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Replication Data for: What are the links between tree-based farming and dietary quality for rural households? A review of emerging evidence in low- and middle-income countries' (systematic literature review)
No full textThe data is derived from 36 publications selected based on an included list of certain criteria corresponding to the research aims. The studies explore linkages between tree-based farming systems and dietary quality outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
Replication data for: Fruit trees on farms and their contribution to family: a case study from Busia County, Western Kenya
No full textWhat was known: No detailed data existed on fruit tree diversity on farms in Western Kenya and on how the farmers families uses the fruits they harvest.
What is new : There is a high diversity of fruit trees on farms, which produce some mature fruits year-round, but during the hunger gap, more fruit can be available if farmers further diversify their systems. Fruit consumption among small children and adults needs to be increased.
Target Audience: Scientists, extension officers, nutrition and health workers, NGOs, governmental institution
Replication data for: The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi
No full textAnalyses of intra-household decision-making in Sulawesi are linked to gender issues shown to affect involvement in landscape management. These include agriculture, food, money, life chances, and attitudes toward domestic violence. The picture portrayed is encouraging, showing the social sophistication of a group often marginalized: This group shows considerable female involvement in decision-making and strongly democratic elements. We identify three issues that need greater attention—for equitable landscape management to result: women’s spheres of decision-making must be ascertained and taken into account, men’s involvement in care needs to expand, and women’s agency requires enhancement and external support
Replication Data for: Deconstructing satoyama – The socio-ecological landscape in Japan
No full textSatoyama is a traditional rural landscape in Japan, where secondary forests often play an essential role and traditional ecological knowledge has been important in sustaining this human–natural system. However, the definitions of satoyama are multiple and its typical forms have changed over time. This paper reviews the satoyama concept, with special reference to its evolving environmental and social significance, and its implications for sustainability of human–natural systems. The satoyama concept is characterized by multi-functionality, in which social and economic dimensions rather than ecological dimensions, dominate. Considering that the usage and management priorities of satoyama have been shaped by the evolving needs of the times, the contemporary needs of society should be accounted for in their continued management. Today satoyama have the potential to supply important ecosystem services, including the preservation of important cultural heritage, biodiversity conservation, and education. However, recognition and parameterization of potential trade-offs between these services is necessary and will require diverse site-specific strategies for sustaining satoyamas that foster new relevance, economic options and innovative management. As a socio-ecological construct, the quality and maintenance of satoyama systems will depend on the existence of adequate ecological knowledge to support the management decisions fitted to respond to current social needs. For many satoyama systems, such knowledge is inadequate. Ultimately, there is hope that the satoyama concept can be replicated elsewhere, so that land management can be tailored to the needs and capacities of the ecosystems and the communities that depend on them
Acacia senegal collection and growth parameters at Linguere and Goudiry districts, Senegal. May 2017
No full textGrowth parameter
Ag Biodiversity Market Survey Study
No full textAgo-Biodiversity Market Survey Study in Uganda and Ethiopi
Fruit collection and growth parameter of Adansonia digitata at Mangochi District, Malawi, 2016.
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Replication data for: Photosynthesis and biomass production by millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and taro (Colocasia esculenta) grown under baobab (Adansonia digitata) and néré (Parkia biglobosa) in an agroforestry parkland system of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
No full textPhotosynthesis and biomass production by millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and taro (Colocasia esculenta) grown under baobab (Adansonia digitata) and néré (Parkia biglobosa) was studied at Nobéré (Burkina Faso) with the aim of optimising parkland systems productivity. Millet yielded the highest biomass under Baobab and the lowest biomass was recorded in the zone close to the tree trunk of néré. In contrast, the biomass of taro was higher in heavy shaded zones under néré and the zone close to baobab's trunk. The two crops showed an increasing trend of photosynthesis rate (PN) from tree trunk to the open area. However, the increase in the PN of taro from tree trunk to the open field was lower compared to that of millet. By increasing its leaf area index (LAI) under shade, taro displayed higher biomass production under tree compared to the open area while an opposite trend was observed in millet. The high millet biomass production under baobab could be explained by light availability and the reduction of temperature under shade compared to the open field. The adaptation of taro to shade by increasing its LAI and thus avoiding drastic reduction in PN under shade resulted in better biomass production under heavy shade. Therefore, it was concluded that by replacing m
illet with taro under dense tree crowns the productivity of agroforestry parkland systems could be increased
Land Health: Land health surveillance system in support of Malawi food security project
No full textThe World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) with funding from the Irish Aid Malawi, has been implementing a four-year nation-wide programme known as the Agroforestry Food Security Programme (AFSP) in 11 districts and eight Agricultural Development Divisions (ADDs): Shire Valley, Blantyre, Machinga, Lilongwe, Salima, Kasungu, Mzuzu, and Karonga ADDs since its inception in January 2007. The AFSP has six specific objectives as follows: Target, prioritize, adapt and demonstrate fertilizer, fodder, fruit and fuel-wood trees portfolio options in eleven selected districts with suitable biophysical, geographical and social niches for agroforestry interventions, including vulnerable sub-populations (HIV/AIDS afflicted, food insecure, poor, women); Engage partners in developing and applying strategies for sustainable supply and delivery systems of quality tree germplasm to meet massive demand by smallholder farmers; Engage, mobilize and sensitize policy makers to formulate appropriate policy mechanisms and instruments for mainstreaming agroforestry and catalyzing its adoption at the district and national levels; Improve strategies for accessing functional and equitable input markets and market support systems for agroforestry products that increase prices paid to farmers for their outputs and reduce costs incurred by farmers for needed inputs; Strengthen and mobilize the capacity of national and local institutions and development agencies in sc
aling up agro-forestry and develop strategies for institutionalizing agroforestry research for development in Malawi; Mainstream agro-forestry into national development plans and community based land-use and management practices
Forces of competition: smallholding teak producers in Indonesia
No full textSmallholders managing their own teak plantations typically lack established marketing strategies and are unaware of the underlying competition. They also have limited experience in using research methods to observe the competitiveness and attractiveness of smallholders teak in the market. To investigate the lesser-explored smallholders teak market and identify opportunities to develop marketing strategies, we applied PorterÂs Five Forces Model, which focuses on the five forces that shape business competition. The study showed that smallholding teak producers compete with a well established, state-owned forest enterprise. Meanwhile, access to markets, market knowledge, financial resources, and tree production and management, all of which bore on product quality, were identified as barriers to entry by smallholders into the teak market. With bargaining power at the supply level, farmers must deal with the overwhelming profit-eroding power of buyers, the intermediaries. Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) and acacia (Acacia auriculiformis) may well be suitable high-quality substitutes for teak, but sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria), which is a fast-growing, high-yielding tree that reaches harvest size in only eight years, may also suffice. Improving market information for smallholders, simplifying timber trade regulations to minimize transaction costs, and developing links between teak producers and teak industries are among the recommendations to initiate effective marketing strategies for smallholders growing teak