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Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila
Researcher at University for Development Studies
Publications - 10
Citations - 69
Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila is an academic researcher from University for Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Engineering. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications receiving 32 citations.
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Impact of Zai technology on farmers’ welfare: Evidence from northern Ghana
Dennis Sedem Ehiakpor,Gideon Danso-Abbeam,Gideon Danso-Abbeam,Gilbert Dagunga,Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified the determinants of farm households' decision to adopt Zai technology as well as its impact on their welfare using randomly collected cross-sectional data from northern Ghana.
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An analysis of household farm investment decisions under varying land tenure arrangements in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of land ownership and ownership arrangements on households' investment behavior was evaluated using data collected from the Farmer-Based Organisations (FBO) survey and found that individual land ownership increased both the probability of investing and level of investments made in land improvement and irrigation probably due to increasing importance households place on land ownership.
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Small farming and generational renewal in the context of food security challenges
Katarzyna Żmija,Arlindo Fortes,Moses Nganwani Tia,Sandra Šūmane,Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila,Dariusz Żmija,Łukasz Satoła,Lee-Ann Sutherland +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the issues related to generational renewal in small farms and find that young people tend to be more oriented towards developing businesses on their small farms, and nearly all believed that they could increase the production levels on their farms.
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Enhancing healthy ecosystems in northern Ghana through eco-friendly farm-based practices: insights from irrigation scheme-types
Caesar Agula,Franklin Nantui Mabe,Mamudu Abunga Akudugu,Saa Dittoh,Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila,Ayaga A. Bawah +5 more
TL;DR: Policy makers, implementers, and other stakeholders need to consider the capacity building of irrigation farmers, especially those in SIS in northern Ghana by educating them on agricultural production and ecosystem nexus to enhance the level of usage and willingness to pay for EBFMPs sustainability.
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The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security: A participatory scenario analysis from Europe and Africa
Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda,Olga M. Moreno-Pérez,L. Arnalte-Mur,Pedro Cerrada-Serra,Victor Martinez-Gomez,Barbara Adolph,Joanes Atela,Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila,Isaurinda Baptista,R. Barbu,Hilde Bjørkhaug,Marta Czekaj,Dominic Duckett,Arlindo Fortes,Francesca Galli,G. Goussios,Paola A. Hernández,Pavlos Karanikolas,Kennedy Machila,Elpiniki Oikonomopoulou,Paolo Prosperi,Maria Rivera,Łukasz Satoła,Monika Szafrańska,Talis Tisenkopfs,Charles Kipyegon Tonui,Richard Wilfred Nartey Yeboah +26 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared outcomes of 13 participatory foresight workshops and found that small farms' and businesses' contribution to food security was important in three of the four considered scenarios.