drivers and impacts of land degradation requires polycentric
governance systems that facilitate international development projects (IDPs). This paper …

[PDF][PDF] Cholera monitoring and response guidelines

A Okoh - Water Res. Commun, 2018 - researchgate.net
Water has been recognised as one of the critical elements for sustainable socio-economic
development and set at the core of sustainable development (Saravanan et al., 2009). It is …

Reviewing land access livelihood diversification strategies and factors influencing wellbeing of rural households in Mnquma, Eastern Cape: implications to extension …

M Christian, U Luvhengo, H Khobai… - South African Journal of …, 2020 - ajol.info
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of land access and livelihood strategies of
rural households to well-being of households' implications to extension agents in Mnquma …