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Renforcement de capacités en Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) : Bonnes pratiques et exemples d’illustration dans le cadre des visites de terrain au Niger by Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Zakari, Sissou, Moussa, Abdou, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Adjogboto, André, Orou Barre Fousseni, Imorou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Dans le cadre de la série de renforcement de capacités des acteurs aux niveaux national et local sur l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans cinq pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, et Togo), des visites de terrains ont été organisées pour illustrer l’apprentissage théorique en salle avec des exemples pratiques sur le terrain dans chaque pays. …”
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A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix for Uganda by Thurlow, James

“…The results of the Uganda case study is published in Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; and Fan, Shenggen. 2012. Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies. …”
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Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamics by Ahmed, Kazi Farzan, Wang, Guiling, You, Liangzhi, Anyah, Richard, Zhang, Chuanrong, Burnicki, Amy

“…As a result, the transient approach projects a generally faster future expansion of cropland, with the largest differences over Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, and Togo. Despite the relative large differences between the two approaches in projecting land cover changes associated with cropland expansion, the projected future climate changes are fairly similar. …”
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Land tenurial systems and the adoption of Mucuna planted fallow in the derived savannas of West Africa by Manyong, Victor M., Houndékon, Victorin A.

“…In 1987, an improved resource management system that incorporates velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis) to address soil fertility and weed (Imperata cylindrica) infestation was introduced to the small-scale farmers in a densely populated area of the derived savannas in Benin Republic (West Africa). Six years later, an adoption study was conducted to assess factors driving the adoption process. …”
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Synergistic effects of maize-pigeon pea intercropping and low-dose fertilization on fall armyworm control by Zanzana, K., Sinzogan, A., Tepa-Yotto, G., Dannon, E.A., Toffa, J., Modibo, K.A., Goergen, G., Tamo, M.

“…A field experiment was conducted at IITA, Benin station using a complete randomized block design with three replicates. …”
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Gender capacitation of extension and rural advisory services in West and Central Africa: the learning journey and outcomes by Maiga, Mariame, Gebremedhin, Bethel, Kpadonou, G Esaie, Ganyo, Komla Kyky, Dieng, Fatou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Lamien, Nieyidouba, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Main modules covered are (i) basic concepts in gender and agricultural extension services, (ii) methods and tools for conducting gender analysis in extension planning and (iii) approaches for mainstreaming gender in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services. 23 participants (with 61% women) from Benin, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo who are directors or department heads of agricultural advisory and extension services from were capacitated and went back home with the promise to extend this knowledge to their pairs. …”
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Calotropis procera with emphasis on its use as a milk coagulating agent. A review by Mohamed-Saleem, M.A., O'Connor, C.B.

“…There is a strong need to find cheap, safe and easily available milk coagulating agents for use under such production systems the tropical plant Calotropis procera (C. procera) has been traditionally used as a milk coagulant in some countries, e.g. Benin, Nigeria. This review highlights work on C. procera regarding its multifunctional use in human medicine and special emphasis is given to the milk coagulating properties of C. procera in the cheesemaking process.…”
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Nutrient recycling from organic wastes through viable business models in peri-urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa by Danso, George K., Drechsel, Pay

“…Experiences of existing compost stations from Nigeria, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo were taken into consideration to formulate the research framework. …”
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A single mutation in the GSTe2 gene allows tracking of metabolically based insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector by Riveron, J., Yunta, C., Ibrahim, S., Djouaka, R.F., Irving, H., Menze, B., Ismail, H., Hemingway, J., Ranson, H., Albert, A., Wondji, C.S.

“…Genome-widetranscription analysis revealed that GSTe2 was the most over-expressed detoxification gene in DDT and permethrinresistantmosquitoes from Benin. Transgenic expression of GSTe2 in Drosophila melanogaster demonstrated thatover-transcription of this gene alone confers DDT resistance and cross-resistance to pyrethroids. …”
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Mixplanting pubescent and glabrous cassava affects abundance of Typhlodromalus aripo and its prey mite Mononychellus tanajoa by Onzo, A., Hanna, R., Toko, M.

“…The study was conductedin a cassava field in Benin, West Africa. The experiments confirmed thatT. aripoeffectively suppressesM. tanajoapopulations on both cultivarsand showed, in the no-predator-exclusion experiments, that cultivar com-binations have significant effects onM. tanajoaandT. aripodensities.Indeed,T. aripoload on the non-preferred cultivar was lowest in subplotswhere the proportion ofT. aripo-preferred cultivar was also low, while,and as expected,M. tanajoaload on the non-preferred cultivar showeddecreasing trends with increasingT. aripodensities. …”
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DIVECOSYS: Bringing together researchers to design ecologicallybased pest management for smallscale farming systems in West Africa by Brevault, T., Renou, A., Vayssières, Jean-François, Amadji, G., Assogba-Komlan, F., Diallo, M.D., Bon, H. de, Diarra, K., Hamadoun, A., Huat, J., Marnotte, P., Menozzi, P., Prudent, P., Rey, J., Sall, D., Silvie, P., Simon, S., Sinzogan, A.A.C., Soti, V., Tamo, Manuele, Clouvel, P.

