Habitat restoration to promote wild pollinator populations is becoming increasingly common in agricultural lands. Yet, little is known about how wild bees, globally the most important wild pollinators, use resources in restored habitats. We compared bee use of native and exotic plants in two types of restored native plant hedgerows: mature hedgerows (>10 years from establishment) designed for n...

The system fertilization approach emerged to improve nutrient use efficiency in croplands. This new concept aims at taking advantage of cycling within an agroecosystem obtain maximum production from each unit. To monitor this effect, methodologies such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) are promising evaluate plant biomass and content. We evaluated NDVI a predictor shoot bioma...

The role of ungulate grazing in shaping rangeland ecosystems is well known relative to other important plant-animal interactions such as pollination, seed dispersal, granivory, and belowground herbivory. Successful rangeland revegetation may be enhanced by strategies that favor certain groups of animals and discourage others. Many perennial forbs and shrubs require animals for successful pollin...

Maintaining diversity of small ruminant genetic resources is instrumental for sustainable agricultural production. Community-based livestock breeding programs (CBBPs) have emerged as a potential approach to implement in smallholder farms. This study assesses the viability CBBPs conservation and improvement indigenous ruminants, using case studies goat Malawi Uganda. Data were collected focus gr...