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Self-reported acute pesticide intoxications in Ethiopia
BMC Public Health, 2016Background. Pesticide exposure is an important public health concern in Ethiopia, but there is limited information on pesticide intoxications. Residents may have an increased risk of pesticide exposure through proximity of their homes to farms using pesticides. Also the pesticide exposure might be related to employment at these farms.DocumentHow pro-poor are land rental markets in Ethiopia?
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016Land rental markets can potentially improve the access to land for land-poor households that possess complementary resources that can enable them to utilize land efficiently.DocumentLinks between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: causal linkages and policy implications
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in such countries and at the same time threatened by social instability that further accelerate rural-urban and international migration.DocumentThe future of mechanized schemes and agricultural investment in the South Kordofan State / Nuba Mountains
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016This paper tackles the issue of the future of mechanized schemes and investment in the agricultural sector in the South Kordofan State/Nuba Mountains. The main objective of this study is to assess the viability of investment in mechanized scheme areas in South Kordofan, such as Habila, which witnessed the intervention of mechanized farming in the 1960s.DocumentAlliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) “Faith Engagement in Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015This is a desk appraisal of the Alliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) done for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) by the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).DocumentThe prospect of biogas among small-holder dairy goat farmers in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2016Biogas can be a clean cooking alternative where biomass is the dominant source of cooking energy and where feedstock for anaerobic digestion is available. By substituting woody biomass for energy, biogas may reduce local deforestation. Tanzania has more than 15.6 million goats. Dairy goats of different breeds are found in the mid-to high altitudes of the country.DocumentNorfund’s Kilombero Plantation in Tanzania: meagre results from a large investment
Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2016This report set out to analyse water use by Kilombero Plantations Limited (KPL) in Tanzania and its effect on the people dependent on local water resources.DocumentMaize productivity and input subsidies in Malawi: a state-contingent stochastic production frontier approach
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015We make cross-sectional comparisons of productivity in a risky agricultural setting. To make meaningful comparisons, we find it necessary to define a new productivity index that satisfies important axioms from index number theory (e.g., transitivity). The index can be computed without any information on output or input prices.DocumentSubsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015This study used a three-year panel dataset for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for helping smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) adapt to drought risk.