Laboratory of Plant Production Systems
The vision of Plant Production Systems is to integrate biological knowledge to analyse and design sustainable production systems for crops (including integration with livestock), focused on resource use efficiency and equitable management of natural resources.
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Publication of the Month
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems
There is a need for participatory methods that simultaneously assess agricultural sustainability and resilience at farming
system level, as resilience is needed to deal with shocks and stresses on the pathways to more sustainable systems. We present the
Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Resilient FARMing systems (FoPIA-SURE-Farm). FoPIA-SUREFarm investigates farming system functioning, dynamics of main indicators, and specifies resilience for different resilience capacities, i.e., robustness, adaptability, and transformability...
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Surviving on Half a Hectare of Land: An Introduction to the Issues Surrounding Smallholder Farming in Malawi
Not everyone dealing with agricultural issues in Malawi appreciates the fact that smallholders in this country face challenges which are unique in Africa. No other country in Sub-Saharan Africa has population densities of up to 250 ...
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Thesis topic: The effects of climate change extremes on the physiology of potato
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Thesis topic: Assessment of physiological age of seed potatoes and the subsequent crop performance
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Economic development and climate-friendly palm oil production in Indonesia can go hand in hand
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Thesis topic: Field locations, input use and yields: Operationalizing management gradients in agronomic advisory for smallholder farmers in Songwe, Tanzania
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Potato growers asked for yield differences
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Latest publications
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Review : Holistic pest management against early blight disease towards sustainable agriculture
Pest Management Science (2021). - ISSN 1526-498X -
Regenerative Agriculture : An agronomic perspective
Outlook on Agriculture (2021). - ISSN 0030-7270 -
Yield gap analysis in dairy production systems using the mechanistic model LiGAPS-Dairy
Journal of Dairy Science (2021). - ISSN 0022-0302