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Pro-IntensAfrica: Towards a long-term partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrion security in Africa
- Project Leader
- Wurzinger Maria, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.03.2015-31.03.2017
- Programme:
- Horizon 2020 - Societal Challenges - Coordination & Support Action (CSA)
- EU-Project Instruments
- Coordination Action (CA)
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Project partners
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Wageningen UR, Netherlands.
Contact person: Jaap Uitdenbogaardt;
Function of the Project Partner: Koordinator
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Development Research
- Abstract
- New approaches will be required since sustainable intensification is not only about higher outputs, but also about prudent and efficient use of resources, eco-system services, social and economic impacts, induced technological dependency, limits of natural and energetic resources, etc., all at different scales of time and space. New exciting avenues are offered by agro-ecological approaches based on the understanding and mobilization of agroecological processes like the optimization of available water and nutrients and the control of pests with limited use of fertilizers, pesticides and energy. These avenues need to be analyzed and compared, with the appropriate tools and metrics, in order to evaluate their performance and resource use efficiency as well as their sustainability.
- Keywords
- Cultivation of land; Fishery; Animal production;
- research strategy ; intensification strategies; sustainability;
- Publications
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Kral, R; Probst,L (2016): Sustainable intensification through certified organic agriculture in Uganda. Market opportunities & civil society as drivers of intensification.
Finanziert von: EU Horizon2020 under grant agreement No 652671, 47 FullText
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