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Guidelines for Facilitating Women’s adoption of Improved Cereal Varieties in Sex-segregated Cultures
Women in the Global South play significant roles in farming but face inequalities in access to resources, land and extension support (3,4,5). Their roles in farming cereals, often perceived as male crops, are especially ...
Morphophysiological diversity of rhizobia nodulating pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) growing in Ethiopia
Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is an important protein source grown in several tropical and sub-tropical countries, and is considered a multi-purpose plant that is resistant to the conditions where drought and ...
Challenges to Adoption of Improved Legume Varieties: A Gendered Perspective
Limited availability and access to seeds of improved varieties are often blamed for the low adoption of legume-based rotations. In this paper, we use a case study of chickpea and lentil production in Ethiopia and a gendered ...
GIS-Based multi-criteria land suitability mapping for scaling faba bean varieties in Ethiopia
Successful scaling of agricultural technology requires a spatial explicit framework for targeting the right variety at the right place. This entails a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) approach, using a set of determining ...
Achieving Food Security and Reducing Poverty through Land Restoration
Land restoration and avoiding further degradation can be a key pathway to achieving food security and exiting poverty for some of the most vulnerable people living in Africa’s drylands. Achieving the UN’s SDGs requires ...
CRP-GLDC Annual Report 2021
The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) is an international consortium led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and implemented by CGIAR, and ...
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region.
Assessing the Competitiveness of Smallholders Chickpea Production in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia
Chickpea is an important food legume in Ethiopia which provides sources of livelihood for millions of smallholder farmers. Currently, it has become an important high value crop that promotes commercialization. This study ...
Lentils, Traits and Adoption in Ethiopia
Dina Najjar, Gender Scientist, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Protecting Ethiopian Lentil Crops Initiation Workshop, October 11-13, 2021
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A Gender Analysis of the Challenges to adoption of improved lentil and chickpea varieties in Eth
Timely availability of information, inputs and credit are key to sustainable adoption of improved agricultural practices. While there are advantages in using different technology dissemination strategies to reach different ...