Efforts to improve soil productive capacity aimed at boosting crop production in the Northern Ghana has primarily focused on field-based experiments with little documentation on farmer practice and local indigenous knowledge ...

Contract farming is considered as institutional arrangements that manage the coordination of production and distribution between smallholder farmers and agro-industrial firms. Under the market reforms and industrialization ...

Inclusively accessible green areas are essential for livable cities. The residential greenery on a door’s step of urban dwellers has rarely been the subject of research. Here we provide insights into the state of the art ...

Reusing wastewater in agriculture has attracted increasing attention as a strategy to support the transition towards the circular economy in the water and agriculture sector. As a consequence, there is great interest in ...

This research analyzes the economic effects of climate change-induced crop yield losses in Benin. As agriculture is a large sector in Benin, the climate change-induced crop yield losses are expected to affect the entire ...

Der mittlerweile 20. Umweltkalender des Bezirks Marzahn-Hellersdorf vermittelt neben schönen fotografischen Eindrücken viel Wissenswertes zum Klimawandel, zur Stadtnatur und zu engagierten Gärtner*innen und Umweltbildner*innen. ...

Städte sind Hotspots anthropogener CO2-Emissionen. Sie besitzen daher eine besondere Verantwortung für die Umsetzung von Maßnahmen und Strategien zur Vermeidung von Treibhausgasemissionen. Ein systematisches Management der ...

A series of factors affect the social perception of hazards in a rural context. This article analyzes how weather conditions influence farmers’ perceptions of natural hazards. In order to understand the relationship between ...

Tanzania is the second-largest producer of rice (Oryza sativa) in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa after Madagascar. Unfortunately, the sector has been performing poorly due to many constraints, including poor ...

Differences between arboreal and terrestrial supports likely pose less contrasting functional demands on the locomotor system at a small body size. For arboreal mammals of small body size, asymmetrical gaits have been ...