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    • Weaving gender into sustainable intensification interventions 

      Fischer, G. (CAB International, 2022-05)
      Sustainable intensification (SI) is understood as increasing productivity without causing harm to the environment. SI can be achieved by introducing more or different inputs (e.g., new knowledge and skills, labor, chemicals, and machinery); a change to higher-yielding crops or varieties, and more productive livestock breeds; a conversion to more productive farming systems (e.g., through irrigation); or a combination of these. This chapter introduces gender concepts in agricultural development and ...

    • Soil and water conservation for climate-resilient agriculture 

      Kizito, F.; Chikowo, R.; Kimaro, A.A.; Swai, E. (CAB International, 2022-05)
      This chapter describes soil and water conservation measures for climate-resilient agriculture. It presents three interventions that can be used separately or in combination, depending on the context of the region: (1) integrating strips of forage grasses and legumes; (2) rainwater harvesting through tied ridges and ripping techniques; (3) constructing banks and ditches as part of an agroforestry system. The description of each technology, its benefits and application are discussed.

    • Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of Ijaiye Agribusiness Industrial Hub (IAIH) project 

      Adeyemi, A.L.; Luqman, A.A.; Akande, A. (Agroinfotech Consulting Limited, 2022)

    • Processing and utilization of grain legumes: a recipe book for urban and rural households 

      Nkuba, D.E.M.; Baijukya, F.; Nyonyani, H.; Omari, M.; Njuguna, C. (IInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2022)

    • Turning waste to wealth: harnessing the potential of cassava peels for nutritious animal feed 

      Okike, I.; Wigboldus, S.; Samireddypalle, A.; Naziri, D.; Adesehinwa, A.O.K.; Adejoh, V.A.; Amole, T.; Bordoloi, S.; Kulakow, P. (Springer, 2022)
      In Nigeria, processing cassava for food and industry yields around 15 million tons of wet peels annually. These peels are usually dumped near processing centres to rot or dry enough to be burned. Rotting heaps release methane into the air and a stinking effluent that pollutes nearby streams and underground water, while burning produces clouds of acrid smoke. However, when properly dried, peels can be an ingredient in animal feed. Previous attempts over two decades to use peels in animal feed ...

    • Building demand-led and gender-responsive breeding programs 

      Polar, V.; Teeken, B.; Mwende, J.; Marimo, P.; Tufan, H.A.; Ashby, J.A.; Cole, S.M.; Mayanja, S.; Okello, J.J.; Kulakow, P.; Thiele, G. (Springer, 2022)
      Gender-responsive breeding is a new approach to making sure modern breeding takes advantage of opportunities to improve gender equality in agriculture. Conventional research on the acceptability of modern varieties has scarcely addressed gender differences during adoption studies. Gender-responsive breeding starts from a different premise that adoption and social impact will be enhanced if gender is addressed at early stages of variety design and priority setting in breeding. However, until recently, ...

    • Estimate App for yam anthracnose disease phenotyping: user guide 

      Kolade, O.; Kumar, P.L. (IInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2021)

    • A practical perspective on One CGIAR. Lessons from 15 years of CIALCA agricultural research for development consortium work in Central Africa 

      Schut, M.; Remans, R.; Birachi, E.; Blomme, G.; Craenen, K.; Delvaux, B.; Dercon, G.; Ekesa, B.; Kagabo, D.; Bacishoga, M.K.; Kantengwa, S.; Karangwa, P.; Kintche, K.; Manners, R.; Mapatano, S.; Merckx, R.; Muchunguzi, P.; Nduwumuremyi, A.; Niyongere, C.; Nabahungu, N.L.; Bagula, E.; Ocimati, W.; Pypers, P.; Rietveld, A.; Swennen, R.; Taulya, G.; Vandamme, E.; Zozo, R.; van Asten, P.; Vanlauwe, B. (2021-06)
      This perspective paper complements the Special Issue, by taking the five Challenges and Recommendations to One CGIAR as a starting point, and grounds those recommendations in the 15 years of AR4D practice of the Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA). CIALCA is a longstanding consortium of CGIAR centres and regional and national research and development partners that aims to accelerate the impact of agricultural research for sustainable development and ...

