Conveners
Agro-ecological transitions at the landscape and territorial levels: co design
- Mateja Slovenc Grasselli
- Elisa Marraccini
InnoFoodAfrica was a Horizon 2020 project running from 2020 to 2024, with the aim of improving productivity and sustainability of food systems in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The work-package on crop production practices used Farmer Participatory Research (FPR). Experiments in each country tested the impact of certain inputs on modern cultivars and local landraces, with three...
Introduction
Participatory modeling (PM) is an approach in transdisciplinary research in which stakeholders are actively involved in the modeling process (Halbe et al., 2018). The aim is to improve the accuracy of quantitative models (e.g. hydrological models, yield models)(e.g., Beall et al., 2011; Buchheit et al., 2015) or make qualitative models (e.g. actor networks, decision-making...
- Introduction
Viticulture is facing emerging challenges not only because of the effect of climate change on yield and composition of grapes, but also of a social demand for environmental-friendly agricultural management. Adaptation to these challenges is essential to guarantee the sustainability of viticulture. Grapevine varieties are susceptible to fungal attacks, insects, and wood...
The agro-ecological transition confronts the agricultural world, and agronomists in particular, with the need for new, more systemic knowledge on a variety of objects and scales to go towards diversified cropping system (Ditzler 2022). The means that have been implemented for majority crops such as wheat or corn in intensive production systems cannot be deployed for such diversified systems...
Historically, cocoa cultivation in Côte d'Ivoire has moved from the east in the mid-20th century to the west of the country in recent years. The preferred method of cocoa cultivation is on previous forest land use, after clearing and burning the primary forest and girdling the residual trees (Norris et al., 2010). Today, there are 4.4 Mha of cocoa cropping systems cropped by around one million...
1. Introduction
There is a growing interest among farmers and consumers for grain legumes in Sweden and potential in increasing their production and consumption (Röös et al., 2020). This requires better knowledge among farmers and advisors about suitable species, varieties and management practices for different conditions. Since cultivar suitability and management practices...
