The adoption and diffusion of innovations are essential for both the development of
production processes and the improvement of agricultural environmental sustainability, at …

Organic agriculture is often promoted as a means to achieve sustainable agriculture and
livelihoods. Yet, the evidence is mixed on the outcomes of organic adoption. We conducted …

Good water management combined with appropriate soil management is necessary for
sustainable crop production in drylands. A pot culture experiment was conducted using sand …

Water scarcity is a world-wide problem, especially in desert ecosystems. To overcome this
shortage, saline groundwater is increasingly being used, although it has risks of increasing …

Careful soil management is important for the soil quality and productivity improvement of the
reclaimed coastal tidal flat saline land in northern Jiangsu Province, China. Farmyard …

Amidst booming scholarship on alternative food networks (AFNs) in the global North,
research on AFN in the global South remains scarce. Partly this is because explicitly …

Awareness about negative externalities generated by conventional farming is gaining
momentum with consumers around the world, opting for alternatively, namely organically …

Contrary to the expectations of promoters of organic agriculture, the adoption of the
technology by smallholder farmers in Africa has been low and slow, for reasons not well …

This paper contributes to the growing social science scholarship on organic agriculture in
the global South. A “boundary” framework is used to understand how negotiation among …

Food insecurity remains high in most of sub-Saharan African. That insecurity is made even
more acute by the increasing scarcity and degradation of natural resources. Low soil fertility …