Seeds for livelihood: Crop biodiversity and food production in Ethiopia

By Salvatore Di Falco, Mintewab Bezabih, Mahmud Yesuf. 2010

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Fisher
2. Mare Sarr
3. Mintewab Bezabih
4. D. Feliciano

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Fisher
2. Mare Sarr
3. Mintewab Bezabih
4. Edward B. Barbier
5. A. Angelsen
6. C. Shackleton

In Soil Science

1. M. Fisher
2. G. Shively
3. Mare Sarr
4. Mintewab Bezabih
5. Edward B. Barbier
6. A. Angelsen
7. D. Feliciano
8. C. Shackleton

Citations in the corpus

• Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi (2012, background): “…can help smallholders to manage price and production risk (Baumgärtner & Quaas, 2008; Di Falco & Chavas, 2009), and in moisture-stressed, ecologically-fragile agricultural systems, crop diversification also can be a viable strategy to increase farm-level productivity (Di Falco et al., 2010).”
• To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia (2017, unknown): “This insight relies on a host of evidence that the ability of smallholder farmers to adopt new agricultural technologies, such as on-farm diversity, is related to farm size (Chamberlain, 2008; Di Falco, Bezabhi, & Yesuf, 2010; Jayne, Mather, & Mgheyi, 2010).”
• Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for labor (2013, unknown): “…including N fixation and C sequestration; breaking the life cycle of pests; improving weed suppression; and smoothing out the impacts of price fluctuations (Altieri, 1999; Di Falco et al., 2010; Jhamtani, 2011; Liebman and Dyck, 1993; Snapp et al., 2010; Tilman et al., 2002; Woodfine, 2009).”
• Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia (2012, background): “Recent studies have also found that the effect of diversity on productivity depends on rainfall so that agrobiodiversity has a larger impact at lower precipitation levels (di Falco and Chavas 2008; di Falco et al. 2010).”