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Do agricultural innovation platforms and soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools improve the production and livelihood of smallholder irrigators in Mozambique?

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11549/
https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1760799
doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1760799
 
Title Do agricultural innovation platforms and soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools improve the production and livelihood of smallholder irrigators in Mozambique?
 
Creator Chilundo, M
de Sousa, W
Christen, E W
Faduco, J
Bjornlund, H
Cheveia, E
Munguambe, P
Jorge, F
Stirzaker, R
van Rooyen, A F
 
Subject Agricultural Marketing
Irrigation
Maize
Agricultural Economics
Mozambique
 
Description Over four years, a research-for-development project was implemented
at the 25 de Setembro irrigation scheme in Mozambique. The
project introduced agricultural innovation platforms to overcome
barriers to production such as input and output supply chains and
poorly maintained irrigation canals. Soil moisture and nutrient
monitoring tools were provided so that farmers could improve
their irrigation and fertilizer management. The farmers increased
their crop production through the use of the tools and better
irrigation infrastructure, and increased their income and overall
well-being through better links to markets and new information
sources facilitated by the agricultural innovation platforms.
 
Publisher Routledge
 
Date 2020-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11549/1/Do%20agricultural%20innovation%20platforms%20and%20soil%20moisture%20and%20nutrient%20monitoring%20tools%20improve%20the%20production%20and%20livelihood%20of%20smallholder%20irrigators.pdf
Chilundo, M and de Sousa, W and Christen, E W and Faduco, J and Bjornlund, H and Cheveia, E and Munguambe, P and Jorge, F and Stirzaker, R and van Rooyen, A F (2020) Do agricultural innovation platforms and soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools improve the production and livelihood of smallholder irrigators in Mozambique? International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0790-0627