    • Examining choice to advance gender equality in breeding research 

      Polar, V.; Mohan, R.R.; McDougall, C.; Teeken, B.; Mulema, A.A.; Marimo, P.; Yila, J. (International Food Policy Research Institute, 2021)

    • Microbial biotechnology in crop protection 

      Kaushal, M.; Prasad, R. (Springer International Publishing, 2021)

    • Next-generation plant health management supported by science-based agroecological principles 

      Tamo, M.; Chikoye, D. (Agropolis International, 2021)

    • Population genomics of yams: evolution and domestication of Dioscorea species 

      Sugihara, Y.; Kudoh, A.; Oli, M.T.; Takagi, H.; Natsume, S.; Shimizu, M.; Abe, A.; Asiedu, R.; Asfaw, A.; Adebola, P.O.; Terauchi, R. (Springer, 2021)
      Yam is a collective name of tuber crops belonging to the genus Dioscorea. Yam is important not only as a staple food crop but also as an integral component of society and culture of the millions of people who depend on it. However, due to its regional importance, yam has long been regarded as an “orphan crop” lacking a due global attention. Although this perception is changing with recent advances in genomics technologies, domestication processes of most yam species are still ambiguous. This is ...

    • Synergies and tradeoffs between crop diversity, nutritional yield and farm income in the central Africa Great Lakes Region 

      Manners, R.; Remans, R. (Agropolis International, 2021-09)

    • CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing of banana 

      Tripathi, L.; Ntui, V.O.; Tripathi, J.N. (Springer, 2020)
      Genome editing is an emerging powerful new breeding tool, which can be applied for genetic improvement of banana for important agronomic traits such as resistance to biotic stresses, adaptation to climate change, and high yielding. Banana is an important staple food and cash crop, feeding millions of people in tropical and subtropical countries. Recently, CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing system has been established for banana in a few laboratories. Here, we describe the procedures for generation ...

    • The forest-based farming system: highly diverse, annual and perennial systems under threat 

      Hauser, S.; Norgrove, L.; Tollens, E.; Nolte, C.; Robiglio, V.; Gockowski, J. (Routledge, 2019)
      African forest-based farming systems (FBFS) are the starting point for most humid zone farming systems; they exist only at low population densities and, depending on population growth, are a relatively short transition phase into more sedentary systems with higher levels of specialization. FBFS provide a wide range of food and non-food products for many of which no alternative sources exist. FBFS farmers are highly food secure yet poorly connected to markets and service providers, thus severely ...

    • The tricot citizen science approach applied to on-farm variety evaluation: methodological progress and perspectives 

      van Etten, J.; Abidin, E.; Arnaud, D.; Brown, E.; Carey, E.; Laporte, M.-L.; López-Noriega, I.; Madriz, B.; Manners, R.; Ortiz-Crespo, B.; Quirós, C.; de Sousa, K.; Teeken, B.; Tufan, H.A.; Ulzen, J.; Valle-Soto, J. (International Potato Center, 2020-12)
      Tricot (triadic comparisons of technologies) is a citizen science approach for testing technology options in their use environments, which is being applied to on-farm testing of crop varieties. Over the last years, important progress has been made on the tricot methodology of which an overview is given. Trial dimensions depend on several factors but tricot implies that plot size is as small as possible to include farmers with small plots (yet avoiding excessive interplot competition) while many ...

    • Critical slope length for soil loss mitigation in maize-bean cropping systems in SW Kenya 

      Koomson, E.; Muoni, T.; Marohn, C.; Nziguheba, G.; Öborn, I.; Cadisch, G. (2020)
      Soil erosion and land fragmentation threaten agricultural production of sub-Saharan African highlands. At our study site in Western Kenya, farm size is mostly < 2 ha, laid out in narrow strips in slope direction and ploughed downhill. Soil conservation measures like hedgerows and green manures can reduce effective slope length for erosion, but compete with crops for space and labour. Knowledge of critical slope length can minimise interventions and trade–offs. Hence, a maize–bean intercrop (MzBn) ...

    • Rural appraisal on the use of Paraquat in Nigeria 

      Udensi, U.E.; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2020)

    • Status of Paraquat in Nigeria: why a ban is necessary 

      Weller, S.; Riches, C.; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2020)

    • The root and tuber crop farming system: diversity, complexity and productivity potential 

      Adjei-Nsiah, S.; Asumugha, G.; Njukwe, E.; Akoroda, M. (Routledge, 2020)
      The root and tuber crop farming system occurs in west and central Africa, bounded on the southern, wetter side by the tree crop farming system and on the northern, drier side by the cereal-root crop mixed farming system. The root and tuber crop farming system occupies an estimated 236 million ha and has an estimated human population of 112 million, of whom over 50 per cent live in rural areas. Poverty is relatively high with about half the rural population earning less than US$1.25 per day. The ...