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Farming household types and their characterization in complex crop-livestock smallholder agricultural systems for contextual analysis and extension intervention: case of Riviridzi Catchment in Ntcheu
Typology of farming units (households and farms) is deemed essential for targeted research and development programs. We employ the sustainable livelihood framework to collect integrated dataset for household, landscape and ...
Drought tolerant bean varieties offer hope to smallholder farmers in Malawi
The 2014/15 season was a nightmare in Malawi as the country faced floods at
the beginning of the season and then terminal drought. Most farmers lost
property and crops through flooding and water lodging while surviving ...
Performance of climbing variety DC80-263
The present work is focused on the performance of bush bean variety under different management practices. Breeding researchers in Malawi have not yet released any climbing bean variety. However, under the McKnight project ...
Narrowing Common Bean Yield Gap and Improving Productivity Using Organic Soil Amendments within Smallholder Farming Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
Main effects of chicken manure treatment on bean yield in sole and maize intercrop cropping systems.
Agricultural systems dynamics framework for the Ntcheu-Changara Transect
Most of the background material and initial frameworks for the present work have been extracted from the discussions among CGIAR sister institutions, implementing partners and stakeholders during the systems and meta-analysis ...
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 ...
Spatial Variation in Tree Density and Estimated Aboveground Carbon Stocks in Southern Africa
Variability in woody plant species, vegetation assemblages and anthropogenic activities derails the efforts to have common approaches for estimating biomass and carbon stocks in Africa. In order to suggest management ...
Pest risk analysis for Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum
Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) is the causative pathogen for banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW). Commonly known as Xanthomonas wilt, it was reported first in Ethiopia on enset and later observed on banana in Uganda, ...
Evidence for genotypic differences among elite lines of common bean in the ability to remobilize photosynthate to increase yield under drought
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important food legume for human consumption. Drought stress is the major abiotic stress limitation of bean yields in smallholder farming systems worldwide. The current work ...
Estimation of phenotypic variability in symbiotic nitrogen fixation ability of common bean under drought stress using 15N natural abundance in grain
tCommon bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important food legume, cultivated by small farmers andis usually exposed to unfavorable conditions with minimum use of inputs. Drought and low soil fertility,especially ...