To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and advanced research institute | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Queensland | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Lancaster University | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Livestock Research Institute | |
| cg.contributor.crp | Dryland Systems | |
| cg.contributor.donor | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Mariana Rufino: 0000-0003-4293-3290 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Mark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839 | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.01.010 | |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | |
| cg.issn | 0308-521X | |
| cg.journal | Agricultural Systems | |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | |
| cg.subject.ilri | CROP-LIVESTOCK | |
| cg.subject.ilri | DATA | |
| cg.subject.ilri | FARMING SYSTEMS | |
| cg.subject.ilri | RESEARCH | |
| cg.volume | 153 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodríguez, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Voil, P. de | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rufino, Mariana C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Odendo, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wijk, Mark T. van | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-07T13:27:10Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-07T13:27:10Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79783 | |
| dc.title | To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data | en |
| dcterms.abstract | African farmers are poorly resourced, highly diverse and aground by poverty traps making them rather impervious to change. As a consequence R4D efforts usually result in benefits but also trade-offs that constraint adoption and change. A typical case is the use of crop residues as mulches or as feedstock. Here we linked a database of household surveys with a dynamic whole farm simulation model, to quantify the diversity of trade-offs from the alternative use of crop residues. Simulating all the households in the survey (n = 613) over 99 years of synthetic climate data, showed that benefits and trade-offs from “mulching or munching” differ across agro-ecologies, and within agro-ecologies across typologies of households. Even though trade-offs between household production or income and environmental outcomes could be managed; the magnitude of the simulated benefits from the sustainable intensification of maize-livestock systems were small. Our modelling framework shows the benefits from the integration of socio-economic and biophysical approaches to support the design of development programs. Our results support the argument that a greater focus is required on the development and diversification of farmers' livelihoods within the framework of an improved understanding of the interconnectedness between biophysical, socio-economic and market factors. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Rodriguez, D., Voil, P. de, Rufino, M.C., Odendo, M. and Wijk, M.T. van. 2017. To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data. Agricultural Systems 153: 32-42 | en |
| dcterms.extent | p. 32-42 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-05 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Elsevier | |
| dcterms.subject | mulch | en |
| dcterms.subject | farming systems | en |
| dcterms.subject | research | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |
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