Using farmers' ex ante preferences to design agri‐environmental contracts: A systematic review

C Schulze, K Zagórska, K Häfner… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial for the design of
effective agri‐environmental contracts. We present a systematic review of 127 discrete …

Perennial grain legume domestication phase I: criteria for candidate species selection

B Schlautman, S Barriball, C Ciotir, S Herron, AJ Miller - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Annual cereal and legume grain production is dependent on inorganic nitrogen (N) and
other fertilizers inputs to resupply nutrients lost as harvested grain, via soil erosion/runoff …

Smallholder farmers' preferences for sustainable intensification attributes in maize production: Evidence from Ghana

BH Kotu, O Oyinbo, I Hoeschle-Zeledon… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
While sustainable intensification has been aggressively promoted as an agricultural
development strategy among smallholder farmers since the beginning of the last decade …

[HTML][HTML] Use of integrated soil fertility management technologies in Malawi: impact of dry spells exposure

SP Katengeza, ST Holden, M Fisher - Ecological Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technologies hold potential to protect against
climate risks, reduce nutrient depletion and enhance food security. In this paper, we study …

Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi

M Matita, J Mazalale, M Quaife, D Johnston… - Food Security, 2024 - Springer
Price and affordability are important drivers of food choice, particularly for rural smallholder
farming households in Malawi, experiencing extreme poverty, food insecurity, and lack of …

Farmers' preferences for climate-smart cowpea varieties: Implications for crop breeding programmes

E Martey, PM Etwire, DS Adogoba… - Climate and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite sustained efforts to promote climate-smart technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA), adoption remains low. At the same time, the downside risks associated with climate …

Perennial staple crops: Yields, distribution, and nutrition in the global food system

M Kreitzman, E Toensmeier, KMA Chan… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Staple crops, which have large amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, and/or fats, provide the
bulk of calories in people's diets. Perennial plants, which can be productive for many years …

Quantifying loss of benefits from poor governance of climate change adaptation projects: a discrete choice experiment with farmers in Kenya

M Nthambi, N Markova-Nenova, F Wätzold - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change impacts pose a great challenge to agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa as
droughts become more frequent and more severe. A major roadblock to implementing …

Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method

R Mukerjee, NF Faye, MJ Badji, M Gomez… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Crop trait and varietal preferences are socially shaped, varying by gender, experience, and
on-farm roles. This drives preference heterogeneity, between households but also within …

Grain legumes increase yield stability in maize based crop** systems

VGP Chimonyo, SS Snapp, R Chikowo - Crop Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Functional crop diversity enhances crop productivity, stability, and food security through
efficient nutrient cycling and water utilization; however, performance is variable under …