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Can improved food legume varieties increase technical efficiency in crop production?
Faba bean (broad bean), field pea, and lentil are very important legumes in the highlands of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the largest producer of faba bean in SSA. In 2012/13, about 4.4 million small holder farmers planted 574,000 ...
Interna'onal Land Coali'on’s Rangeland Initiative, coordinated and technical support provided by ILRI and RECONCILE-‐Kenya
Poster of Interna'onal Land Coali'on’s Rangeland Initiative, coordinated and technical support provided by ILRI and RECONCILE-‐Kenya
Restoring Ethiopian drylands at scale
The goals of this review are to: (i) identify options with proven success and high potential for up-scaling in Ethiopian drylands, (ii) analyze factors underlying relative success in different agro-ecologies and under ...
Pastoralists Do Plan! Community-Led Land Use Planning in the Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia
This paper consolidates a set of case studies which document how pastoralists plan land and resource use in pastoral and agropastoral
areas
of Ethiopia. These case studies are drawn from the regional states of Afar, Somali, ...
Impact of improved legume varieties on technical efficiency of crop production in Ethiopia: Application of doubly-robust treatment effects model
This paper presents the impact of improved food legume varieties on technical efficiency and productivity of crop production in a farming system where mono-cropping of cereals is the norm. Data on 600 randomly selected ...
Dryland restoration scaling project: Improving the productivity of dryland agriculture
Poster of Dryland restoration scaling project: Improving the productivity of dryland agriculture
Principles of Haymaking Using Tropical Grasses and Legumes
Hay is a very popular form of forage preservation
which can be a very important source of feed in the
smallholder farming sector where veld (natural rangeland) is becoming limited. Hay is commonly made
from fresh grass but ...
The agronomy and use of Lablab purpureus in smallholder farming systems of southern Africa
Lablab purpureus, commonly known as lablab bean, is a twining
legume native to tropical and sub-tropical areas of Africa. It is
a deep-rooted, drought tolerant, summer-growing annual to
short-lived perennial. In southern ...
Forage seed production and trade as a pathway out of poverty in the smallholder sector: lessons from the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project
The major challenge to adoption of improved forage technologies in the smallholder farming sector is poor accessibility
to seed of improved cultivars. Since 2012, the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Improved ...