NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 
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This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.Helping local industries help themselves in a multi-level biosecurity world – Dealing with the impact of horticultural pests in the trade arena
Publication date: December 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 83 Author(s): Heleen Kruger In many countries the biosecurity system is under financial strain resulting in an on-going push for shared responsibility and greater industry self-reliance. This occurs in an increasing globalised, multi-level trade context. It raises the question of how the broader support system for local industries can be improved to help industries help themselves. This work relates to systems approaches as a phytosanitary measure in horticulture trade to address pest concerns. Specifically, it investigates how to ...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - November 27, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Supporting local institutions for inclusive green growth: Developing an Evidence Gap Map
Publication date: Available online 13 October 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Ezra Berkhout, Jetske Bouma, Nikolaos Terzidis, Maarten Voors We conduct a structured search of the academic literature that assesses the impact of development interventions that aim to build and strengthen local-level institutions to facilitate Inclusive Green Growth. Inclusive Green Growth extends the standard growth perspective to include welfare enhancements both the poor (‘inclusive’) and for future (‘green’) generations. We restrict our search to studies in the domain of agriculture and povert...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - October 13, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Floral visitor assemblages related to coriander genotypes and sowing dates: Relationship with volatile signals
Publication date: Available online 6 October 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Adriana E. Lenardis, Alejandra Gil, Juan Pablo Torretta, Diego Ganly, Juan Pablo Bouilly, Elba B. de la Fuente Intraspecific diversity of crops producing volatile organic compounds could harbor different assemblages of flower visiting insects, improving agricultural landscape heterogeneity and thus, natural regulation of crop pests. In this context, the objectives of this work were i) to evaluate the composition, abundance and richness of floral visitor assemblages in different coriander crop genotypes and...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - October 6, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali
This study looks at three institutional arrangements in the agriculture and food security sector in the district of Koutiala, Mali to analyse the institutional variety across scale and the underlying institutional logics. On one side, the Cooperative Law as well as the Seed Law both designed at national level to enable famers’ access to agriculture services and improved seeds have yielded mixed results with regard to anticipated outcomes. The cooperative law is believed to degrade the social cohesion and the mutual support on which vulnerable farmers rely when facing climatic and non-climatic risks whereas the new seed s...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 29, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Tree management and environmental conditions affect coffee (Coffea arabica L.) bean quality
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Adugna Debela Bote, Vos Jan Coffees with specific taste and quality fetch higher prices. Although coffee plays a dominant role in the Ethiopian national economy, the country’s coffee industry is generally characterized by low productivity and low quality. To address this issue, this study analysed the interactive effect of shade and nitrogen supply, fruit thinning and genotype by environment interactions on different coffee quality attributes. Organoleptic bean quality attributes declined with increase in...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 28, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Frugality and cross-sectoral policymaking for food security
The objective of this paper is to adopt a bottom-up perspective to address the need for cross-sectorality in food security policies. Sustainable Rural Livelihood (SRL) and Grassroots Innovation (GI) are two well recognized schools of thought which emphasize the cross-sectoral approaches to livelihood and local level problem-solving. By embracing a frugality lens, we can offer a conceptual regularity in the patterns of behaviour and decision-making highlighted by the SRL and GI schools of thought. Taking a step further, the frugality lens, by focusing on the usefulness of a decision in the actual environment, emphasizes the...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 20, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Land reform in South Africa: Beneficiary participation and impact on land use in the Waterberg District
This study reviewed policies and literature on land reform, and analyzed beneficiary participation in reformed farms and the impact of land reform on land use in land restitution and land redistribution farms in the Waterberg District Municipality. Data were collected through individual surveys, key informants interviews and stakeholder workshop. Beneficiary participation levels were significantly lower in restitution farms (18% per farm) than in redistribution farms (65% per farm). The changes in land redistribution policy over time resulted in significant differences in beneficiary participation among land redistribution...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 2, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
A diagnostic framework for food system governance arrangements: The case of South Africa
