‪João Vasco Silva

University of Hohenheim — Germany

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Climate change impacts on agriculture(26), Agricultural Innovations and Practices(21), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility(15), Agricultural risk and resilience(14), Agricultural Economics and Policy(12)

Publications77 total

Crop Diversification as a Pathway to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals 1 (No Poverty) and 2 (Zero Hunger) Among Smallholder Farms of Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Structured Narrative Review
Sustainable Development·2025
Flat planting of cassava is more productive, economic and labour-saving than in annual ridges in the high-rainfall environments of Northern Zambia
Field Crops Research·2025· 1 cited
The dawn of a legume revolution in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and implications
Food Security·2025Open Access
Soil amendments and phosphorus fertilizer increase maize productivity and improve the fertility of acidic soils in Southwestern Ethiopia
2025Open Access
Why crop yields fail to increase in southern Africa
Nature Food·2025
Soil acidity remediation in sub-Saharan Africa requires targeted investments
Nature Food·2025· 1 cited
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa
Food Security·2025· 1 cited
Prospects for cereal self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 10 citedOpen Access
A crop-specific and time-variant spatial framework for characterizing rainfed wheat production environments in Ethiopia
Agricultural Systems·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs
Global Food Security·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Poverty and yield effects of CGIAR maize varieties in smallholder farming systems of Zambia
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Rainfall forecasts, learning subsidies and conservation agriculture adoption: Experimental evidence from Zambia
Climate Services·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Unraveling the contribution of G x E x M interactions to maize productivity in Central Mozambique amid climate change
2025Open Access
Cassava yield was not just a matter of total nutrient inputs: Insights from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi
Field Crops Research·2025· 2 cited
Ensuring sustainable crop production when yield gaps are small: A data-driven integrated assessment for wheat farms in Northwest India
European Journal of Agronomy·2025· 4 cited
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia
Nature Sustainability·2025· 23 citedOpen Access
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: A quantile regression analysis
Food Policy·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Corrigendum to “Climate change impact and adaptation of rainfed cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa” [Eur. J. Agron. 155 (2024) 127137]
European Journal of Agronomy·2024Open Access
Context-dependent agricultural intensification pathways to increase rice production in India
Nature Communications·2024· 18 citedOpen Access
Agronomy, not genetics nor climate change, explains wheat yield plateaus in Northwest Europe
2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

M.K. van Ittersum(21), Pytrik Reidsma(16), Frédéric Baudron(10), Isaiah Nyagumbo(7), Kindie Tesfaye(6), Hari Sankar Nayak(6), K.E. Giller(5), C.M. Parihar(5), Timothy J. Krupnik(5), H.S. Jat(5), M.L. Jat(5), Tek B. Sapkota(5), G. Taulya(4), Régis Chikowo(4), Alice G. Laborte(4), H.S. Sidhu(4), Hambulo Ngoma(4), Esau Simutowe(4), Kelvin Kalala(4), Christian Thierfelder(4)