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Improving sorghum productivity under changing climatic conditions: A modelling approach
Climate variability and change will have far reaching consequences for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Crop modelling can help inform the improvement ...
Plan Comparison Protocol: Tree Planting in Burkina Faso
Balanites aegyptiaca is a native tree species in the West African Sahel and provide food, fodder, medicine, wood for fuel, construction and other essential products (Orwa 2009, Arbonnier 2000). It belongs to the family ...
Evaluation of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes for drought stress adaptation in Ethiopia
Drought stress linked with climate changeisoneofthemajorconstraintsfacedby
common bean farmers in Africa and elsewhere. Mitigating this constraint requires the
selection of resilient varieties that withstand drought threats ...
Dry root rot (Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler): an emerging disease of chickpea – where do we stand?
Dry root rot caused by Rhizoctonia bataticola (Macrophomina phaseolina) of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is gaining importance in the changed scenario of climate when growing crop is predisposed to high temperature and ...
Creating Food Product Quality Traits in the Crop Ontology for Roots, Tubers and Bananas
RTBFoods produces lexicon of sensory properties for the food products and variables for measuring the processing techniques applied to varieties. Qualities and processing techniques names and variables were extracted into ...
Integrated soil fertility and Striga management
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the different sources of livestock manure and the rates on productivities of sorghum and millet in the Sudan savannah of Nigeria. The treatments include nine (9) different fertility ...
Durum Wheat Breeding: In the Heat of the Senegal River
Global warming may cause +4 °C temperature increases before the end of this century. Heat tolerant bred-germplasm remains the most promising method to ensure farm productivity under this scenario. A global set of 384 durum ...
Produce NS through progeny rows (2) Produce BS from NS bulk (3) Produce FS from BS
Breeder Seed is produced from NS. Rouging is done at vegetative and at the time of harvest. BS is graded and supplied. Nucleus Seed (NS) is produced from the Basic Seed constituted from the uniform progenies. Recycling ...
Landscapes of opportunity: patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa
While much has been said in recent years about the importance of engaging rural youth in subSaharan Africa’s development, the factual data about how African youth currently engage in rural economies
remain sparse. We use ...
Nutrient flow modelling for assessing the resource criticality of heterogeneous agricultural systems: A case study in Southwestern Burkina Faso
Despite the many advantages of sustainable intensification (SI), the level of adoption of SI practices in African smallholding farms is still very low, posing the need for adequate methods for monitoring farm sustainability. ...