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Taking Profit from the Growing Use of Mobile Phone in Benin: A Contingent Valuation Approach for Market and Quality Information Access
An information systems-adapted Contingent Valuation survey was used to assess smallholder
farmers’ perceptions and the premium they are willing to pay (WTP) to get mobile phonebased
information on market prices and product ...
A brief introduction on data curation process
The presentation explains the importance of dataset curation from a research point of view, discussing the principles and protocols adopted by ICARDA inside "The General Dataset Curation Guide".
Mise en place des Centres de Ressources Ruraux: Astuces et Défis
Ce document est la présentation du Mise en place des Centres de Ressources Ruraux: Astuces et Défis, à Formation sur les Centres
de Ressources Ruraux, Mopti, 20 - 21 Avril 2015.
Utilization of actinomycetes having broad-spectrum of plant growth promoting and biocontrol traits in chickpea, sorghum and rice
Plant pathogens such as Sclerotium rolfsii (causes collar rot), Fusarium oxysporum (causes wilt) and Macrophomina phaseolina (causes charcoal rot/dry root rot) have a broad host range, affecting several agriculturally ...
Are pest regulation and erosion alleviation services conflicting orsynergistic? Lessons from Sahel pearl millet
tFrom 2010 to 2011 in Niger, the effects of a wind erosion-alleviating practice, i.e. mulching pearl milletfields with crop residue, on populations of and damage induced by millet stem borer (MSB), head miner(MHM), and ...
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Addressing dry season feeding challenges in Mali by Mobile Choppers
Key research activities: Mechanized power and its role in feeding both humans and animals more efficiently have long been neglected
in West African agriculture. ICRISAT along with its partners are taking corrective action. ...
“Faidherbia-Flux”, an open observatory for GHG balance and C stocks in a semi-arid agro-sylvo-pastoral system (Senegal)
The ecosystem services provided by agro-silvo-pastoral systems are complex to assess or model, owing to high spatial and temporal heterogeneities.
In 2018, we set up a new long-term observatory , open to collaboration, for ...
Evaluation of heat tolerant chickpea lines for grain yield and other adaptive features under optimal and stress conditions
Eighteen chickpea (Cicerarietinum L.) germplasms (with the standard and local checks) and 2 planting dates were laid on RCBD with three replication in order to be evaluated for grain yield and other adaptive traits. The ...