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Modelling crop-livestock systems for achieving food security and increasing production efficiencies in the Ethiopian highlands
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Modelling crop-livestock systems for achieving food security and increasing production efficiencies in the Ethiopian highlands
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| Creator |
Amede, Tilahun
Delve, Robert J. |
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MIXED FARMING
FOOD SECURITY FOOD PRODUCTION |
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| Description |
An action research process was conductedwith communities in Gununo, southern Ethiopia (2000–2003), to develop alternative cropping strategies for achieving their food security and cash needs. Farmers identified three major production objectives depending on their household priorities and socio-economic status. In Group I, farmers are currently food insecure and want to produce enough food from their own farms. In Group II, they produce enough food but want to fulfil their financial needs. In Group III, farmers rely on off-farm activities and want to increase cash income. The current system mostly fulfils the nutritional requirement of Group II. Groups I and III were highly food deficit from their own farms, with production covering less than seven months per year and fulfilling
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2010-04-18T19:31:16Z
2010-04-18T19:31:16Z 2008-10-03 |
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Journal Article
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Amede,T.; Delve, R. 2008. Modelling crop-livestock systems for achieving food security and increasing production efficiencies in the Ethiopian highlands. Experimental Agriculture. 44(4): 441-452
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/1266 |
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en
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Experimental Agriculture
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