Low household dietary diversity is a persistent problem experienced by settled pastoralists households living in Turkana which is highly contributed by the persistent rate of food insecurity. A problem arises from households’ inability to access diverse food and nutritious diets due to insufficient food …

Rwanda is landlocked and does not have other resources, so the population depends on agriculture as the main economic activity. It is from agriculture that the majority of the people get food for their survival. However, people in the country have been practising subsistence agriculture using traditional …

Kalumwange Farm Block is the largest farm block in the Western Province of Zambia. The farm block is situated in the Kaoma district, and small-scale farmers mainly occupy it. With a size of 100,000 hectares, on average, Kalumwange Farm Block produces over 1,242,000 kilograms of maize. This is in a farming …

The sustainable provision of enough nutritious food for a growing world population is pushing the food system towards finding new approaches to agriculture (Ockenden, et al., 2017). While the demand of animal products is rising (Armanda, Guinée, & Tukker, 2019), the negative effect on the climate, soil, …

A dike has been punctured to allow limited tidal waterflows into an agricultural landscape near the village of De Heen in the west of Brabant Province. A transition towards a brackish agriculture will be supported by a saline visitor center that is embedded in the water flows surrounded by new crops, …

Dit afstudeerproject is uitgevoerd in opdracht van ‘Pluk! Groenten van West’, een in Amsterdam gevestigde Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Een CSA is een alternatief voedselnetwerk dat functioneert als innovatieve oplossing voor de problematiek van lange ketens tussen producent en consument. De …

While the status of UN SDG14 Life Below Water lags behind in the Netherlands, target horizons for certain targets have been either reached or are fast approaching (2020, 2025, 2030). In 2016, recommendations have been formulated by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, for adjustments …

Agriculture is the largest employer of labour force in Nigeria employing about 70 percent of the country’s workforce and contributed 21.42% to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018. Poultry is one important component of livestock serving as a source of dietary protein. In addition, the poultry industry …

Over the last ten years, Liberia has recorded temperature increase and low rainfall. Due to this, productivity in agriculture has drastically decreased and now Liberia imports 75% of its staple food(rice). Liberia’s agriculture segment is considered forest-based under traditional systems of subsistence …

The dairy sector in Kenya is one of the pillars for smallholder farmers' livelihoods through the generation of income, employment, and food to 2 million people across the dairy value chain although the sector is still vulnerable to climate change. Agriterra stimulates climate-smart agriculture and carbon …