Closing the cassava yield gap: An analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa

By A. Fermont, P. V. Asten, P. Tittonell, M. V. Wijk, K. Giller. 2009

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. K. Cassman
2. M. Muyanga
3. Martin K. van Ittersum
4. T. Jayne
5. P. Tittonell
6. Z. Tadele
7. B. Vanlauwe
8. P. Grassini

In Plant Science

1. Z. Tadele
2. P. Tittonell
3. P. Grassini
4. K. Cassman
5. Fusuo Zhang
6. Martin K. van Ittersum
7. Julian Ramirez-Villegas
8. A. Jarvis

Citations in the corpus

• An evaluation of cassava, sweet potato and field corn as potential carbohydrate sources for bioethanol production in Alabama and Maryland (2009, background): “[9] Fermont AM, van Asten PJA, Tittonell P, van Wijk MT, Giller KE.”
• Factors Affecting Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Summer Maize on Smallholder Farms in the North China Plain (2018, methodology): “This approach to quantify the yield gap has been successfully used for cereals and cash crops [29,35,38].”
• Increased productivity through integrated soil fertility management in cassava–legume intercropping systems in the highlands of Sud-Kivu, DR Congo (2011, result): “Fermont et al. (2009) found higher value-to-cost”
• Sustainable intensification and the African smallholder farmer (2014, background): “2 t ha , 59% of which was attributed to fertilizers, 28% to genetic differences and 12% to planting method [19].”
• Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation? (2012, background): “Breeding for cold tolerance in cassava is reported as being a major challenge (El-Sharkawy 2004; Fermont et al. 2009).”
• Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review (2013, methodology): “If crop production resources (including soil properties) and input levels have also been recorded, methods such as the boundary line approach or frontier analysis can be used to identify the highest yields for a given level of resource availability (Tittonell et al., 2008a; Fermont et al., 2009; Gra”
• Conservation agriculture in African mixed crop-livestock systems: Expanding the niche (2014, methodology): “K ( y S ( c b a a 2 i v c ary line models as described by Fermont et al. (2009), using N fertilization and P fertilization as independent variables.”
• Effects of rising rural population density on smallholder agriculture in Kenya (2014, result): “The increases in land intensification appear to be occurring in forms that are favorable to sustainable intensification – e.g. increased use of cash inputs and shifts to higher valued crops – as well as forms of intensification that are not sustainable, including more continuous cultivation and reducti”
• Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification (2017, methodology): “6 t ha−1 using improved management, cultivars, and fertilizer [100].”