Ethiopia has a large number of species of flora and fauna in general and forest resources in particular with a significant rate of endemism. Ethiopian forest cover once was 40 per cent of the country’s land area. Reduction ...

Precision phenotyping is the evaluation of a genotype’s expression in a given environment with minimum influence of experimental error. This chapter presents the basic principles of experimental designs and lists commonly ...

This chapter focuses on the improvements in the production of barley, chickpea, faba bean, field pea and lentil in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. Information on cultivar output and adoption of these crops is also presented.

Can South Africa's world renowned constitutional socio-economic rights to access to sufficient water and food be realized by technology-driven capital-intensive economic growth, especially agricultural growth, or are there ...

The study reported in this book chapter was undertaken to evaluate technical performance of the mouldboard and Gavin ploughs against the traditional plough; to evaluate the impact of zero-tillage as against conventional ...

This chapter focuses on the adoption and turnover of cultivars of crops, such as soyabean, maize, pigeon pea, wheat, cassava, rice, potato, barley, yam, groundnut, bean, sorghum, cowpea, pearl millet, chickpea, faba bean, ...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) has a long history as a domesticated crop. It was one of the first to be adopted for cultivation and is now produced virtually worldwide (von Bothmer et al., 2003). In Ethiopia, barley is also one ...

This chapter focuses on the improved cultivar generation of various crops (maize, cassava, rice, bean, potato, cowpea, wheat, soyabean, sweet potato, yam, sorghum, groundnut, banana, chickpea, pigeon pea, barley, pearl ...

Bread wheat is one of the most staple food crops in the world and one of the most important cereals cultivated in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the largest wheat producer in sub-Saharan Africa with 1.1 million hectares (ha) of ...

Due to their naturally endowed physiological adaptation and general lower husbandry requirements, goats form an integral part of livestock production in the tropics and subtropics. According to the Ethiopian sheep and goat ...