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Gender and access to cowpea innovations in West Africa: a review of some critical issues
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2012)Cowpea provides food and incomes to farm households including women farmers who make and sell snack foods from this nutritious legume in West Africa. Gender roles are important in cowpea value chains. The main constraints ... -
Participatory cowpea development for poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods in west Africa: case of PRONAF (Projet Niebe pour l'Afrique)- a multipartners, regional, and collaborative project
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2012)Cowpea has the potential to make a significant contribution to food and nutritional security and poverty reduction in West and Central Africa. Constraints to be addressed include poor access to inputs including seeds, pest ... -
Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2012)Over the past several decades, researchers and extension agents have described methods that cowpea farmers can use to reduce insect damage to the cowpea crop in the field and in storage. Some of these methods, which are ... -
Africa RISING east and southern Africa project overview
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Effect of methods of processing on raw and intrinsic quality of Sidama and YirgaCheffee coffee types
(Ethiopian Coffee Science Society, 2019)Coffee quality can be affected by variety, climate and soil factors, field management practices and post-harvest handling and processing techniques. Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is an economically important crop, ... -
Challenges, opportunities and strategy for cassava subsector development in Nigeria
(2003)Nigeria has substantial economic potential in its agricultural sector. However, despite the importance of agriculture in terms of employment creation, its potential for contributing to economic growth is far from being ... -
Cassava virus diseases in Africa
(2003)Cassava plays a key role in the food security of sub-Saharan Africa, but as a vegetatively propagated crop, it is particularly vulnerable to the effects of virus diseases and these therefore represent a major threat to the ... -
Evaluation de nouvelles varieties digname en Cote dIvoire: bilan de trois annees dexperience avec des genotypes ameliores par lIITA
(2003)Assessment of new yam varieties in Côte d’Ivoire : results of three experiments years with improved genotypes by IITA The most important food crop in the Ivory Coast, yam, is cultivated in a traditional system with low ... -
Amelioration de la production de ligname a travers la fertilisation minerale en zone de savene de Cote dIvoire
(2003)Improving yam production by mineral fertilisation in the savanna zone of Cote d’Ivoire. Côte d’Ivoire is the second producer of yam after Nigeria with 2.8 millions tons produced per year. Though its farmers are still looking ... -
Explaining the Failure in Agricultural production in subSaharan Africa
(2003)This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 10 Subsaharan countries. The relative performance of agricultural sector was gauged using data envelopment analysis. From a panel data set of the 10 countries ... -
Advances in yam and cassava nematology research at IITA
(2003)Progress in pest management on cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa has witnessed remarkable achievements over recent years in the management of African cassava mosaic virus, cassava mealy bug, cassava green mite and ... -
Economic gains from maize research in West and Central Africa: an overview
(2003)Agricultural research by national systems and international institutes has contributed to the increase in maize production and productivity in West and Central Africa (WCA) over the last three decades. This subregion ... -
The role of GIS in the development and targeting of maize germplasm to farmers in West and Central Africa
(2003)Maize (Zea mays L) is cultivated under a broad range of climatic conditions in West and Central Africa (WCA). For the purpose of germplasm evaluation, maize researchers in the subregion loosely stratified the diverse ... -
Plant virology in subSaharan Africa: proceedings of a conference organized by IITA, 48 June 2001
(2003)The rice yellow mottle diseases is the main virus disease found on rice in Africa. It has been reported in all major rice producing zone of sub-saharan Africa (East,West,Central and Southern Africa and Madagascar). The ... -
Use of Alternaria eichhorniae to control the invasive aquatic weed water hyacinth in Africa
(2003)Water hyacinth has been given the dubious honour by the UN of the world’s most troublesome weed. Since its introduction as an ornamental it has attained a pan- African distribution. It prevents transport, fishing, commerce, ...
