Sustainable Water Management Practices in Agriculture: The Case of East Africa

Encyclopedia, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1), P. 7 - 7

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

This study dives into the essential issue of sustainable water management techniques in East Africa. Recognizing as a key component agricultural development, highlights importance complete approach that takes account technological, socio-economic, and environmental issues. A detailed, comprehensive review 109 scientific research articles published between 1993 2024 was conducted to acquire thorough grasp current resource in-depth investigation sought uncover major regional trends, challenges, opportunities management. Furthermore, evaluation aimed identify specific knowledge gaps impeding region’s implementation techniques. As Africa faces rising problems from climatic variability change, which have direct impact on availability output, need for policies becomes clear. The reveals significant previous research, including lack focus socio-economic consequences methods, gender dynamics, long-term assessments, indigenous integration, climate change adaptation. By highlighting these areas, emphasizes necessity future addressing developing more effective solutions

Language: Английский

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Agroecological approaches to sustainable development

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: Nov. 21, 2024

Agroecology has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for developing innovative solutions to major global concerns such food security, biodiversity loss, and climate change. The core subject of conservation emphasizes agroecology’s role in the preservation native species, pollinators, beneficial creatures through practices agroforestry, cover crops, decreased chemical inputs. Agroecological principles polyculture, crop diversity, integrated pest control help improve security by increasing stability nutrition. encourages carbon sequestration, soil health, greenhouse gas reductions, resulting climate-resilient farming systems. literature review revealed that no article thoroughly discusses all critical hitting challenges, change, single study can be addressed using agroecological principles. This attempts make connection between numerous challenges may solved techniques order facilitate sustainable growth while protecting environment. examines benefits incorporating methodologies into agriculture, with an emphasis on agroecosystem resilience, improving socioeconomic circumstances smallholder farmers, rural livelihoods, local communities, contributing change mitigation. It provides complete concepts their advantages, making it excellent guide policymakers, academics, practitioners who is working build resilient system. emerges light hope, boosting agricultural output also environment, ultimate goal achieving harmonious cohabitation mankind natural world.

Language: Английский

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Restoring degraded landscapes and sustaining livelihoods: sustainability assessment (cum-review) of integrated landscape management in sub-Saharan Africa

Frontiers in Climate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: March 21, 2024

Introduction Land degradation is a significant environmental challenge across sub-Saharan Africa. In recent decades, efforts have been undertaken, with varying successes, to rehabilitate degraded rural landscapes. However, there needs be more evidence on the outcomes regarding enhanced productivity, management, and socio-economic benefits. Methods This study uses case approach, using contrasting sites from Ethiopia Mali appraise restoration innovations implemented through various programs. Two distinct were chosen each of cases, an extensive literature search was conducted document evidence, focusing sustainability gains derived integrated landscape management (ILM). For this, sustainable intensification assessment framework (SIAF) used, encompassing five domains, namely economic, environmental, social, human condition, featuring scales plot landscape, all facilitated by simplified yet robust indicators such as yield, soil loss, net income, land access, food availability. Results highlighted higher productivity gain (35% 55%) improved benefit (>20%). The ILM in Ethiopian highlands enabled improvement wheat barley yield ( p < 0.01). Introducing new crop varieties in-situ ex-situ practices diversifying crops significantly reduced runoff loss 0.05). By increasing cultivable 44%, household income increased selling potatoes agroforestry products. Mali, 4.97t/ha 12.1t/ha. addition improvements sorghum maize (33% 63%, respectively), rehabilitating once marginal abandoned landless female-headed households work together, improving social cohesion among groups. introduction irrigation facilities widowed women increase vegetable consumption 55% their 24%. Discussion showed positive two need address challenges related absence timely data monitoring documentation successful practices. generation evidence-based use advanced geo-spatial tools Remote Sensing GPS-installed drones are recommended.

Language: Английский

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Efficiency dynamics among onion growers in Maharashtra: a comparative analysis of drip irrigation adopters and non-adopters

BMC Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(1)

Published: April 3, 2024

Abstract Background Onions are economically and nutritionally important vegetable crops. Despite advances in technology acreage, Indian onion growers face challenges realizing their full productivity potential. This study examines the technical efficiency of growers, factors influencing it, constraints faced by those adopting drip irrigation Ghod river basin western Maharashtra. A sample 480 farmers including practicing not was selected from Junnar, Shirur, Parner, Shrigonda blocks basin. The primary data collected through semi-structured interviews. Analytical tools such as Cobb-Douglas production function (represents technological relationship between multiple inputs resulting output), a single-stage stochastic frontier model, Tobit descriptive statistics were used to assess at farm level. Results According maximum likelihood estimates analysis, adopters exhibited mean 92%, while for non-adopters it 65%. It indicates that use is associated with higher efficiency. association socio-economic characters households showed education, extension contacts, social participation, information sources had positive influence on efficiency, family size negative adopters. For non-drip adopters, significant effects observed landholding, contact, source use. major system included lack knowledge about proper operating techniques systems cost maintenance. Conclusion differences two methods response increase yield greater who than do not, result large efficiencies. These inefficiencies other limitations following introduction irrigation, operations, need be addressed tailored training further interventions.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the potentials of urban crop farming and the question of environmental sustainability

