{"id":1209,"date":"2018-06-15T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:27:38","slug":"managing-trade-offs-in-malawian-cropping-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/06\/15\/managing-trade-offs-in-malawian-cropping-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing trade-offs in Malawian cropping systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1210\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1210 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/13593_2018_506_Fig1_HTML-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/13593_2018_506_Fig1_HTML-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/13593_2018_506_Fig1_HTML-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/13593_2018_506_Fig1_HTML.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/13593_2018_506_Fig1_HTML-640x446.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Samson &#8211; CIMMYT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The income of millions of African farmers relies on maize-based cropping systems cultivated in soils often depleted of nutrients. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-018-0506-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Komarek et al.<\/a> show that farms growing maize in rotation with legumes increase the stability of their profit. In contrast, such rotations have a much lower average caloric yield and use more labor than maize monoculture. Risk and labor factors must therefore be carefully evaluated before applying alternative cropping systems.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-018-0506-6'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The income of millions of African farmers relies on maize-based cropping systems cultivated in soils often depleted of nutrients. Scientists Komarek et al. show that farms growing maize in rotation with legumes increase the stability of their profit. In contrast, such rotations have a much lower average caloric yield and use more labor than maize &#8230; <a title=\"Managing trade-offs in Malawian cropping systems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/06\/15\/managing-trade-offs-in-malawian-cropping-systems\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Managing trade-offs in Malawian cropping systems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-production-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}