Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Rötter, Reimund P. Prof. Dr."
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Improving the wellbeing of smallholder coffee farmers at Masaba (Mount Elgon) in Uganda: An investigation of challenges and resources
(2024-10-08)The coffee sector in Uganda is of great socio-economic importance for the country. For many smallholder farmers in the Masaba region (Mount Elgon) in Uganda, the cultivation of Arabica coffee is the most important source ... -
Evaluating a Collection of Agronomic Traits to Better Understand the Importance of Epistasis and Epistasis by Environment Interaction in Maize.
(2024-04-05)Maize, a key cereal crop, stands alongside wheat and rice in global importance. Its domestication from teosinte in southern Mexico 10,000 years ago marked a turning point in human agriculture. Over the centuries, maize has ... -
Linking crop modelling and experimentation to fully exploit genotypic diversity in barley for climate change adaptation in Europe
(2023-11-28)Summary Future barley production in Europe is projected to face severer and more frequent climate extreme events. Projections have also shown that potential climate-change induced yield losses can be significantly ... -
Coffee Productivity and Water Use in Open vs Shaded Systems along an Altitudinal Gradient at Mt. Elgon, Uganda
(2021-02-05)Coffee is one of the most important agricultural products worldwide. It provides the livelihood of 25 million farmers in tropical countries and of approximately 125 million people along the production chain. Furthermore, ... -
Investigating resource competition in cereal-legume intercropping systems
(2020-10-12)Intercropping has long been a key crop production strategy for low input farming systems, such as those of smallholders, and organic farmers, where two or more crops are used to allow for the complementary use of resources, ... -
The influence of drought stress on yield and forage quality of grasslands differing in functional composition
(2019-03-04)The present study aimed at unraveling the interacting influences of functional group composition, drought stress and N fertilization on sward productivity and forage quality in old semi-natural grassland in Northern Germany. ... -
Productivity, water use and climate resilience of alternative cocoa cultivation systems
(2018-05-23)Global demand for cocoa beans is projected to keep rising while future production is likely to be limited by climate variability and change. Over 70% of the global cocoa supply comes from West Africa, a region expected to ... -
Options for Managing Climate Risk and Climate Change Adaptation in Smallholder Farming Systems of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
(2017-05-31)The Limpopo Province is one of the nine Provinces in South Africa, located in the far north of the country, bordered by Gauteng (south), Mpumalanga (south-east) and North West (south-west) Provinces along its southern ...