City and Environment Interactions, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24, P. 100167 - 100167

Published: Aug. 29, 2024

Language: Английский

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The effect of sustainable agricultural practices on crop productivity in Ethiopia: insights from a meta-analysis

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: Jan. 29, 2025

Conventional agriculture harms the environment and threatens sustainability. To address these issues, sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) have become imperative. This study utilizes a meta-analysis approach to comprehensively assess empirical studies, investigate impact of SAPs on crop productivity, identify influencing factors, examine their temporal evolution. The findings reveal that (1) SAP adoption significantly positively influences with multiple exhibiting most substantial impact, followed by technology. Individuals who adopted achieved productivity was 980 kilograms per hectare higher than those did not. (2) Factors such as age, farm size, family livestock units, credit access, off-farm income, market distance, cooperative membership negatively affect whereas education extension services positive impact. (3) effects strengthen over time. strengthening variables time implies gradual increase in farmer awareness, access resources, SAPs, highlighting evolving role driving them. Accordingly, none past researchers identified any patterns productivity. Therefore, promoting prioritizing can offer farmers experience support, thereby enhancing Future initiatives should therefore combine interdisciplinary methods, technology, community involvement for ensuring SAP’s sustainability scalability.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the Influence Mechanism of Government Assistance on Farmers’ Planting Willingness in the Context of Extreme Weather: An Empirical Study Based on the Grain Farmers in Jiangxi Province, China

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 1351 - 1351

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

In recent years, with increasing global warming, extreme weather such as high temperatures and droughts has occurred more frequently, serious impacts on grain production farmers’ livelihoods. High drought can lead to a range of problems water shortages, increased irrigation costs, reduced land fertility, reductions in yields. Ultimately, these inhibit willingness grow threaten regional food security. The government usually takes appropriate assistance measures compensate for the loss farmers, so stimulate incentive grain. Therefore, influence mechanism context is an issue worth exploring. From perspective this paper farmers Jiangxi Province affected by 2022 research sample empirically analyzes addition, also discusses heterogeneity impact planting different agricultural income ratios literacy levels. Ordered Logistic model mediation effect were applied study. results study show that effectively incentivize grain, risk preference mediating process. stronger ratio level literacy. Finally, puts forward corresponding countermeasure suggestions based conclusions help formulate complete response policies establish effective prevention mechanism. This provides theoretical reference achieving sustainable development weather, which helps improve resilience sustainability production.

Language: Английский

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IoT-based Smart Agriculture System: Design of Farming Diary

Journal of Physics Conference Series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2949(1), P. 012060 - 012060

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Abstract Agriculture has played an important role in human society since ancient times, providing livelihoods and contributing signi(icantly to the economy of a country. Nowadays, climate change is increasingly having direct profound impact on crop productivity. These changes affect soil nutrients, pests, water levels. To mitigate these impacts increase productivity, IoT (internet things) technology been being utilized transform agricultural cultivation processes not only improve production methods, reduce costs but also ensure traceability enhance environmental sustainability. In this paper, smart farming diary designed implemented mobile web applications based technology. The system allows farmers record detailed activities, including information seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, weather, other factors affecting crops. All data collected from sensors, terminal devices for statistics, stored as logs, analyzed evaluate effectiveness system.

Language: Английский

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Feminist Agroecology: Towards Gender-Equal and Sustainable Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agricultural & Rural Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(1), P. 0001 - 0001

Published: Feb. 21, 2025

Agriculture is pivotal in the global economy but challenged by unsustainable practices that harm environment and aggravate social inequalities, particularly sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Women, making up half agricultural workforce, often do not benefit equitably from their labour due to systemic gender inequalities. Applying a Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) lens reveals unequal gendered power dynamics influence access resources, decision-making, distribution of benefits within value chains. In narrative literature review, I integrate FPE principles with agroecological approaches address gaps understanding food systems highlight positive outcomes integrating FPE, such as improved crop diversity, security, economic stability, while acknowledging challenges like entrenched norms, intersecting resistance change. explore how gender-sensitive agroecology can promote sustainable equitable examine patriarchal marginalize women agriculture, restricting resources decision-making. The analysis asserts ongoing debates around scalability implementing insights existing policy frameworks. Identified include need for more longitudinal studies on impacts FPE-informed interventions greater attention women's diverse experiences across different zones. Overall, this review contributes academic discourse discussions, seeking advance critical equality agriculture smallholder farming.

Language: Английский

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Organic and inorganic amendments improved the morpho-physiological and nutritional status of moringa (Moringa oleifera) genotypes

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 47(4)

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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