Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability

Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms. Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on various innovations in agriculture spanning the different agricultural gamut.

Section I Issues, Ideas and Challenges in Agricultural Sector 1. Factors that Ensure a Sustained and Scaled-Up Delivery of Innovation. Dominik Klauser 2. Sustaining Smallholder Farming through Collective Action and Entrepreneurship Jayasree Krishnankutty, Arun Sreekumar, Rajesh K. Raju, and Kadambot H. M. Siddique 3. Technological Innovation Strategy to Strengthen the Competitive Advantages of Smallholder Farmers E. Cornejo-Velazquez, M. Clavel-Maqueda, O.A. Acevedo-Sandoval, and H. Romero-Trejo 4. Analyses of Rural Infrastructure for Agriculture Development Firuza Begham Mustafa and Benjamin Ezekiel Bwadi 5. Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment in Small Holdings: A Sustainable Way for Better Livelihood Riti Chatterjee, Deepa Roy, Gunja Kumari, and Prithusayak Mondal 6. A Pandemic Resilient Framework for Sustainable Soil Health and Food Security: Response beyond COVID-19 Sudip Sengupta, Shubhadip Dasgupta, Kallol Bhattacharyya, Somsubhra Chakraborty, and Pradip Dey Section II Strategies and Platform for Small Farm Livelihoods: Research and Development 7. Technology and Policy Options: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Achieve Sustainable Agriculture Rakesh S, Ranjith Kumar G, Anil D, Ravinder Juttu, Kamalakar Jogula, Sharan Bhoopal Reddy, Bairi Raju, Jogarao Poiba, Umarajashekar A, and Ranvir Kumar 8. The Role of Agricultural R&D within the Agricultural Innovation Systems Framework P. Anandajayasekeram 9. Viable Nutrient Management Options for Sustaining Small Farm Agriculture S. K. Pedda Ghouse Peera, Satya Prakash Barik, Himansu Sekhar Gouda, Sweta Shikta Mohapatra, Debashis Dash, and Santanu Kumar Patra 10. Improving Livelihood and Farm Income of Small-Scale Farmers through Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Girijesh Singh Mahra, V. Sangeetha, Pratibha Joshi, Sujit Sarkar, and Renu Jethi 11. Biogas Technology for Improving Livelihoods and Agricultural Sustainability Shiv Prasad, Anoop Singh, Dhanya MS, Dheeraj Rathore, and Amitava Rakshit 12. Emerging and Remerging Diseases and Their Innovative Management in Jute and Allied Fiber Crops under Small Farm A. N. Tripathi 13. Transition toward Agroecology among Family Farmers: Crop Protection Practices C. A. Costa, A. Aguiar, C. Parente, J. Neto, E. Valério, M. C. Godinho, and E. Figueiredo 14. Does Conservation Agriculture Work for Small-Scale Farmers in Developing Nations? A Mini-Review Anandkumar Naorem, Shiva Kumar Udayana, and Somasundaram Jayaraman 15. Technological and Social Innovations in the Context of Small Brazilian Rural Properties Alexandre Marco da Silva 16. Nanofertilizers for Sustainable Crop Production: A Perspective in Small Farm Agriculture Rubina Khanam, Pedda Ghouse Peera Sheikh Kulsum, Ruma Das, and Sunanda Biswas Section III Innovative Agriculture-Multi-stakeholder Approach in Different Continents: Practice and Performance 17. Sustainable Intensification of Rice-Based Cropping Systems: Experiences from Eastern India A. K. Srivastava, Malay K. Bhowmick, Kanwar Singh, Pardeep-Sagwal, S. Khandai, S. K. Dwivedi, Amit K. Srivastava, V. Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Sampad R. Patra, Virender Kumar, and Sudhanshu Singh 18. Scale-Appropriate Mechanization for Improving Productivity, Profitability, and Sustainability of Rice-Based Cropping Systems in India Pardeep-Sagwal, Suryakanta Khandai, Malay K. Bhowmick, Kanwar Singh, A. K. Srivastava, B. S. Dhillon, S. Rawal, V. Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Sudhanshu Singh, and Virender Kumar 19 Adoption Determinants of Improved Seeds and Technical Efficiency of Ugandan Small Farmers S. Auci and M. Coromaldi 20 Model for Quality Assessment in Small Farms in Cape Verde Margarida Saraiva, Álvaro Rosa, Elsa Simões, and António Ramos Pires 21 Adoption of Improved Agronomic Practices by Small Farmers for Sustainable Crop Production: Case Study from Uttar Pradesh, India P. K. Singh and O. P. Singh 22 Integrated Nutrient Management Technology for Sustainable Vegetable Production in Eastern India Deblina Ghosh, Snigdha Chatterjee, Kaushik Batabyal, and Sidhu Murmu 23 Micropot Method of Nursery Establishment: An Innovative Approach for Greater Climatic Resilience and Higher Crop Productivity Sampad R. Patra and Malay K. Bhowmick 24 Farmers’ Innovations in Smallholdings: The Sustainable Transition in Agriculture of West Bengal Riti Chatterjee, Pravat Utpal Acharjee, Suddhasuchi Das, Amit Baran Sharangi, and Sankar Kumar Acharya 25 Promoting Gender Equality in the Context of Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Management Policies in Indian Mid-Himalayas Kushagra Joshi, Arunava Pattanayak, Renu Jethi, and Vijay Singh Meena 26 Making Rice-Farming System More Climate Resilient and Nutrition Sensitive: Heritage of Kurichiya Tribe Community of Western Ghats N. Anil Kumar, Merlin Lopus, Raveendran Telapurath, and Vipin das 27 Agricultural Innovation and Technology Adoption among Small-Scale Producers in Developing Countries: Is Biotechnology a Sustainable Alternative? Alejandro Barragán-Ocaña, Adalberto de Hoyos-Bermea, Katya Amparo Luna-López, and Tamara Arizbe Virgilio-Virgilio

