Cassava is the second most important source of calories in Sub-Saharan Africa. It subject to economically yield losses from viral diseases, including cassava brown streak disease and mosaic disease. These diseases are vectored by whitefly, so improved approaches for whitefly control needed enable smallholder farmers protect their crops. To investigate economic viability insecticide applications...

Designing and personalising systems for specific user groups encompasses a lot of effort with respect to analysing and understanding user behaviour. The goal of our paper is to provide insights about patterns of behaviour of specific user groups; we consider farmers as a specific user group, during the usage of a decision support system supporting cultivar selection OPTIRas. We analyse users’ p...

Purpose and direction of the programme The SCC Programme in Europe aims to strengthen the capacities of rural cooperatives, farmer organizations and other civil society organizations to address the needs and rights of their members. The Programme supports the endeavours to strengthen farmer organizations and small farmer owned enterprises as well as support their efforts to comply with EU rules...

Looking back to look forward In July 1987, some 50 social and natural scientists of roughly equal numbers met at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK, for a workshop on ‘Farmers and Agricultural Research: Complementary Methods', later more generally known as the „Farmer First' workshop (Chambers et al, 1989). That event marked a key moment in the developmen...

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