{"id":1878,"date":"2021-04-19T14:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:03:36","slug":"premier-pathways-for-intensification-of-african-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/04\/19\/premier-pathways-for-intensification-of-african-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier pathways for intensification of African agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1879\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1879 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/A-photo-of-agroforestry-parklands-is-Burkina-Faso-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/A-photo-of-agroforestry-parklands-is-Burkina-Faso-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/A-photo-of-agroforestry-parklands-is-Burkina-Faso-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/A-photo-of-agroforestry-parklands-is-Burkina-Faso-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/A-photo-of-agroforestry-parklands-is-Burkina-Faso.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Kuyah et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa struggle to choose good agronomic sustainable intensification practices because they lack information on innovations. Researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-021-00673-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kuyah et al.<\/a> reviewed the innovative practices widely adopted by farmers in specific regions. Agroforestry, cereal-legume intercropping, conservation agriculture, doubled-up legume cropping, fertilizer micro-dosing, planting basins, and push-pull technology are key innovations able to provide multiple benefits, build synergies, increase resource use efficiencies, and reduce agricultural carbon footprints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-021-00673-4'   ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa struggle to choose good agronomic sustainable intensification practices because they lack information on innovations. Researchers Kuyah et al. reviewed the innovative practices widely adopted by farmers in specific regions. Agroforestry, cereal-legume intercropping, conservation agriculture, doubled-up legume cropping, fertilizer micro-dosing, planting basins, and push-pull technology are key innovations able to provide &#8230; <a title=\"Premier pathways for intensification of African agriculture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/04\/19\/premier-pathways-for-intensification-of-african-agriculture\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Premier pathways for intensification of African agriculture\">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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agricultural-intensification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}