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Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The project website is designed to operate through bringing key partners from the public and private sectors, across research, extension, market, and governance institutions to work together in an iterative co-learning ...
Parklands for buffering climate risk and sustaining agricultural production in the Sahel of West Africa
In the Sahelian zone of West Africa, crops grown under a
discontinuous cover of scattered trees dominate many
landscapes and constitute the so-called parklands. These
systems reflect the ecological knowledge of the farmers ...
What do we really know about the impacts of improved grain legumes and dryland cereals? A critical review of 18 impact studies
Improved grain legume and dryland cereal (GLDC) varieties hold potential to intensify
smallholder agriculture and improve livelihoods in semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa
and South Asia. To assess the empirical ...
Agricultural Research e-Seeker (AReS): State of the art visualizer for DSpace repositories
The Agricultural Research e-Seeker (AReS):
• Provides comparable and telling figures, metrics and graphics on
any information product harvested
• Allows the user to customize the research through the user friendly
Interdependent ...
The development of baseline datasets, indicator selection and analytics to assess the impact of investment for IGAD member states
The activities detailed in this report form part of the work necessary to provide
a foundation upon which to develop these tools. In addition to providing the
IGAD member states with baseline datasets and appropriate ...
Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rural areas. But now cities are attracting its gaze.
There are two compelling reasons for this shift. First, urban dwellers in ...
Régénération des arbres et amélioration des moyens de subsistance des petites exploitations agricoles en zone semi-aride dans l’Ouest du Burkina Faso
Dans un contexte marqué par les changements climatiques et une forte croissance démographique, les petites exploitations agricoles en Afrique subsaharienne restent confrontées au défi d’une production alimentaire suffisante ...
Maize–mucuna rotation: An alternative technology to improve water productivity in smallholder farming systems
Rain-fed crop production systems in the semi-arid tropics of Zimbabwe are characterized by low water productivity (WP), which is partly attributed to inherent low soil fertility, and further exacerbated by continuous ...
W3/Bilateral Projects 2020
List of W3 and Bilateral projects mapped to CRP-GLDC in 2020.