East Africa / Food security / Humid Tropics / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / SLS / West Africa

What works where for whom? Estimating effects of interventions on food availability in African households

At this week’s international conference on Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture, Randall Ritzema gave a presentation explaining ‘what works where for which farm household’ that estimates the effects of different interventions on food availability across household distributions in East and West Africa. Continue reading

Drylands / Humid Tropics / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Livestock-Water / SLS / Water / WLE

Aqueous Productivity: an enhanced indicator for agricultural water management

At this week’s international conference on Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture, Randall Ritzema presented a poster explaining an ‘aqueous productivity’ (AP) water performance indicator that improves productivity estimations for water in integrated systems. Continue reading