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What role for legumes in sustainable intensification? – case studies in Western Kenya and Northern Ghana for PROIntensAfrica
N2Africa was selected as a case study within the PROIntensAfrica initiative. In this case study, N2Africa focused on the potential role of legumes in sustainable intensification. The case study was conducted in two of the ...
Solution space for sustainable intensification in Bougouni
Poster of Solution space for sustainable intensification in Bougouni
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 ...
Farmers’ agronomic and social evaluation of cowpea technologies in Guinea Savanna zones of Ghana
Adjei-Nsiah, S., Amppiah, S.A., Ampadu-Boakye, T., Kanampiu, F. & Giller, K.E. (2016). Farmers’ agronomic and social evaluation of cowpea technologies in Guinea Savanna zones of Ghana. Poster: Sustainable grain legume ...
Poor farmers - poor yields: socio-economic, soil fertility and crop management indicators affecting climbing bean productivity in northern Rwanda
Climbing bean is the key staple legume crop in the highlands of East and Central Africa. We assessed the impact of interactions between soil fertility characteristics, crop management and socio-economic factors, such as ...
Understanding variability in soybean yield and response to P-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants on farmers' fields in northern Nigeria
Soybean yields could benefit from the use of improved varieties, phosphate-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants. In this study, we evaluated the results of widespread testing of promiscuous soybean varieties with four ...
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Agricultural intensification, extensification or stagnation in Mali's Guinea Savannah
The World Bank argued that West Africa's Guinea Savannah zone forms part of “Africa's Sleeping Giant,” where increases in agricultural production could be an engine of economic growth, through expansion of cultivated land ...