{"id":35,"date":"2020-03-06T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/?p=35"},"modified":"2020-09-12T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:25:27","slug":"thesis-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/2020\/03\/06\/thesis-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/03\/GHG-image-729x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/03\/GHG-image-729x1024.png 729w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/03\/GHG-image-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/03\/GHG-image-768x1079.png 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/03\/GHG-image.png 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">In my thesis the major aspect being addressed is water use efficiency of maize systems by  modeling routes for legume integration into the systems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Library Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Searched available collections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Online Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Searched FAO, CGIAR, Elsevier, Scopus, <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I recently had a chat with resourceful persons in the field of agronomy in southern Africa who shared the sentiments that there is urgent need for efficient utilization of water by most crops if not all, if we are are to survive the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My field research was through the use of Descision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DDSAT), a crop modeling software employed to simulate crop growth, development and yield<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-background-color has-background\">Climate change has caused food insecurity according to FAO 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my thesis the major aspect being addressed is water use efficiency of maize systems by modeling routes for legume integration into the systems. Library Research Searched available collections Online Research Searched FAO, CGIAR, Elsevier, Scopus, I recently had a chat with resourceful persons in the field of agronomy in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/kaluba-banda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}