{"id":1458,"date":"2019-05-14T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:01:36","slug":"crop-production-on-terrace-walls-to-improve-food-security-and-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/05\/14\/crop-production-on-terrace-walls-to-improve-food-security-and-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop production on terrace walls to improve food security and livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1459\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1459 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/terrace-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/terrace-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/terrace-640x409.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/05\/terrace.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Chapagain et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Millions of hillside farmers around the world cultivate crops on narrow terraces, whose walls are often underutilized. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-019-0574-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapagrain et al.<\/a> recently showed that cultivation of wall-climbing crops (e.g. chayote squash, pumpkin, yam) and wall-descending crops (e.g. ricebean, cowpea, horsegram, blackgram) can enhance economic returns to farmers. The adoption of this\u00a0promising practice can improve the ecosystems and the well-being of terrace farmers.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-019-0574-2'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of hillside farmers around the world cultivate crops on narrow terraces, whose walls are often underutilized. Scientists Chapagrain et al. recently showed that cultivation of wall-climbing crops (e.g. chayote squash, pumpkin, yam) and wall-descending crops (e.g. ricebean, cowpea, horsegram, blackgram) can enhance economic returns to farmers. The adoption of this\u00a0promising practice can improve the &#8230; <a title=\"Crop production on terrace walls to improve food security and livelihoods\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/05\/14\/crop-production-on-terrace-walls-to-improve-food-security-and-livelihoods\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Crop production on terrace walls to improve food security and livelihoods\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","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=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}