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Soyabean response to rhizobium inoculation across sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns of variation and the role of promiscuity
Improving bacterial nitrogen fixation in grain legumes is central to sustainable intensification of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. In the case of soyabean, two main approaches have been pursued: first, promiscuous ...
Testing the GLDC scaling framework: Design, Performance, and Gaps
Accelerating the adoption of new technology – improved varieties and management practices – by smallholders remains a challenge for agricultural research and extension systems, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...
Ex-ante Evaluation of Research and Technology Options for Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
A panel of experts reviewing the CGIAR Research Program Proposal on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) recommended that the participating centers set research priorities based on rigorous yield gap analyses, ex ante ...
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 ...
Priority regions for research on dryland cereals and legumes
Dryland cereals and legumes are important crops in farming systems across the world. Yet they are frequently neglected among the priorities for international agricultural research and development, often due to lack of ...
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 ...
CRP-GLDC Annual Report 2019
The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) is an international consortium led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and implemented by CGIAR, and ...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes –Vol II. Improving cultivation of particular grain legumes
The lentil (Lens culinaris Medik. ssp. culinaris) is a short, slender annual leguminous plant
that produces a popular pulse that is widely consumed, especially in Asia. Its grain is a
vital source of protein, with a mean ...
Foresight Analysis for Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Results from the latest version of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) developed by IFPRI have been used to describe the future outlook for the CRP GLDC crops and ...
CRP-GLDC Annual Report 2018
The CRP-GLDC envisions to increase the productivity, profitability, resilience and marketability of critical and nutritious grain legume (chickpea, cowpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, lentil, soybean) and cereal (sorghum, pearl ...