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Problem soils in cool season food legumes- Current knowledge and future prospects
Problem soils impose various stresses on plants and reduce crop yield significantly. As a
sizeable area under food legume crops falls under the problem soils, development of tolerant
varieties and appropriate agronomic ...
Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers out of poverty. The emphasis in programming often implicitly emphasizes focusing on farm ...
Conduct Participatory variety and hybrids selection trials across target agro-ecologies in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia
In singida district, variety with tied ridges had mean grain yield of 2.017 t ha-1 compared to 1.596 t ha-1 for variety without tied ridges which was a 26% yield advantage. Varieties ASARECA 24-4-1 (1.983 t ha-1) and IESV ...
Making Ragelands Secure
INDEX
2.0 RECENT EVENTS
4.0 PASTORALISTS DO PLAN!
EXPERIENCES OF MURSI LAND USE
PLANNING, SOUTH OMO ETHIOPIA
5.0 PROGRESS OF THE COMMUNITY
LAND BILL, KENYA
6.0 DEVELOPING SILVOPASTORAL
SYSTEMS FOR MORE SECURE ACCESS
TO ...
Evaluate selected hybrids (25-49) across agro-ecologies in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan and Uganda
In Kenya and Tanzania hybrids IESH 22023, IESH 28005, IESH 22009, IESH 214016 and IESH 214016 had the best grain yields (4.370-6.889 t/ha) and overall agronomy and were selected for on-farm testing. These hybrids had ...
Atlas of Land Restoration Options in East Africa and the Sahel
We created a matrix of restoration options for each country, including potential benefits of the technologies and possible constraints.