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Innovation platforms as vehicle to strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to innovate for improved livelihoods in drylands in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
Agriculture is the engine for poverty reduction and economic development in the developing nations. The sector employs over 50% of the population in South Asia (SA) and Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and contributes significantly ...
Africa Rising Mali report on Year 1 (2012)
Presentation of Africa Rising Mali report on Year 1 (2012)
Velvetbean (Mucuna Pruriens) Production in Southern Africa
Velvet bean is a high yielding leguminous forage crop that is high in nitrogen (N)/crude
protein content. It is usually sown as an N-fixing ley crop or as a green manure crop to
improve soil fertility. In the sub-humid ...
Assessing crop model improvements through comparison of sorghum (sorghum bicolor L. moench) simulation models: A case study of West African varieties
Better defining niches for the photoperiod sensitive sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) varieties ofWest Africa into the local cropping system might help to improve the resilience of food production in theregion. In ...
Implementation report on Cropping system intensification and resilience building
Cropping system intensification and resilience building
Suitable interventions in smallholder agriculture through systems analysis identified
International training Workshop video interviews on Modern Approaches in Systems Analysis of Resource Poor Farming Systems with a Focus on Value Chains for Market-led Innovation.
Gender preferred crops with laboratory evidence on fodder quality traits
A summary report on gender preferred local varieties and evidence from laboratories on Iron and zinc content on grains and fodder quality traits.
A SSR kit to study genetic diversity in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
A chickpea simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker reference kit has been developed based on the
genotyping of the global chickpea composite collection (3,000 accessions) with 35 SSR markers.
The kit consists of three pools ...
Farm typology specific intensification and diveriscation options including agro-silvi-horticulture with traditional rainwater harvesting systems
Based on farm typology analysis integrated farming system interventions were prioritized in participatory mode. A total six large agri horti units has been established and linked with RWHS (Rain water harvesting structures) ...
Gender preferred dual purpose crops with laboratory evidence
Working document on gender preference on crops along with evidence from laboratories for food-feed traits.