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Farm typologies and sustainable intensification: where the rubber meets the road

Explore diverse farm typologies and sustainable intensification strategies tailored to different farmer circumstances. Learn how rotational and intercropping systems can transform farms for better socio-economic outcomes and soil fertility. Discover practical tools to bridge social and biological sciences for targeted agricultural development.

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Farm typologies and sustainable intensification: where the rubber meets the road

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  1. Farm typologies and sustainable intensification: where the rubber meets the road Regis Chikowo, SiegSnapp, Jonathan Odhong, IrmgardHoeschle-Zeledon, MateeteBekunda

  2. Diverse Community No one size fits all Mother and her babies Need to respond to farmer circumstances • Poor farmers (widest band) • ‘rich’ farmers –small proportion

  3. Research on typologies of farms is a good communication tool between social and biological sciences and has the potential to help target agricultural development technologies. Consideration must be taken to remain focused on practical linkages between developed typologies and implementation on farms for transformation.

  4. Sustainable Intensification: Which technologies will likely stand the test of socio-economic realities? • Rotational/sequential systems • for the resource endowed (large farms) • Intercropping-based systems • The resource constrained (small farms) E.g. Resource endowed 2 ha farm: rotational-based farm design Year 1 Year 3 NP Reduced NP fertilizer

  5. Resource endowed 2 ha farm: rotational-based farm design NP Year 2 NP Year 3 Reduced NP fertilizer

  6. Resource constrained 0.6 ha farm: intercropping-based farm design Year 1 Year 3 Resource constrained 0.6 ha farm: intercropping-based farm design Year 2

  7. Resource constrained 0.6 ha farm: intercropping-based farm design Year 3

  8. Conclusions • Simple investments on farms that are ordinarily low on face value are often too high for the majority of farmers • Capacity to absorb risk is near zero, therefore strategic re-design of farms may break the poverty cycle • In both trajectories, the cropping patterns harness biological N2-fixation, ensure grain legume diversity for family nutrition and risk-buffered market opportunities, and concurrently add quality organic residues for soil fertility enhancement

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