Promoting climate smart agriculture in Malawi for sustainable food security
Climate change is increasingly constraining the ability of forest ecosystem services to sustain agricultural production and improve food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in Malawi. In Malawi, smallholder agricultural productivity is low with very poor diversification of the production systems. Rainfall distribution within and between seasons is often erratic, and water use efficiencies are low because of low soil fertility. On the other hand, the use of chemical fertilizer is low and risky in terms of potential economic losses for cash constrained smallholders. Soil organic carbon levels in many places have declined significantly, leading to poor responsiveness of soils to fertilizer inputs.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-204212023-11-09T15:22:35Z Promoting climate smart agriculture in Malawi for sustainable food security Mutenje, M. Nyagumbo, I. Setimela, P.S. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Climate change is increasingly constraining the ability of forest ecosystem services to sustain agricultural production and improve food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in Malawi. In Malawi, smallholder agricultural productivity is low with very poor diversification of the production systems. Rainfall distribution within and between seasons is often erratic, and water use efficiencies are low because of low soil fertility. On the other hand, the use of chemical fertilizer is low and risky in terms of potential economic losses for cash constrained smallholders. Soil organic carbon levels in many places have declined significantly, leading to poor responsiveness of soils to fertilizer inputs. 4 pages 2019-11-05T14:40:47Z 2019-11-05T14:40:47Z 2019 Brochure Published Version https://hdl.handle.net/10883/20421 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF MALAWI Mexico CIMMYT |
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Climate change is increasingly constraining the ability of forest ecosystem services to sustain agricultural production and improve food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in Malawi. In Malawi, smallholder agricultural productivity is low with very poor diversification of the production systems. Rainfall distribution within and between seasons is often erratic, and water use efficiencies are low because of low soil fertility. On the other hand, the use of chemical fertilizer is low and risky in terms of potential economic losses for cash constrained smallholders. Soil organic carbon levels in many places have declined significantly, leading to poor responsiveness of soils to fertilizer inputs. |
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