"9210","14","archive","1305",,,"disk0/00/00/92/10","2015-12-31 07:54:57","2016-11-11 10:03:12","2015-12-31 07:54:57","conference_item",,,"show",,,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Homann-Kee Tui","S","","","","","","","Homann","S","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","ICRISAT (Bulawayo)","Zimbabwe","Co‐designing the transitions towards integrated market oriented mixed farming systems in semi‐arid Zimbabwe","pub","s2.4","D6","crp1.14","public",,"paper","Mixed Farming Systems, Semi Arid Tropics, Zimbabwe, Livelihood Sources, Smallholders",,,"In semi‐arid Zimbabwe, multiple constraints impact maize‐based crop‐livestock systems creating a
poverty trap. These barriers include low soil fertility, variable climates, weak knowledge support,
and lack of markets. Conventional technical options are insufficient to improve smallholder
livelihoods. Given the diversity in resource endowments and livelihood sources identifying
intensification options that fit circumstances remains problematic. In this paper we demonstrate
co‐designing approaches (i.e. with multiple stakeholders) for two sites i.e. Gwanda and Nkayi
districts, of contrasting agro‐ecological potential. We engaged low, medium and high resource
endowed farmers to (i) co‐design plausible improved scenarios that included incremental changes
‐ testing currently promoted technologies for crop‐livestock intensification and drastic change ‐
assuming that removing barriers will encourage investments towards resilient and profitable
farming; and (ii) We quantified benefits and trade offs from alternative integrated actions using an
integrated whole farm modelling approach (APSFArm‐LivSim‐TOAMD). At both sites incremental
change options improved food security through better‐integrated cereal‐legume‐livestock
systems; income effects were however limited. Drastic change options achieved more substantial
improvements in productivity, food and income generation: farmers set more land in use, with
more diversified forage, food and cash crops and adapted cultivars, organic and mineral fertilizer
application, small‐scale mechanization for ploughing and product processing and improved
livestock management. Packages tailored to farm situations had larger benefits on food security
and income than blanket applications. Recommendations that take into account the socioeconomic
context and policies are key and need to be communicated in more effective ways for
enabling more sustainable futures for smallholders in Zimbabwe.","2015-11","published",,,,,,,"33-34",,"Tropical Agriculture Conference 2015: Meeting the Productivity Challenge in the Tropics","Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia","November 16 - 18, 2015","conference",,,,,,"TRUE",,,,,,,,"","http://tropagconference.com.au/program.html","https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=Co+designing+the+transitions+towards+integrated+market+oriented+mixed+farming+systems+in+semi+arid+Zimbabwe&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5","pub",,"","",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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