selected publications
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article
- Adapting yet not adopting? Conservation agriculture in Central Malawi. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT. 307:107224. 2021
- Herbicide Induced Hunger? Conservation Agriculture, Ganyu Labour and Rural Poverty in Central Malawi. Journal of Development Studies. 57:1-20. 2021
- Science-based decision support for formulating crop fertilizer recommendations in sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural Systems. 180:102790. 2020
- Reproducibility and external validity of on-farm experimental research in Africa. Experimental Agriculture. 56:587-607. 2020
- ON-FARM TRIALS FOR DEVELOPMENT IMPACT? THE ORGANISATION OF RESEARCH AND THE SCALING OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES. Experimental Agriculture. 55:163-184. 2019
- Capturing farm diversity with hypothesis-based typologies : An innovative methodological framework for farming system typology development. PLOS ONE. 13. 2018
- Rural Transformation, Cereals and Youth in Africa: What Role for International Agricultural Research?. Outlook on Agriculture. 46:168-177. 2017
- Does closing knowledge gaps close yield gaps? On-farm conservation agriculture trials and adoption dynamics in three smallholder farming areas in Zimbabwe. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. 155:81-100. 2017
- Guidelines for Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development. Decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful Innovation Platforms 2017
- Guidelines for innovation platforms in agricultural research for development 2017
- Guidelines for innovation platforms in agricultural research for development: decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful innovation platforms 2017
- Gender and conservation agriculture in East and Southern Africa: towards a research agenda. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 14:142-165. 2016
- Technology adoption and impact research to be done differently? 2016
- The adoption problem; or why we still understand so little about technological change in African agriculture. Outlook on Agriculture. 45:3-6. 2016
- Why are lions killing us? Human-wildlife conflict and social discontent in Mbire District, northern Zimbabwe. Journal of Modern African Studies. 53:93-120. 2015
- Adaptive livelihood strategies employed by farmers to close the food gap in semi-arid south eastern Zimbabwe. Food Security. 6:313-326. 2014
- From adoption claims to understanding farmers and contexts: A literature review of Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption among smallholder farmers in southern Africa. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT. 187:116-132. 2014
- Zhombwe (Neorautanenia brachypus (Harms) C.A.Sm.) – A recent discovery for mitigating effects of drought on livestock in semi-arid areas of Southern Africa. Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 10:199-212. 2012
- Failing to Yield? Ploughs, Conservation Agriculture and the Problem of Agricultural Intensification: An Example from the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Journal of Development Studies. 48:393-412. 2012
- Delineating the drivers of waning wildlife habitat: The predominance of cotton farming on the fringe of protected areas in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Biological Conservation. 144:1481-1493. 2011
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- Guidelines for innovation platforms in agricultural research for development : decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful innovation platforms 2017
- The sociology of on-farm experiments : design, management and converging interests in agricultural research-for-development in Africa 2016
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editorial article
- ON-FARM TRIALS AS 'INFECTION POINTS'? A RESPONSE TO WALL ET AL.. Experimental Agriculture. 55:195-199. 2019
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- Rethinking technological change in smallholder agriculture. Outlook on Agriculture. 169-180. 2019
- DOING DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED AGRONOMY: RETHINKING METHODS, CONCEPTS AND DIRECTION. Experimental Agriculture. 157-162. 2019
- Comment on "Evaluating conservation agriculture for small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia" [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 187 (2014) 1-10]. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT. 21-23. 2014
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review
- INNOVATION PLATFORMS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT: Ex-ante Appraisal of the Purposes and Conditions Under Which Innovation Platforms can Contribute to Agricultural Development Outcomes. Experimental Agriculture. 575-596. 2019
- Does size matter? A critical review of meta-analysis in agronomy. Experimental Agriculture. 200-229. 2019
- Affordances of agricultural systems analysis tools: A review and framework to enhance tool design and implementation. Agricultural Systems. 20-30. 2018
- Beyond conservation agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science. 870-870. 2015