Crop science in rice : theory of yield determination and its application

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A Comparative Analysis of Yield Gaps and Water Productivity on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia, South Africa and Tunisia

With changing climatic and market conditions, Indian agriculture sector needs appropriate transition in cropping patterns to ensure sustainability in growth of the sector and inclusiveness of land-constrained farmers in the intensification process. The need for transition in cropping patterns has been accentuated further following the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to loss of non-farm livelihood opportunities for millions and thus created further pressure on agriculture. Nevertheless, promoting transition in the sector would require deeper understanding of the underlying factors and addressing them through appropriate intervention strategies. This paper attempts for the same in context of West Bengal, India that houses significant number of land-constrained farmers. Using panel data of 18 districts for the period from 2004 to 05 to 2013–14, the paper finds crop diversification, irrigation, fertilizer use, road connectivity and market and storage facilities as the major drivers of agrarian transition in favour of non-foodgrains. In addition, the climatic factors such as relative humidity and variations in temperature also influence such transition. While the findings apparently suggest for further development of infrastructure facilities, sustaining the transition would also require agricultural education, extension services and development of human and social capitals in a decentralized manner to incorporate various local level dynamics. 

Climate Change and Transition in Cropping Patterns: District Level Evidence from West Bengal, India

Expanding arable land under irrigation is cardinal in the quest to attain Africa's aspiration of transforming agriculture and realizing its true value and positive impact on wealth creation, economic growth, food security and nutrition for all. Over the last three to four decades, many initiatives have been designed to harness both small- and large-scale irrigation technologies towards increasing agricultural production and productivity. The EAU4Food (European Union and African Union cooperative research to increase food production in irrigated farming systems in Africa) project was a collaborative project under the EU–African Union Scientific Partnership aimed at enabling the successful adoption and upscaling of appropriate irrigation support innovations. The project applied a transdisciplinary approach to design, test and disseminate innovations across the continent. The project was designed to gain better insights vis-a-vis how the innovation process can be enhanced, and to share insights for supporting the implementation of national agricultural development programmes and strategies conceived within the context of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) framework. This note highlights linkages between the CAADP framework and the EAU4Food project and suggests some future areas of attention on Africa's agenda for enhanced agricultural production, facilitated under the auspices of CAADP.

Transdisciplinary development and adoption of irrigation innovations in africa. linkages to principles of caadp: a commentary

Innovations in irrigation systems in africa

Boosting the productivity of smallholder farming systems continues to be a major need in Africa. Challenges relating to how to improve irrigation are multi‐factor and multisectoral, and they involve a broad range of actors who must interact to reach decisions collectively. We provide a systematic reflection on findings from the research project EAU4Food, which adopted a transdisciplinary approach to irrigation for food security research in five case studies in Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa and Tunisia. The EAU4Food experiences emphasize that actual innovation at irrigated smallholder farm level remains limited without sufficient improvement of the enabling environment and taking note of the wider political economy environment. Most project partners felt at the end of the project that the transdisciplinary approach has indeed enriched the research process by providing different and multiple insights from actors outside the academic field. Local capacity to facilitate transdisciplinary research and engagement with practitioners was developed and could support the continuation and scaling up of the approach. Future projects may benefit from a longer time frame to allow for deeper exchange of lessons learned among different stakeholders and a dedicated effort to analyse possible improvements of the enabling environment from the beginning of the research process. © 2020 The Authors. Irrigation and Drainage published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage.

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