Volume 9, Issue 6 | Food Security

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Volume 9, Issue 6

December 2017

Food Security Research in Tanzania (pages 1143-1322)

Issue Editors:

Stefan Sieber,
Frieder Graef,
T.S. Amjath-Babu,
Khamaldin D. Mutabazi,
Siza D. Tumbo,
Anja Faße,
Sergio Gomez Y Paloma,
Constance Rybak,
Marcos A. Lana,
Hycenth Tim Ndah,
Götz Uckert,
Johannes Schuler,
Ulrike Grote

27 articles in this issue

In this issue
R. Strange
Editorial 21 November 2017 Pages: 1137 - 1138
R.K.S. Wood FRS, 1919–2017
Simon Archer
Obituary 18 November 2017 Pages: 1139 - 1141
Introduction to a Special Issue: Regional Food and Nutritional Security in Tanzania – Methods, Tools and Applications
Stefan Sieber
Frieder Graef
Ulrike Grote
Editorial 27 December 2017 Pages: 1143 - 1145
Trans-SEC’s food security research in Tanzania: principles, research models and assumptions
Stefan Sieber
Frieder Graef
Ulrike Grote
Short Communication 27 December 2017 Pages: 1147 - 1155
Factors influencing stunting among children in rural Tanzania: an agro-climatic zone perspective
Hadijah A. Mbwana
Joyce Kinabo
Hans K. Biesalski
Original Paper 22 April 2017 Pages: 1157 - 1171
Influence of gender on roles, choices of crop types and value chain upgrading strategies in semi-arid and sub-humid Tanzania
T. S. Mnimbo
J. Lyimo-Macha
F. Graef
Original Paper 10 June 2017 Pages: 1173 - 1187
Conflict management programs in trans-disciplinary research projects: the case of a food security project in Tanzania
Katharina Löhr
Christian Hochmuth
Stefan Sieber
Original Paper 28 December 2016 Pages: 1189 - 1201
Implications of climate-smart strategy adoption by farm households for food security in Tanzania
Kathleen Brüssow
Anja Faße
Ulrike Grote
Original Paper 07 July 2017 Pages: 1203 - 1218
The integration of smallholders in agricultural value chain activities and food security: evidence from rural Tanzania
Luitfred Kissoly
Anja Faße
Ulrike Grote
Original Paper 16 January 2017 Pages: 1219 - 1235
Simulated willingness of farmers to adopt fertilizer micro-dosing and rainwater harvesting technologies in semi-arid and sub-humid farming systems in Tanzania
Lutengano Mwinuka
Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi
Götz Uckert
Original Paper 02 July 2017 Pages: 1237 - 1253
Expert-based ex-ante assessments of potential social, ecological, and economic impacts of upgrading strategies for improving food security in rural Tanzania using the ScalA-FS approach
Frieder Graef
Götz Uckert
Khamaldin D. Mutabazi
Original Paper 12 January 2017 Pages: 1255 - 1270
Fusion of indigenous knowledge and gamma spectrometry for soil mapping to support knowledge-based extension in Tanzania
Nadja Reinhardt
Ludger Herrmann
Original Paper 14 March 2017 Pages: 1271 - 1284
Developing community-based food security criteria in rural Tanzania
Jana Schindler
Frieder Graef
Devotha Mchau
Original Paper 19 November 2016 Pages: 1285 - 1298
Social organization, constraints and opportunities for kitchen garden implementation: ScalA and ScalA-FS assessment tools in Morogoro and Dodoma, Tanzania
Michelle Bonatti
Larissa H. I. R. Homem
Stefan Sieber
Original Paper 24 October 2017 Pages: 1299 - 1308
Combining participatory, qualitative and quantitative methods for impact assessment of food value chains into an integrated framework
Hannes J. König
Frieder Graef
Stefan Sieber
Original Paper 06 December 2017 Pages: 1309 - 1321
We need radical change in how we produce and consume food
Peter Horton
Opinion Piece Open access 20 November 2017 Pages: 1323 - 1327
Raising chickens for increased egg consumption in a rural highland Bolivian population
Peter R. Berti
Heber Araujo Cossio
Original Paper 09 November 2017 Pages: 1329 - 1341
Yield effects of rust-resistant wheat varieties in Ethiopia
Zewdu Ayalew Abro
Moti Jaleta
Matin Qaim
Original Paper 20 November 2017 Pages: 1343 - 1357
Impact assessment of push-pull pest management on incomes, productivity and poverty among smallholder households in Eastern Uganda
Ruth T. Chepchirchir
Ibrahim Macharia
Zeyaur R. Khan
Original Paper 02 November 2017 Pages: 1359 - 1372
Horticultural postharvest loss in municipal fruit and vegetable markets in Samoa
Steven J. R. Underhill
Yuchan Zhou
Semua Militini Tagoai
Original Article 27 November 2017 Pages: 1373 - 1383
Food availability and livelihood strategies among rural households across Uganda
Jannike Wichern
Mark T. van Wijk
Ken E. Giller
Original Paper Open access 18 November 2017 Pages: 1385 - 1403
Food crop marketing and agricultural productivity in a high price environment: evidence and implications for Mozambique
Rui Benfica
Duncan Boughton
Bordalo Mouzinho
Original Paper 08 November 2017 Pages: 1405 - 1418
Food insecurity in the United States of America: an examination of race/ethnicity and nativity
Ana McCormick Myers
Matthew A. Painter II
Original Paper 22 November 2017 Pages: 1419 - 1432
Can better governance improve food security? An assessment of the public food distribution system in Odisha, India
Anjani Kumar
Shinoj Parappurathu
P. K. Joshi
Original Paper 29 November 2017 Pages: 1433 - 1445
Women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture: does market orientation of farming systems matter?
Soumya Gupta
Prabhu L. Pingali
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Original Paper Open access 13 November 2017 Pages: 1447 - 1463
Dieter Helm: Burn out: the endgame for fossil fuels
Steve Yearley
Book Review 07 October 2017 Pages: 1465 - 1466
Roger Leakey: Multifunctional Agriculture, achieving sustainable development in Africa
Malcolm Blackie
Book Review 09 November 2017 Pages: 1467 - 1468