Search Results - "Nigeria"

Strengthening capacity for accessing and disseminating information for policy research by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In spite of its oil wealth, poverty plagues Nigeria. The Federal Government of Nigeria has recognized that improved agricultural performance is critical to poverty reduction, since the majority of the nation’s poor depend on agriculture for their livelihood. …”
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Regeneration and genetic transformation in cowpea by Machuka, J., Adesoye, A., Obembe, O.O.

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Five years of research on improved fallow in the semiarid highlands of Rwanda by Balasubramanian, V., Sekayange, L.

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Plant germplasm collecting missions carried out from Mar 1987 to January 1989 in six African countries by Padulosi, S.

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Biochemical seed analysis in relation to bruchid resistance by Piergiovanni, A.R., Della Gatta, C.D., Singh, B.B., Singh, S.R., Ng, N.Q., Perrino, P.

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Preexisting phenols and resistance to aphid in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) by Lattanzio, V., Linsalata, V., Maruca, G., Marullo, R., Singh, B.B., Singh, S.R., Perrino, P.

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Breeding cassava and sweet potato for pest and disease resistance in Africa by Hahn, S.K., Caveness, F.E., Lema, K.M., Theberge, R.L.

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Evaluating the risk of climate change-induced aflatoxin contamination in groundnuts and maize: Result of modeling analyses in six countries by Thomas, Timothy S., Robertson, Richard D., Boote, Kenneth J.

“…This policy note summarizes research that assessed the likely impact of climate change on aflatoxin contamination in groundnuts (in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria) and in maize (in Burkina Faso, Honduras, Guatemala, Nepal, Niger, and Nigeria), and the impact of temperature, precipitation, and soil types on aflatoxin contamination. …”
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Women’s and Men’s Political Participation Training Curriculum by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan

“…Women’s and Men’s Political Participation Trainings are curricula developed jointly by ActionAid Nigeria and the CGIAR to strengthen women’s sense of collective efficacy and leadership skills, and to increase men’s support for women’s voice and agency. …”
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Agricultural strategy drafting retreat by Adeogun, Grace

“…The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (FMAWR) is updating Nigeria's agricultural development strategy document to make it meet the requirement of evidence-based strategy formulation. …”
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Economics of root crop processing and utilization in Africa. A challenge for Research by Nweke, F.I.

“…Time-series data from various sources, par- ticularly infomation generated from root and tuber crops studies conducted in south-east Nigeria in 1984-85, form the basis of this paper. …”
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Alley farming research on high base status soils by Kang, B., Hauser, S., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Sanginga, N., Atta-Krah, A.N.

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Science-based decision support for formulating crop fertilizer recommendations in sub-Saharan Africa by Rurinda, J., Zingore, S., Jibrin, J.M., Balemi, T., Masuki, K., Andersson, Jens A., Pampolino, M.F., Mohammed, I., Mutegi, J., Kamara A.Y., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Craufurd, Peter Q.

“…Agronomic use efficiencies of N were 18, 22 and 13 kg grain kg−1 N, on average, in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania, respectively. In Nigeria, NE recommended lower amounts of P by 9 and 11 kg ha−1 and K by 24 and 38 kg ha−1 than soil-test based and regional fertilizer recommendations, respectively. …”
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Cassava germplasm resource development by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Half of these seeds were sown in 3 different ecologies of Nigeria, representing humid, subhumid, and semiarid areas of Africa. …”
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Testing the applicability of soil erodibility nomogram for some tropical soils by Vanelslande, A., Rousseau, P., Lal, R., Gabriels, D., Ghuman, B.S.

“…Soil erodibility measurements using field runoff plots were made for three contrasting soils in Nigeria. Field experiments were conducted over a period of 3 years from 1980 to 1983. …”
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Economic contribution of tropically adapted and more productive breeds based village chicken production in sub-Saharan Africa: ACGG model by Yitayih, Mulugeta, Esatu, Wondmeneh, Geremew, Kumlachew, Yemane, Tsion, Dessie, Tadelle

“…The estimated average annual net farm income is about 2842, 3005, and 1919 USD in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania, respectively. On average mother unit farms generate about 26.0, 34.8 and 31.1% gross margin in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, respectively. …”
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Gender and access to cowpea innovations in West Africa: a review of some critical issues by Adetonah, S., Nouhoheflin, S.T., Aitchedji, C.

“…In northern Nigeria, men would grow cowpea for incomes and then food while women would grow cowpea for home consumption and feed for small ruminants. …”
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Pre- and post-Ebola outbreak trends in wild meat trade in West Africa by Funk, S.M., Fa, J.E., Ajong, S.N., Eniang, E.A., Dendi, D., Vittorio, M. di, Petrozzi, F., Amadi, N., Akani, G.C., Luiselli, L.

“…Ebola virus disease, EVD, has been linked with wild meat. In Nigeria, strict restrictions on wild meat sales were applied after the first case in July 2014. …”
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Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterrenea L) landraces using DArT SNP markers by Uba, C.U., Oselebe, H.O., Abebe, A.T., Abtew, W.G.

“…The genetic distance between pairs of regions varied from 0.002 to 0.028 with higher similarity between Nigeria/Cameroon-West Africa accessions and East-Southern Africa accessions. …”
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Maize yield responsiveness and profitability of fertilizer: New survey evidence from six African countries by Ragasa, Catherine, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Asante, Seth, Amare, Mulubrhan, Ma, Ning, Olanrewaju, Opeyemi, Duchoslav, Jan

“…Increasing inorganic fertilizer use would be profitable in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda at current market prices, but not in Malawi or Tanzania. …”
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