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The INI African regional nitrogen centre: challenges and opportunities in Africa
(Springer, 2020)The International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) aims at optimizing nitrogen (N) use in food and energy production, while minimizing environmental risks. In Africa, nitrogen management must address the ‘too little’ and ‘too ... -
Better-off women boosting groundnut business in Ghana
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Groundnut was one of the biggest breeding programs in Ghana in the mid-nineties, but the production declined because of many factors including the rosette disease and the fact that there was no dedicated breeder of groundnut ... -
Assessment of the current agricultural finance sector with a major focus on cocoa: bank of Ghana (BOG) policy and strategies for financing sustainable agricultural value chains
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2019) -
Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in cocoa: a case of Ghana
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2019) -
Enthusiasm of actors within the groundnut value chain sharing impact stories in Uganda
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)The role of women in traditional African homes is often considered subordinate than that of men. Women in most cases are expected to look after the household and the children and ensure food security while men, on the other ... -
Empowered communities tell their own stories from common bean production in Uganda
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Most smallholder farmers in Uganda often opt to farm the more popular crops which include coffee, plantain, cassava, sweet potatoes, and maize. Smallholder bean farming in Uganda is however overtaking the crops as farmers ... -
Guide to rice production in northern Nigeria
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Common bean value chain actors share their feeling about TL projects in Tanzania
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Apart from groundnut, Tropical Legumes I, II, and III also focused on common beans in Tanzania. In early April 2018, we visited Selian Agricultural Research Institute in Arusha, which is in the Northeast of Tanzania, and ... -
Concluding remarks: the tropical legumes projects empowered communities in a wide variety of assets
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)After 12 years of activity, the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects come to an end the year 2019. In addition to quantitative impact assessment, this publication brings to light various stakeholders’ own words about the kind ... -
Breeding climate-resilient bananas
(Springer International Publishing, 2020-02-28)The impact of global climate change is expected to have the most significant effects on small-scale farmers in subtropical and tropical regions of the world without access to irrigation where banana is grown as an important ... -
Sowing legume seeds, reaping cash: a renaissance within communities in sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)The smallholder farmers’ access to the outputs of the breeding programs’ achievements has been very weak and hence calls for effective, more coherent, and wellarticulated design of technology and seed delivery systems of ... -
Farmers’ guide to management of aflatoxins in maize and groundnuts in Africa
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2017) -
Guide to maize production in northern Nigeria
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2020) -
Cassava mosaic viruses (Geminiviridae)
(Elsevier, 2020) -
Plant resistance to Geminiviruses
(Elsevier, 2020) -
Guide sur la production du niebe en Afrique de l'Ouest
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2018) -
Guide to cowpea production in west Africa
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2018) -
Effectiveness of communication channels on level of awareness and determinants of adoption of improved common bean technologies among smallholder farmers in Tanzania
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)Increased legume productivity contributes to nutritional security as they are a source of cheap proteins. However, there is limited access to information on improved legume technologies among smallholder farmers in resource ... -
Integrated livestock feed interventions
(Africa RISING, 2019)