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Fergus Sinclair
Affiliation : World Agroforestry Centre
- 58Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Fergus Sinclair has 58 indexed publications (2010–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Agroforestry Systems”, “Experimental Agriculture” and “Agricultural Systems”. Their most cited article, “Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review” (2020), has been cited 926 times. 3 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United Kingdom, Indonesia, Sweden, Netherlands.
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Create my free profile Add my publicationsPublications (58)
- Revisiting agroecological transitions in Rwanda a decade later: the role of local knowledge in understanding the crop diversity–food security–land degradation nexus
- Enhancing maize (Zea mays) productivity through integrated soil fertility management: a participatory approach in the degraded soils of Kigoma, Tanzania
- The ties that bind: how trees can enhance agroecological transitions
- Impact of Zero Budget Natural Farming on Crop Yields in Andhra Pradesh, SE India
- Global analysis of yield benefits and risks from integrating trees with rice and implications for agroforestry research in Africa
- Land use intensification in a dry-hot valley reduced the constraints of water content on soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality but increased CO2 production
- Litter-derived nitrogen reduces methane uptake in tropical rainforest soils
- ShadeMotion: tree shade patterns in coffee and cocoa agroforestry systems
- Climate change adaptation in and through agroforestry: four decades of research initiated by Peter Huxley
- Ten people‐centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration
- Rehabilitation and renovation of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems. A review
- Adoption of Agroforestry in Northwest Viet Nam: What Roles Do Social and Cultural Norms Play?
- Onto the Farm, into the Home: How Intrahousehold Gender Dynamics Shape Land Restoration in Eastern Kenya
- Bringing evidence to bear for negotiating tradeoffs in sustainable agricultural intensification using a structured stakeholder engagement process
- Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review
- Opportunities and Constraints for Using Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration for Land Restoration in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Drivers of farmer-managed natural regeneration in the Sahel. Lessons for restoration
- Maintaining Diversity of Integrated Rice and Fish Production Confers Adaptability of Food Systems to Global Change
- Local Knowledge about Ecosystem Services Provided by Trees in Coffee Agroforestry Practices in Northwest Vietnam
- Farmer-led approaches to increasing tree diversity in fields and farmed landscapes in Ethiopia
- Assessing Context-Specific Factors to Increase Tree Survival for Scaling Ecosystem Restoration Efforts in East Africa
- THE OPTIONS BY CONTEXT APPROACH: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN AGRONOMY
- Regenerated trees in farmers’ fields increase soil carbon across the Sahel
- Farmers' knowledge of soil quality indicators along a land degradation gradient in Rwanda
- Implications of variation in local perception of degradation and restoration processes for implementing land degradation neutrality
- Using Local Agroecological Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Tree-Based Options in Northern Morocco
- The utility of farmer ranking of tree attributes for selecting companion trees in coffee production systems
- STRUCTURED STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT LEADS TO DEVELOPMENT OF MORE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE AGROFORESTRY OPTIONS
- Accurate crop yield predictions from modelling tree-crop interactions in gliricidia-maize agroforestry
- Enhancing maize productivity in agroforestry systems through managing competition: lessons from smallholders’ farms, Rift valley, Kenya
- TO CONTROL OR NOT TO CONTROL: HOW DO WE LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW AGRONOMIC INNOVATIONS PERFORM ON FARMS?
- Trees in agricultural landscapes enhance provision of ecosystem services in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Understanding patterns of tree adoption on farms in semi-arid and sub-humid Ethiopia
- Provenance and pretreatment effect on seed germination of six provenances of Faidherbia albida (Delile) A. Chev
- LOCAL KNOWLEDGE OF TREE ATTRIBUTES UNDERPINS SPECIES SELECTION ON COFFEE FARMS
- Variability of Soil Micronutrients Concentration along the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
- Relationships between on-farm tree stocks and soil organic carbon along an altitudinal gradient, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
- LOADING THE DICE IN FAVOUR OF THE FARMER: REDUCING THE RISK OF ADOPTING AGRONOMIC INNOVATIONS
- Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests
- Roots of inequity: How the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices
- Field-scale modeling of tree–crop interactions: Challenges and development needs
- Illusions of empowerment? Questioning policy and practice of community forestry in Kenya
- Evaluating factors influencing heterogeneity in agroforestry adoption and practices within smallholder farms in Rift Valley, Kenya
- Can co-management of government forest reserves achieve devolution? Evidence from Malawi
- Tree species diversity and abundance in coffee farms adjacent to areas of different disturbance histories in Mabira forest system, central Uganda
- Farmers in Côte d’Ivoire value integrating tree diversity in cocoa for the provision of ecosystem services
- Development and use of a typology of mapping tools to assess their fitness for supporting management of ecosystem service provision
- The political economy of forest entitlements: can community based forest management reduce vulnerability at the forest margin?
- Scaling up agroforestry requires research ‘in’ rather than ‘for’ development
- An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas
- Consistency in bird use of tree cover across tropical agricultural landscapes
- Local knowledge of impacts of tree cover on ecosystem services in smallholder coffee production systems
- More Stable Productivity of Semi Natural Grasslands than Sown Pastures in a Seasonally Dry Climate
- Effects of light environment on maize in hillside agroforestry systems of Nepal
- Cereal yield response to conservation agriculture practices in drylands of West Africa: A quantitative synthesis
- Exotic tree species displace indigenous ones on farms at intermediate altitudes around Mount Kenya
- Maintaining the Conservation Value of Shifting Cultivation Landscapes Requires Spatially Explicit Interventions
- Conservation value of dispersed tree cover threatened by pasture management
Publication venues
- Agroforestry Systems × 10
- Experimental Agriculture × 5
- Agricultural Systems × 3
- Frontiers in Agronomy × 2
- Sustainability × 2
- The Science of The Total Environment × 2
Publications per year
- 20252
- 20241
- 20225
- 20216
- 20207
- 20192
- 20184
- 20174
- 20167
- 20157
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology · Bangor University · Center for International Forestry Research · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences · Wageningen University & Research
Co-authors’ countries : United Kingdom · Indonesia · Sweden · Netherlands
Co-authors
- Catherine Wangari Muthuri
- Richard Coe
- Leigh Ann Winowiecki
- Edmundo Barrios
- Christine Magaju
- Kiros Hadgu
- Anne W. Kuria
- Jules Bayala
- John Nyaga
- Esther Kiura
- Emilie Smith Dumont
- Ingrid Öborn
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