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From best fit technologies to best fit scaling: incorporating and evaluating factors affecting the adoption of grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is characterised by diverse and heterogeneous environments
(World Bank, 2009), languages, cultures, institutions and histories (Hopkins, 2009)
and farming systems (Giller et al., 2011b; Tittonell et al., ...
Opportunities for sustainable legume business development: an experience from the public-private partnership progresses in south Eastern Ethiopia.
Chickpea is widely grown food grain legume in rotation with cereals and is an important source of food and income. The chickpea value chain comprise of different actors at different functional levels. Evidence indicates ...
Accelerating Knowledge Sharing on Global Dryland Solutions For systems transformation
Accelerating knowledge sharing across the global drylands on solutions for dryland agriculture properly described for outscaling (conditions for success, readiness for scaling) and assessed for multiple benefits
Screening cowpea germplasm (cultivated and wild relatives) for aphid resistance
A total set of 376 entries including 374 mini-core accessions, 1 resistant check (TVu801) and 1 susceptible check (TVx 3236) were evaluated in screening cages at Kano and screen house at Cotonou for resistance to cowpea ...
Geographic priorities for research and development on dryland cereals and legumes (DCL)
Maps, geography and spatial
analysis are increasingly important
for developing R&D programs,
priority setting, monitoring,
impacts assessment and reporting.
• But the community of researchers
working on this topics has ...
Pest Management in Grain Legumes: Potential and Limitations
Grain legumes such as chickpea, pigeonpea, cowpea, field pea , lentil, ,
and Phaseolus beans are the principal source of dietary protein among vegetarians,
and are an integral part of daily diet in several forms worldwide. ...
Assessment of legume utilization among smallholder farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria
Popoola, I., Maziya-Dixon, B., Katengwa, S., Sanginga, J., Woomer, P., Sangodele, E. & Kanampiu, F. (2016). Assessment of legume utilization among smallholder farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda ...
Poor farmers - poor yields: socio-economic, soil fertility and crop management indicators affecting climbing bean productivity in northern Rwanda
Climbing bean is the key staple legume crop in the highlands of East and Central Africa. We assessed the impact of interactions between soil fertility characteristics, crop management and socio-economic factors, such as ...
Understanding variability in soybean yield and response to P-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants on farmers' fields in northern Nigeria
Soybean yields could benefit from the use of improved varieties, phosphate-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants. In this study, we evaluated the results of widespread testing of promiscuous soybean varieties with four ...
Public-private partnerships for sustainable supply of legume inputs in Northern Ghana
djeiNsiah, S., Doe, E., Bars, E., AmpaduBoakye, T. & Kanampiu, F. (2016). Publicprivate partnerships for sustainable supply of legume
inputs in Northern Ghana. Poster: N2Africa Putting nitrogen fixation to work for ...