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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Earthscan Food and Agriculture |
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Earthscan food and agriculture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Integrated systems research for sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture; Part I Conceptual underpinnings of systems research; 2 Systems research for agricultural development: Past, present and future; 3 Systems science at the scale of impact: Reconciling bottom up participation with the production of widely applicable research outputs |
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4 Understanding African farming systems as a basis for sustainable intensification5 Does sustainable intensification offer a pathway to improved food security for aquatic agricultural system-dependent communities?; 6 What works where for which farm household? Rapid approaches to food availability analysis; 7 Approaches to operationalizing integrated systems research; 8 Systems thinking: Towards transformation in praxis and situations; 9 Foresight for institutional innovation and change in agricultural systems: Three examples |
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10 Exploring futures of aquatic agricultural systems in Southern Africa: From drivers to future-smart research and policy optionsPart II Sustainable intensification in practice; 11 System productivity and natural resource integrity in smallholder farming: Friends or foes?; 12 Using local knowledge to understand challenges and opportunities for enhancing agricultural productivity in Western Kenya; 13 Exploring options for sustainable intensification through legume integration in different farm types in Eastern Zambia |
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14 Sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture in Northwest Vietnam: Exploring the potential of integrating vegetables15 Improved grain legumes for smallholder maize-based systems in Western Kenya; Part III Integrating nutrition, gender and equity in research for improved livelihoods; 16 Balancing agri-food systems for optimal global nutrition transition; 17 Nutrition-sensitive landscapes: Approach and methods to assess food availability and diversification of diets; 18 Integrated systems research in nutrition-sensitive landscapes: A theoretical methodological framework |
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19 Gender and systems research: Leveraging change20 Gender norms and agricultural innovation: Insights from Uganda; 21 Gender transformative approaches in agricultural innovation: The case of the Papa Andina Initiative in Peru; Part IV Systems and institutional innovation; 22 What kinds of 'systems' are we dealing with? Implications for systems research and scaling; 23 How can external interventions build on local innovations? Lessons from an assessment of innovation experiences in African smallholder agriculture |
| Summary |
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is moved from farming systems to livelihoods systems and institutional innovation. Much of the work represents outputs of the three CGIAR Research Programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Dryland Systems. The chapters are based around four themes: the conceptual underpinnings of systems research; sustainable intensification in practice; integrating nutrition, gender and equity in research for improved livelihoods; and systems and institutional innovation. While most of the case studies are from countries and agro-ecological zones in Africa, there are also some from Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific |
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24 Constraints and opportunities in using multi-stakeholder processes to implement integrated agricultural systems research: The Humidtropics case |
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Print version record |
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Farms, Small.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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Farms, Small
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Sustainable agriculture
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Phillips, Michael
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Thomas, Richard
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Brooijmans, Willemien
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Atta-Krah, Kwesi
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| ISBN |
9781317212010 |
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1317212010 |
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