“…From Northern Senegal to Southern Benin, the research group explores a wide range of ecoregions and socio-ecological contexts, including stakeholders and their objectives, land use and agricultural practices, and management of biodiversity for enhancing biological control. …”
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DNA Barcoding to Improve the Taxonomy of the Afrotropical Hoverflies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) by Jordaens, K., Goergen, Georg E., Virgilio, M., Backeljau, B., Vokaer, A., Meyer, M. de

“…In order to assist in their identification, and to improve the taxonomy of this group, we constructed a reference dataset of 513 COI barcodes of 90 of the more common nominal species from Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria (W Africa) and added ten publically available COI barcodes from nine nominal Afrotropical species to this (total: 523 COI barcodes; 98 nominal species; 26 genera). …”
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Interactions between the predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo and the entomopathogenic fungus Neozygites tanajoae and consequences for the suppression of their shared prey/host Mono... by Agboton, B., Hanna, R., Onzo, A., Vidal, S., Tiedemann, A. von

“…The predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo and the entomopathogenic fungus Neozygites tanajoae, both introduced from Brazil for control of the cassava green mite (CGM) Mononychellus tanajoa, now co-occur in cassava fields in Benin. However, studies on interactions between these two natural enemies and how they might affect CGM biological control are lacking. …”
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Assessing nontarget effects and host feeding of the exotic parasitoid Apanteles taragamae, a potential biological control agent of the cowpea pod borer Maruca vitrata by Dannou, E.A., Tamò, Manuele, Huis, A. van, Dicke, M.

“…Apanteles taragamae Viereck is a larval parasitoid introduced in Benin for classical biological control of the cowpea pod borer Maruca vitrata Fabricius. …”
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Re-evaluation of Yam Mosaic Virus (YMV) detection methods by Eni, A., Hughes, J., Asiedu, Robert, Rey, M.

“…In the present study, eighteen previously tested YMV positive leaf samples from Benin and Ghana were re-tested using TAS-ELISA, Protein A-sandwich (PAS) ELISA and IC-RT-PCR. …”
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Cassava value chain development in West Africa: success stories by Sanni, Lateef O., Onadipe, O.O., Alenkhe, E.B., Ilona, Paul, Davis-Mussagy, M., Dixon, Alfred G.O.

“…The initiative of cassava value chain in West Africa has provided sustainable opportunity for transferring best bet agronomic, processing and marketing practices to less privileged small holder enterprises in Nigeria, Benin and Sierra Leone. This project which started 2008, sponsored by Common Fund for Commodities, supervised by FAO and implemented by IITA has been an avenue to improve key players of cassava enterprise in the selected countries to boost their output qualitatively and quantitatively. …”
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Effectiveness of native West African arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in protecting vegetable crops against root-knot nematodes by Affokpon, A., Coyne, Danny L., Lawouin, L., Tossou, C., Agbede, R.D., Coosemans, J.

“…Twenty strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), native to West Africa, and three commercial AMF, were evaluated for their protective effect against root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp., in pots and field experiments in Benin. In pots, these strains were assessed in sterilized soil following inoculation of nematodes and in nonsterilized soil naturally infested with nematodes using tomato. …”
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Combining ability of maize inbred lines containing genes from Zea diploperennis for resistance to Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth by Yallou, C.G., Menkir, A., Adetimirin, Victor O., Kling, J.G.

“…Forty-fivediallel crosses of 10 inbred lines were evaluated in an alpha-latticedesign with and without artificialStrigainfestation at two locationseach in the Republic of Benin and Nigeria for 3 years. Results ofanalyses showed that only general combining ability (GCA) meansquare was significant (P¼0.01) for number of emergedStrigaplants(NESPP), while both GCA and specific combining ability (SCA) meansquares were significant for host damage score (HDS) and grain yieldunderStrigainfestation. …”
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Registration of Strigaresistant and Droughttolerant tropical early maize populations TZEW Pop DT STR C4 and TZEY Pop DT STR C4 by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Yallou, C.G.

“…In multilocation trials in Benin Republic and Nigeria, 2006 and 2007, TZE-W Pop STR C4 outyielded the Striga-susceptible check TZE Comp. 4 by 44% under Striga infestation and 12% when noninfested. …”
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Impediments to new improved maize variety testing and release in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa by Setimela, P.S., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Mwangi, W.

“…A survey was conducted on the varietaltesting and release systems in 14 selected countries (Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) in SSA. …”
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