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Price quality relationships in fodder trading in Niger with special regards to comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulms with concentrates, collected shrubs and grasses
Investigations of price-quality relationships in feed and fodder marketing
can yield crucial information about economic benefits from livestock
production, specific feed demand and supply, opportunities for engaging in
feed ...
Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species
The red junglefowl Gallus gallus is the main progenitor of domestic chicken, the
commonest livestock species, outnumbering humans by an approximate ratio of six
to one. The genetic control for production traits have been ...
Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Largescale
land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land
prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are ...
The maternal origin of indigenous domestic chicken from the Middle East, the north and the horn of Africa
Indigenous domestic chicken represents a major source of protein for agricultural communities around the world. In the Middle East and Africa, they are adapted to hot dry and semi-dry areas, in contrast to their wild ...
Comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulm trading in urban and rural fodder markets in Niger
Jarial, S., Blümmel, M., Soumana, I., Ravi, D., Issa, S., Whitbread, A. and Tabo, R. 2016. Comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulm trading in urban and rural fodder markets in Niger. Presented at the Pan African Grain ...
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 ...
From best fit technologies to best fit scaling: incorporating and evaluating factors affecting the adoption of grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is characterised by diverse and heterogeneous environments
(World Bank, 2009), languages, cultures, institutions and histories (Hopkins, 2009)
and farming systems (Giller et al., 2011b; Tittonell et al., ...
Opportunities for sustainable legume business development: an experience from the public-private partnership progresses in south Eastern Ethiopia.
Chickpea is widely grown food grain legume in rotation with cereals and is an important source of food and income. The chickpea value chain comprise of different actors at different functional levels. Evidence indicates ...
Caravan 22: Review of agriculture in the dry areas
This issue of Caravan provides examples of ICARDA's work with its partners to help ensure sustainability of livelihoods for the poor in marginal areas.
Farm typology analysis and technology assessment: An application in an arid region of South Asia
The design and diffusion of context-specific technologies is centrally important in the multi-dimensional, complex farming systems in arid and semi-arid regions. This paper uses a mixed-method framework to characterize the ...