LivestockPlus: The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics

IM Rao, M Peters, A Castro, R Schultze-Kraft, D White… - 2015 - cgspace.cgiar.org
As global demand for livestock products (such as meat, milk, and eggs) is expected to
double by 2050, necessary increases to future production must be reconciled with negative …

Climate change impacts and adaptation for dryland farming systems in Zimbabwe: a stakeholder-driven integrated multi-model assessment

SHK Tui, K Descheemaeker, RO Valdivia, P Masikati… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Decision makers need accurate information to address climate variability and change and
accelerate transformation to sustainability. A stakeholder-driven, science-based multi-model …

[PDF][PDF] Potentialités fourragères du mil (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br): Revue de littérature

M Hamadou, S Idrissa, C Mahamadou… - Journal of Animal & …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Dans ce contexte de déficit fourrager, devenu structurel en terroir sahélien, du fait des
changements climatiques et de la pression démographique, le mil est de plus en plus …

Livestock water productivity: feed resourcing, feeding and coupled feed-water resource data bases

M Blümmel, A Haileslassie… - Animal Production …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
While water requirement for livestock is widely perceived as daily drinking water
consumption,~ 100 times more water is required for daily feed production than for drinking …

Nitrogen allocation and recycling in peri-urban mixed crop–livestock farms in Ethiopia

ST Tadesse, O Oenema, C van Beek… - Nutrient Cycling in …, 2019 - Springer
Mixed crop–livestock (MC–LS) farms are assumed to be more environmental friendly than
specialized livestock systems, due to their better options for internal nutrient recycling …

Aligning agricultural research and extension for sustainable development goals in India: A case of Farmer FIRST Programme

P Venkatesan, N Sivaramane, BS Sontakki, CS Rao… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agricultural development and farmers' welfare occupy a central place in the development
goals of India. Various pathways which have evolved over the years have been …

Genetic dissection and quantitative trait loci mapping of agronomic and fodder quality traits in sorghum under different water regimes

VK Somegowda, KVSV Prasad, J Naravula… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Livestock provides an additional source of income for marginal cropping farmers, but crop
residues that are used as a main source of animal feed are characteristically low in …

Fodder biomass, nutritive value, and grain yield of dual‐purpose improved cereal crops in Burkina Faso

N Zampaligré, G Yoda, J Delma, A Sanfo… - Agronomy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In Burkina Faso, availability of quality feed is the major constraint on livestock
productivity. Adoption of improved cereal cultivars among farmers could enhance fodder …

Livestock foraging behaviour on different land use classes along the semi-arid to sub-humid agro-ecological gradient in West Africa

N Zampaligré, E Schlecht - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2018 - Springer
This study compared the use of different land use classes and major foraging activities of
pastoral and agro-pastoral livestock in the southern Sahelian, northern and southern …

Status of integrated crop-livestock research in the mixed farming systems of the Global South: a scoping study

T Mabhaudhi, TP Chibarabada, A Sikka - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mixed farming systems (MFS) are the main food source and exist across almost all
agroecological regions in the Global South. A systematic scoping review was conducted to …