e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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Socio-economic determinants of growing trees on farms in the middle hills of Nepal

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Abstract

On-farm tree growing is potentially important for livelihood strategies and forest conservation, and varies greatly according to local contexts. A detailed knowledge base is therefore needed, requiring, inter alia, the documentation of factors associated with growing trees on farms. The present study surveyed 304 randomly sampled households in ten community forestry user groups in Nepal, eliciting data on demographics, income and consumption of tree products. All trees on households' farm land were registered by species. Farmers had on average 65 trees per hectare and a total of 92 species were found. The Shannon-Wiener index was 2.46 and Simpson's Dominance index was 0.15. Trees on farmland contributed on average 43 % of households' firewood and fodder consumption. Apparent determinants of tree growing were identified through OLS regression; they included size of land and livestock holdings, education and firewood consumption, while income, ethnicity and sex of household head were not significant. Households' network and distance between household dwellings and the forest were negatively related with on-farm tree growing. Findings indicate that community forestry practices work to the detriment of the poorest households.

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Year
2015
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Country
  • DK
Organization
  • Univ_Copenhagen (DK)
Data keywords
  • knowledge
  • knowledge based
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Agriculture keywords
  • farm
  • livestock
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Data topic
  • information systems
  • knowledge transfer
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SO
AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
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Institutions 10 co-publis
  • Univ_Copenhagen (DK)
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e-ROSA - e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730988.
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