Dr. Amitava Rakshit, an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus is the faculty member in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, India. His research areas include: Nutrient use efficiency, Simulations modeling, organic farming, Integrated Nutrient Management and bioremediation. His consulting capabilities are: Composting Techniques, Soil Health Management, Input quality Control. He was involved in "Participatory Research" and "Lab to Land" Programmes of ICAR; Dept. of Agricultural Cooperation, Govt. of India; Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal;NHB, New Delhi and NHM for on farm demonstrations of agro-technologies in cereals/pulses/oilseeds/cash crops/vegetables/fruits. Actively involved in imparting training and dissemination of technical knowledge and information to diversified end users. He has supervised approximately seven research projects, many in partnership with industry. He is widely acknowledged for his skills in linking research with the broader community in regional languages. He has been working closely with undergraduate and post-graduate students in BHU presently. He has visited Norway, Finland, Denmark, France, Austria, Russia, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, UAE and Bangladesh number of occasions pertaining to his research work and presentation. Dr. Rakshit has previously worked at Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal in research extension and implementation roles. He is the fellow of TWAS Nxt (Italy), BiovisionNxt (Freance), Society of Earth Scientists, Crop and Weed Science Society. He is presently the Chief Editor of International Journal of Agriculture Environment and Biotechnology (NAAS: 4.55). He is serving as review college member of British Ecological Society, London since 2011-12. He was awarded with Best Teacher’s Award by BHU (ICAR, New Delhi) both at under graduate and post graduate layer in 2012 and 2014. He is a member of Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition of FAO, Rome and Commission on Ecosystem Management of International Union for Conservation of Nature. He is the author of twenty-two books (Springer, CRC, Elsevier, CBS, ATINER, ICFAI, Kalyani, Jain Publishers, IBDC, Scientific Publishers and DPS). He has published 100 research papers, 40 book chapters, 28 popular articles and 3 manuals. Dr. Somsubhra Chakraborty, a Louisiana State University (USA) alumnus is presently the faculty member in the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at West Virginia University, USA. His research areas include portable proximal soil sensor measurement, digital soil mapping, mobile image-based soil analysis, and app development. Moreover, he has proved the applicability of portable XRF to quantify several soil properties and soil heavy metal contents. Dr. Chakraborty has developed a patented methodology for combining multiple proximal soil sensors to improve the predictive accuracy relative to the individual technique in isolation on the analyte of interest (US patent US-2017-0122889-A1) titled "Portable Apparatus for Soil Chemical Characterization". He has on-going collaborations with scientists from several countries including the USA, Canada, Romania, Brazil, China, and Morocco. He has received the Australia Awards Fellowship (2016) and Shastri Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant (2019-20). With more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals, Dr. Chakraborty has an h-index of 23 and i10 index of 41. He is an editorial advisory board member of Geoderma (Elsevier), the global journal of soil science. He is currently supervising five Ph.D. students and co-supervising two Ph.D. students. Dr. Manoj Parihar is currently working at ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi AnusandhanSansthan, Almora, India as a Soil Scientist in Crop Production Division. He did his graduation from SKRAU, Bikaner and selected as ICAR-JRF fellow for post-graduation in Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. He has been awarded doctorate from the same university in the year 2018. He has received various recognitions such as ICAR-SRF, UGC-BSR, UGC-RGNF etc. His research works extend to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity, ecological functions and inoculum production aspects for improving soil health and sustainable agricultural production. He has edited two books, and published >10 book chapters and >25 peer-reviewed journal papers. Dr. Vijay Singh Meena, working as a Project Coordinator at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)-Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA). He worked as Scientist at ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, India. His research areas include various aspects of soil aggregation, carbon management index and carbon and nitrogen sequestration potential under different land types and cropping syste