Author: Paul Rogé
-
Ratooning and perennial staple crops in Malawi
Here we review ratooning, as well as the historic role of perennial staple crops in Malawi. Ratooning is a method of harvesting a crop which leaves the roots and the lower parts of the plant uncut to give the ratoon or the stubble crop. This review is completed with interviews with Malawian farmers.
-
Integrating Diverse Grain Legumes for Increased Land Productivity
In two central districts of Malawi, access to land drives the intensity of nutrient use among farms of different resource endowment and production orientation, leading to large variation in soil fertility status and crop productivity. Therefore, technological interventions to address the problem of poor productivity of smallholder agricultural systems must be designed to target socially…
-
Manejo de agroambientes para la resiliencia agroecológica al cambio climático
Las comunidades campesinas en México poseen, por un lado, un acervo importante en cuanto a la agro-diversidad y al conocimiento indígena sobre el manejo del ambiente y la conservación de los recursos naturales; por el otro lado, registran experiencias de prácticas y tecnologías alternativas y novedosas que han sido adoptadas y adaptadas a lo largo…
-
A Systematic Review of Perennial Staple Crops Literature Using Topic Modeling and Bibliometric Analysis
In this review, we compare the development of research on perennial staple crops, including wheat, rice, rye, sorghum, and pigeon pea. We utilized the advanced search capabilities of Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Agricola to gather a library of 914 articles published from 1930 to the present. We analyzed the metadata in the entire…
-
Didactic Toolkit for the Design, Management and Assessment of Resilient Farming Systems
The main objective of this methodological toolkit is to aid farmers and technicians to better understand the principles and/or mechanisms that underlie the resiliency (or lack thereof) of farming systems and how agroecological management can enhance the capacity of farmers to adapt to unpredictable and severe climatic variability.
-
Changes in Climate, Crops, and Tradition
We interviewed small farmers to inquire about the dynamics of abandonment and persistence of a traditional management system known as cajete maize. The previous generation had sown cajete maize more extensively across the landscape, but farmers increasingly relegated it to high elevation, frost prone agricultural environments that were less suited for seasonal maize.
-
Farmer Strategies for Dealing with Climatic Variability
We facilitated workshops in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca, Mexico, in which groups of small farmers described how they had adapted to and prepared for past climate challenges. Farmers reported that their cropping systems were changing for multiple reasons: more drought, later rainfall onset, decreased rural labor, and introduced labor-saving technologies.
