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Biodiversity and varietal development of pulses in South Asia
South Asia (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) is the largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses with 28% and 38% share in global production and acreage. The present ...
Rice Fallow Systems for Pulse Crops Bangladesh India Nepal - Progress Report Year 1 May 2016 - Aug. 2017
The main objective is the development of testing of cropping systems and agro-technologies for improved production and productivity of lentil, lathyrus and chickpea as second crop in rice-fallows for improved food and ...
Pigeonpea breeding in eastern and southern Africa: challenges and opportunities
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan [L.] Millspaugh) is an important multipurpose grain legume crop primarily grown in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In Africa, the crop is grown for several purposes ...
Sustaining Farming Systems for Food Security and Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Farmer, industry and consumer preferred chickpea varieties identified and disseminated in 105 districts of Amhara, Oromia, SNNRP and Tigray regions. About 19 SPCs, 5 MPCs and 5 unions with membership of 11,024 (13.8% female) ...
Innovation platforms: A novel tool for improving food legume productivity and farmer’s livelihood, and enhancing food security in Morocco
Food legumes (Faba bean, lentils, chickpea and pea) are important crops that come in rotation with
cereals in the rainfed regions of Morocco where the cereal/food legume cropping system predominates.
While these crops were ...
Pulses for sustainable food and nutrition security in South Asia region
Today’s agriculture is expected to produce more than just food as we head fast towards a C-rich N-poor world. To slow down the pace, we need to include more pulses, not only in our plates but also in the planet for ecosystem ...
Morocco declaration - Pulses: solutions to food and nutrition security, agricultural sustainability and climate change adaptation
The UN International Year of Pulses 2016 provides us the opportunity to call attention to the underutilization of pulses in comparison to cereals in spite of known benefits of pulses to sustainable agricultural productivity ...
Rice Fallow Systems for Pulse Crops Bangladesh India Nepal - AWPB Year I
The overall goals is to establish a sustainable integrated pulse production system in rice fallows to enhance pulse production and farm income directly of nearly 15,000 farmers in India, Nepal and Bangladesh resulting in ...
Wheat Legume Cropping Systems - Final Completion Report
The project, Enhanced Smallholder Wheat-Legume Cropping Systems to Improve Food Security under Changing Climate in the Drylands of WANA, has been effective in its planned objectives.
The overall goal was to contribute to ...
Wheat Legume Cropping Systems WANA COFIN-ECG-56-ICARDA Progress Report 2013-2014 Cropping Season
GOAL (Impact): Enhanced food and nutritional security, improved livelihoods of rural communities and agricultural sector growth in the countries of WANA in the face of increasing climatic variability and change.
PURPOSE ...