Authors
Ken E Giller, Pablo Tittonell, Mariana C Rufino, Mark T Van Wijk, Shamie Zingore, Paul Mapfumo, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah, M Herrero, Régis Chikowo, Marc Corbeels, EC Rowe, F Baijukya, A Mwijage, Julian Smith, E Yeboah, WJ Van der Burg, OM Sanogo, Michael Misiko, Nico De Ridder, S Karanja, C Kaizzi, J K’ungu, M Mwale, D Nwaga, Cesare Pacini, Bernard Vanlauwe
Publication date
2011/2/1
Journal
Agricultural systems
Volume
104
Issue
2
Pages
191-203
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
African farming systems are highly heterogeneous: between agroecological and socioeconomic environments, in the wide variability in farmers’ resource endowments and in farm management. This means that single solutions (or ‘silver bullets’) for improving farm productivity do not exist. Yet to date few approaches to understand constraints and explore options for change have tackled the bewildering complexity of African farming systems. In this paper we describe the Nutrient Use in Animal and Cropping systems – Efficiencies and Scales (NUANCES) framework. NUANCES offers a structured approach to unravel and understand the complexity of African farming to identify what we term ‘best-fit’ technologies – technologies targeted to specific types of farmers and to specific niches within their farms. The NUANCES framework is not ‘just another computer model’! We combine the tools of systems analysis and …
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