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Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa

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    Chapter 1 Bridging the Soil Map of Rwanda with the ‘Farmer’s Mental Soil Map’ for an Effective Integrated and Participatory Watershed Management Research Model
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    Chapter 2 Intensification of Crop–Livestock Farming Systems in East Africa: A Comparison of Selected Sites in the Highlands of Ethiopia and Kenya
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    Chapter 3 Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 4 Farmers’ Knowledge and Perception of Climbing Beans-Based Cropping Systems in Rwanda
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    Chapter 5 Securing Crop Phosphorus Availability in the Humid Tropics: Alternative Sources and Improved Management Options – A Review
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    Chapter 6 A Decade of Agricultural Research in Rwanda: Achievements and the Way Forward
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    Chapter 7 Do Commercial Biological and Chemical Products Increase Crop Yields and Economic Returns Under Smallholder Farmer Conditions?
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    Chapter 8 Enhanced Utilization of Biotechnology Research and Development Innovations in Eastern and Central Africa for Agro-ecological Intensification
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    Chapter 9 Investing in Land and Water Management Practices in the Ethiopian Highlands: Short- or Long-Term Benefits?
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    Chapter 10 Yield Responses of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Varieties to Phosphorus Fertilizer Application Across a Soil Fertility Gradient in Western Kenyan Highlands
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    Chapter 11 Innovations to Overcome Staking Challenges to Growing Climbing Beans by Smallholders in Rwanda
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    Chapter 12 Crop–Livestock Interaction for Improved Productivity: Effect of Selected Varieties of Field Pea (Pisum sativum L.) on Grain and Straw Parameters
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    Chapter 13 From Standards to Practices: The Intensive and Improved Rice Systems (SRI and SRA) in the Madagascar Highlands
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    Chapter 14 Identification of Elite, High Yielding and Stable Maize Cultivars for Rwandan Mid-altitude Environments
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    Chapter 15 Determination of Appropriate Rate and Mode of Lime Application on Acid Soils of Western Kenya: Targeting Small Scale Farmers
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    Chapter 16 Assessment of Fertilizer Use Efficiency of Maize in the Weathered Soils of Walungu District, DR Congo
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    Chapter 17 Improvement of Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) Production with Fertilizer and Organic Inputs in Rwanda
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    Chapter 18 Evaluation of Sweetpotato Varieties for the Potential of Dual-Purpose in Different Agroecological Zones of Kenya
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    Chapter 19 Livelihoods Heterogeneity and Water Management in Malawi: Policy Implications for Irrigation Development
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    Chapter 20 Access to Subsidized Certified Improved Rice Seed and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Rice Farming Households in Nigeria
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    Chapter 21 Factors Influencing the Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in Rwanda: An Application of the Conditional Logit Model (CLM)
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    Chapter 22 Assessing the Influence of Farmers’ Field Schools and Market Links on Investments in Soil Fertility Management Under Potato Production in Uganda
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    Chapter 23 Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 24 Improving the Availability of Quality Planting Materials Through Community-Based Seed and Seedling Systems: The Case of Rural Resource Centres in Cameroon
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    Chapter 25 Returns to Production of Common Bean, Soybean, and Groundnut in Rwanda
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    Chapter 26 Institutions and the Adoption of Technologies: Bench Terraces in Rwanda
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    Chapter 27 Beyond the Pilot Sites: Can Knowledge-Intensive Technologies Diffuse Spontaneously?
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    Chapter 28 Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 29 ISFM Adaptation Trials: Farmer-to Farmer Facilitation, Farmer-Led Data Collection, Technology Learning and Uptake
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Title
Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
Published by
Springer, Cham, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07662-1
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978-3-31-907661-4, 978-3-31-907662-1
Editors

Bernard Vanlauwe, Piet van Asten, Guy Blomme

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 112 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 17%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 4 3%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 30 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 44%
Environmental Science 12 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 5%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 33 29%