{"id":94,"date":"2018-04-30T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/?p=94"},"modified":"2018-04-30T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:01:54","slug":"mixed-production-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/2018\/04\/30\/mixed-production-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed production systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/mixed-farming-systems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/mixed-farming-systems.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/mixed-farming-systems-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/mixed-farming-systems-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/mixed-farming-systems-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This traditional system was initially influenced\u00a0by the need to keep and feed draught animals and the advantage of possibly producing high-value livestock products for selling. Blackburn\u00a0 (1998) reported this system to cover about 2.5 billion hectares of land, of which 1.1billion hectares is arable rain-fed cropland, 0.2 billion hectares are irrigated cropland, and 1.2 billion are grassland.\u00a0 Recently producing almost 50 percent of the world\u2019s food and over 90 percent world milk supply, it could be considered one of the important in enhancing food security and livelihoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This traditional system was initially influenced\u00a0by the need to keep and feed draught animals and the advantage of possibly producing high-value livestock products for selling. Blackburn\u00a0 (1998) reported this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/2018\/04\/30\/mixed-production-systems\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/thembelihle-collethy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}