Publication date: Available online 30 August 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Scott Drimie, John Ingram, Laura Pereira, Mark J. Whittingham Although policymakers and scientists are increasingly embracing the food system perspective, it has been poorly reflected in institutional terms. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question as to what forms of governance are most appropriate to govern food systems in a more holistic way. The article presents a diagnostic framework consisting of five principles: 1) system-based problem framing to deal with interlinke...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 31, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
How to diagnose institutional conditions conducive to inter-sectoral food security policies? The example of Burkina Faso
Publication date: Available online 12 August 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Arlène Alpha, Eve Fouilleux The multidimensional nature of food security often leads experts to recommend mobilising all public intervention sectors to ensure that food security policies are inter-sectoral, and not the sole responsibility of a single sector. However, in African contexts such as in Burkina Faso, food security policies are in most cases far from being inter-sectoral. They are instead focused on agricultural production. It is therefore critical to understand why food security policies are what t...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 17, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Technological priorities in rice production among smallholder farmers in Ghana
This study, therefore, models smallholder farmers’ adoption decisions while taking into account the possibility of interdependencies and simultaneities of adopting rice productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies in Ghana. Cross-sectional survey data on 1016 smallholder rice farmers sampled using a three-stage sampling method from four municipalities in two regions in Ghana were used for the study. We fit a multinomial probit model to analyze the decisions to adopt or not to adopt varied combinations of improved rice variety, fertilizer, and herbicide. Our study finds that when faced with improved rice variety-ferti...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 11, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
How does institutional embeddedness shape innovation platforms? A diagnostic study of three districts in the Upper West Region of Ghana
In conclusion, we stress that the institutional identity of facilitating agents and their relationship to members of the platform and to powerholders in the broader context provides a useful diagnostic lens to analyse the processes that shape the platform’s ability to achieve its goals. (Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences)
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 22, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Diagnosing integrated food security strategies
Publication date: Available online 13 July 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Jeroen J.L. Candel The global food price crises of 2007–8 and 2010 and subsequent policy debates have led to increased recognition that the drivers of food insecurity and associated policies transcend the boundaries of traditional governmental sectors and jurisdictions. Building on this insight, many governments of countries facing food insecurity have developed, or are in the progress of developing, integrated food security strategies. However, in spite of their recent popularity, to date little is known about...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 13, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
The interplay between social learning and adaptive capacity in climate change adaptation: A systematic review
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Le Thi Hong Phuong, G. Robbert Biesbroek, Arjen E.J. Wals Successful implementation climate change adaptation depends to a large extent on the capabilities of individuals, organizations, and communities to create and mobilize the adaptive capacity (AC) of their socio-ecological system. Creating and mobilizing AC is a continuous process that requires social learning (SL). Although rich with empirical cases, the literature theorizing and empirically investigating the relationship between AC and SL is highly fragme...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - June 8, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Adaptive Research with and without a Learning Alliance in Myanmar: Differences in learning process and agenda for participatory research
Publication date: Available online 12 April 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): Rica Joy Flor, Harro Maat, Cees Leeuwis, Grant Singleton, Martin Gummert The main challenge for researchers and project staff when implementing inclusive approaches in agricultural innovation is how learning and technology adaptation interact and how to reach jointly set targets. We provide a comparative analysis of the learning process induced by adaptive research (AR) in one case and a combined AR with Learning Alliance (LA) approach in another. The AR approach bridged farmers and researchers, but its impl...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - April 13, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Differences in farmers ’ perception of opportunities for farm development
Publication date: Available online 18 March 2017 Source:NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Author(s): R.G. (Ron) Methorst, D. (Dirk) Roep, F.J.H.M. (Frans) Verhees, J.A.A.M. (Jos) Verstegen This paper empirically identifies differences between dairy farmers in their perception of opportunities for farm development. The construct ‘perceived Room for Manoeuvre’ (pRfM) is used which is defined as: ‘the opportunities perceived as viable in order to obtain a (substantial part of) business income’. A unique case study of 79 dairy farmers operating in a highly comparable socio-material context at the level o...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - March 17, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
