To increase understanding of agricultural intensification processes over time and their sustainability, we studied dimensions sustainability in the context ongoing expansion intensive, commercial mono-cropping banana Southwestern Uganda. In our approach considered five sustainability: economic, productivity, environment, social human. We compared farming systems 1998 2018 integrated a gender le...

Over the past decades, the poultry sector’s growth and trends towards intensification and concentration have given rise to a number of environmental concerns. A direct consequence of these structural changes (industrialization, geographical concentration and intensification) in poultry production is that far more waste than can be managed by land disposal is produced, resulting in environmental...

The recent Crop Intensification Program represents a great opportunity for Rwanda to guarantee food security and strengthen the country`s agricultural productivity. However overwhelming evidence is arising that a sustained growth path will be preserved over time only if the production process incorporates sustainability issues. Through qualitative interviews, a quantitative analysis and finding...

— It is widely agreed that smallholder-led agricultural growth would contribute most to improved food security and reduced poverty. Yet, how to achieve broader and more sustainable access by smallholder farmers to productivity-enhancing inputs for food crop production remains a largely unsolved riddle. In light of the great institutional diversity across cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, th...