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Effects of maize residue and mineral nitrogen applications on maize yield in conservation-agriculture-based cropping systems of Southern Africa
Conservation agriculture (CA) and no-till (NT)-based cropping systems could address soil degradation and fertility decline in southern Africa. A multi-location and multi-year experiment was carried out between 2008 and ...
InDel markers: An extended marker resource for molecular breeding in chickpea
Chickpea is one of the most important food legumes that holds the key to meet rising global food and nutritional demand. In order to deploy molecular breeding approaches in crop improvement programs, user friendly and cost ...
Monitoring Changes in the Cultivation of Pigeonpea and Groundnut in Malawi Using Time Series Satellite Imagery for Sustainable Food Systems
Malawi, in south-eastern Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world. Food security in the country hinges on rainfed systems in which maize and sorghum are staple cereals and groundnut and pigeonpea are now major ...
An Updated Review of Research on Heliocheilus albipunctella (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in Sahelian West Africa
In the Sahelian region of West Africa, pearl millet, which is a major subsistence food crop supporting families’
livelihoods, is regularly attacked by the millet head miner/spike worm, Heliocheilus (=Raghuva) albipunctella ...
Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption
Despite the growing attention to technology adoption in the economics literature, knowledge gaps remain regarding why some valuable technologies are rapidly adopted, while others are not. This paper contributes to our ...
Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya’s future
Capturing what drives the decision-making and aspirations of rural households, especially among the youth, will help design more effective policies and development initiatives that trigger positive, lasting change within ...
Revealing plant ideotypes amenable to increased planting density to boost the productivity in pearl millet through public-private partnership in Asia and Africa
The innovation is in trying to mimic in pearl millet, in a quicker manner, a similar increase in sowing density that has happened over a century in maize. The innovation would consist in screening and using donor parents ...
Households’ aspirations for rural development through agriculture
In sub-Saharan Africa, rural households are the focus of many development efforts and the transformation of smallholder
agriculture is one entry point for this process. Understanding farming households’ technology choices ...
Price-quality relationships in fodder trading in Niger with special regards to comaprison of cowpea and groundnut haulms with concentrates,collected shrubs and grasses
Poster presented in the Pan-African Grain legume and World Cowpea Conference. 27-Feb-4 March 2016. Livingstone, Zambia.
A recipe for success? Learning from the rapid adoption of improved chickpea varieties in Ethiopia
Many studies detail constraints deemed responsible for the limited adoption of new
technologies among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, here we
study the conditions that led to the remarkably fast ...