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Soil and Water Conservation
This presentation sheds light on: Water conservation and water harvesting , Soil conservation and erosion control, Improved farming practices and raised bed farming, Participatory approaches to promote adoption of SLM by ...
Towards Identifying Context-Specific Soil and Water Conservation Practices and Water Harvesting Systems for the Sanannah Belt of Nothern Nigeria: A Matrix of Options
In the savannah belt of Northern Nigeria, ICARDA is supporting the CASP Programme (Climate Change Adaptation and Agribusiness Support of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nigeria) in identifying ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising Climate-Smart Practice for Dryland Agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of
limited amounts of water to essentially
rainfed crops to improve and stabilize
yields when rainfall fails to provide
sufficient moisture for normal plant
growth - is an effective ...
Elaboration of Livestock R&D Scenarios and Assessment of the Impact of Alternative Investment Scenarios on Employment Generation: A Methodological Framework
As agriculture is the largest employment sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, and as the average contribution of agriculture to GDP is more than 17% (OECD/FAO, 2016; World Bank, 2017), the agricultural employment growth can be a ...
Response of grain legumes to phosphorus application in the guinea savanna agro-ecological zones of Ghana
Grain legumes (cowpea, peanut, and soybean) play important roles in household food and income security in smallholder farming systems in the Guinea Savanna agro-ecological zones of Ghana. However, yields are low, rarely ...
On-farm evaluation and determination of sources of variability of soybean response to Bradyrhizobium inoculation and phosphorus fertilizer in northern Ghana
Soybean yields on smallholder farms in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) are far below the potential yield thus creating a huge yield gap. Interventions are thus needed to bridge this yield gap and ascertain the factors influencing ...
Production Technology of High Quality Cassava Peel® Mash Training
The demand maize is an important component of feed in Nigeria’s expanding poultry sector is
expected to increase. At the same time vast quantities of cassava peels produced during cassava
processing represent a serious ...
Achieving Food Security and Reducing Poverty through Land Restoration
Land restoration and avoiding further degradation can be a key pathway to achieving food security and exiting poverty for some of the most vulnerable people living in Africa’s drylands. Achieving the UN’s SDGs requires ...