Root, tuber, and banana (RT&B) crops play a critical role in food and nutrition security in developing countries, increasingly so in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). They have great potential to contribute to alleviate poverty, improve health and nutrition, and enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change. However, RT&Bs are characterized by unique chal…
L’agroécologie est avant tout un nouveau paradigme qui vise à valoriser les processus biologiques pour couvrir à la fois des attentes de production agricole et d’autres ser-vices écosystémiques des agrosystèmes: protéger les ressources, contribuer à atténuer le changement climatique, préserver les habitats et les patrimoines culturels. Un corol-laire est de considérer l’agroéc…
Horticulture may be described as the practice of growing plants in a relatively intensive manner. This contrasts with agriculture, which, in most Western European countries, relies on a high level of machinery use over an extensive area of land, consequently involving few people in the production process. The boundary between the two is far from clear, especially when considering large-sca…