Sustainable agricultural development in sub‐Saharan Africa: the case for a paradigm shift in land husbandry

By John Gowing, Mirko Palmer. 2008

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. John Thompson
2. Leslie Lipper
3. D. Pannell
4. R. Llewellyn
5. Marc Corbeels
6. J. Sumberg
7. K. Mazvimavi
8. Aslihan Arslan

In Soil Science

1. Leslie Lipper
2. D. Pannell
3. J. Sumberg
4. R. Llewellyn
5. Aslihan Arslan
6. S. Asfaw
7. P. Woodhouse

Citations in the corpus

• Crop yield and weed growth under conservation agriculture in semi-arid Zimbabwe (2012, unknown): “However, smallholder rainfed crop production in semi-arid areas is characterized by low residue production levels (Gowing and Palmer, 2008), with cereal residue yields typically averaging less than 2 t ha (cid:2) 1 .”
• Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious (2013, background): “…2004; Sinha and Talati, 2007; Stoop et al., 2009; Stoop and Kassam, 2005; Stoop et al., 2002; Uphoff et al., 2008) and Conservation Agriculture (CA) (Chivenge et al., 2007; Giller et al., 2009; Govaerts et al., 2009; Gowing and Palmer, 2008; Hobbs, 2007; Hobbs et al., 2008; Kassam et al., 2009).”
• Climate Smart Agriculture? Assessing the Adaptation Implications in Zambia (2015, background): “There are a number of reasons why CA may not be suitable in particular contexts (Lal et al., 2004; Knowler and Bradshaw, 2007; Gowing and Palmer, 2008; Giller et al., 2009; McCarthy et al., 2011; Nkala et al., 2011).”
• The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers (2014, background): “Economic outcomes of CA are likely to be specific to particular people, places and situations (FAO 2001; Uri 1999; Gowing and Palmer, 2008).”
• Socioeconomic and institutional factors influencing adoption of conservation farming by vulnerable households in Zimbabwe (2009, background): “Despite this growing interest in CA, certain sources such as Gowing and Palmer (2008) argue that the technology transfer effort in SSA is still limited to on-farm demonstration trials and that farmers are not adopting CA practices.”