The intake of nutrients from different different food group is associated with dietary diversity and is an important component of nutritional outcome. Smallholder cashew farmers in the Jaman north district of Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana is faced with nutritional deficiencies according to health directorate …

Small-scale irrigation is considered one of the options for increasing agricultural productivity and supporting development in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda. It is critically important as an innovative practice in smallholder agriculture in Sub- Saharan Africa. Small-scale irrigation (SSI) technologies …

Professional and academic education increasingly use realistic, rich, safe and interactive tools such as serious gaming. In our case we have used a serious game to teach students how socio-economic and technological opportunities and challenges could shape sustainable businesses in a circular economy. …

The trade-off between high forest and biodiversity loss associated with development of oil palm plantations and their extremely efficient production of vegetable oil supplied the world with cooking oil and biofuel while taking away millions of hectares of forest in Indonesia alone. RSPO certification …

Côte d’Ivoire produces about 42 percent of the world’s total Cocoa but processes only a very few amount of the production. A big part of the country depends on the commercial benefits of the Cocoa production and supply chain of it. For that reason, the World Bank asked the simulation group of the Amsterdam …

Animal welfare has a high importance this day and age. In 1998 the 'Five freedoms' of Brambell have been put in the European law. Thermal comfort for dairy cows is in these five freedoms and so thermal discomfort must be avoided. Heat stress affects animal welfare, milkproduction, udder-health and reproduction …

The subject of this thesis is Internet of Things in the agricultural environment. This subject has been chosen due to the possibilities and advantages it can offer. Internet of Things in agriculture is relevant because farmers are looking for methods in order to improve their business. A lot is already …

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean largely involved in agriculture. The main crop grown on the island is paddy, the island is self-sufficient in producing this crop. Agricultural diversification would be a good option to reduce the dependence on the paddy production. Many different supporting …

This thesis report is a product of a study undertaken to evaluate the benefits of rearing dairy calves using calf milk replacer among the Kenyan smallholder dairy farmers. The scope of the report focused on the main question which was to determine what were the economic benefits accruing from rearing …

Care farms in the Netherlands, also known as social farms, are thought of as valuable day services centres, and sometimes as residential care providers, for highly diverse and mixed groups. This article is about the features of happiness at care farms. The main question is: what is the potential for …