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Evaluation of Feed Resources in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali in West Africa
Livestock are important assets to the rural poor in developing countries but are faced with the major
challenge of marked seasonal feed availability. A study was carried out to assess existing and potential
feed resources ...
Improving seedling production for Vitex doniana
Uniform germination is one of the important agronomic requirements for successful domestication of wildharvested economic plants. In this study we investigated the effects of storage and hydration-dehydration regimes on ...
Access and use of wild agricultural biodiversity to improve household food security in West African dryland systems
We investigated the relationships between HFS and the livelihood assets in the dryland agricultural systems in Koutiala, Mali. We hypothesized that (i) the ABD rich rural households experienced low food insecurity, and ...
Reactions of Adansonia digitata L. provenances to long-term stress at seedling stage
The effects of drought stress on growth parameters and dry matter partitioning of seven provenances (six from West Africa and one from East Africa) of Adansonia digitata L. were assessed in a seedling experiment in Burkina ...
First report of root rot caused by Pythiumspp. on chickpea in South Africa
Chickpea is a relatively new crop in the NE South Africa. High incidences of plant death were observed in an experiment that was established in 2012 in Mziniti, South Africa to assess the agronomic performance of 66 elite ...
Effects of farmer managed natural regeneration on livelihoods in semi-arid West Africa
This paper used a multivalued treatment framework to assess the effects of farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) on selected outcomes among 1080 rural household farmers in the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian ecozone of ...
Place of plant genetic resources in ecological intensification and options for sustainable production by smallholder farmers in West African Sahel and dry savannas
This literature survey was conducted in the framework of the Dryland Systems CRP in 2013. This draft paper is drawn from the technical report entitled "Achigan-Dako, G. Enoch, Sogbohossou O. Deedi, Segnon C. Alcade, N’Danikou ...
Agro-morphological characterization of West and Central African pearl millet accessions
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] was domesticated in Sahelian West Africa. This highly outcrossing crop is one of the most important staple cereals in the semiarid tropics, adapted to very harsh rain-fed ...
Prevalence and distribution of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Mali, West Africa
Groundnut is a major source of livelihood for the rural poor in Mali. However, the crop is prone to preand
post-harvest aflatoxin contamination caused by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus.
Therefore, to ...
Advances in knowledge of processes in soil–tree–crop interactions in parkland systems in the West African Sahel: A review
The ‘parklands’ that form the most widespread farming systems in the Sahelian zone of West Africa are
farming systems in which annual crops are grown under scattered trees preserved from the natural
vegetation by farmers ...