Objective
* Study the sustainability and economic performance of LEISA farming practices in low and high agricultural potential areas of Kenya and Uganda.
* Determine potentials of LEISA in relation to Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) and to increase agricultural sustainability and productivity in Kenya and Uganda.
* Formulation of adoption strategy of LEISA farming techniques.
* Dissemination and facilitating implementation of research results to relevant actors like farmers, extension services and NGOs, research institutions and policy makers.
* The project addresses the production systems in an integrated way (in an agronomic, social and economical and environmental context) and is explicitly aiming at appropriate and relevant improvements in the productivity taking into account long-term production and environmental effects.
Expected Outcome
The following concrete outputs are planned:
* comprehensive research reports on the potentials of LEISA farming in developing sustainable agriculture in Kenya and Uganda;
* two articles in international scientific journals;
* articles in popular national and international journals;
* extension materials in the form of a database of nutrient flows, a simple nutrient flow decision support model, leaflets;
* 4 extension/NGO workshops, directed at implementation of the recommendations resulting form research findings;
* 2 policymakers workshops directed at implementation of the recommendations resulting form research findings.
* Measurement of nutrient balances and economic performance at farm household level under LEISA and conventional management through monthly monitoring, measurements and application of formulated frameworks for analysis (nutrient monitoring model, economic model and farm household assessment).
* Impact assessment of selected LEISA techniques through implementation of on-farm trials and farmers' assessment.
* Formulation of development scenarios with participation of all relevant stakeholders.
* Dissemination, training and implementation through organisation of workshops, seminars, training sessions for stakeholders involved (farm households, research, development organisation, extension staff and policy makers).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture sustainable agriculture
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society civil society organisations nongovernmental organizations
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
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2502 LS Den Haag
Netherlands
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