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Managing Fertilizer Recommendations in Rice-Based Cropping Systems Challenges and Strategic Approaches by Bado, V.B., Djaman, K., Valère, M.C.

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Quantifying the sustainability of water availability for the water‐food‐energy‐ecosystem nexus in the Niger River Basin by Yang, Jie, Yang, Y.C. Ethan, Khan, Hassaan F., Xie, Hua, Ringler, Claudia

“…The Niger River Basin in West Africa is such a system, where water infrastructure development to meet growing water, food, and energy demands may threaten a productive and vulnerable basin ecosystem. …”
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Coconut palms on the edge of the desert: genetic diversity of Cocos nucifera L. in Oman by Perera, L., Baudouin, L., Bourdeix, Roland, Bait Fadhil, A., Hountondji, F.C.C., Al-Shanfri, A.

“…The local Oman Tall has the same phenotypic characteristics as other coconuts of South Asia, East and West Africa, the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast of South America. …”
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A geospatial dataset of inland valleys in four zones in Benin, Sierra Leone and Mali by Djagba, J.F., Kouyate, A.M., Baggie, I., Zwart, Sander J.

“…The dataset described in this data article represents four agricultural zones in West-Africa that are located in three countries: Benin, Mali and Sierra Leone. …”
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CTA Project Completion Report: AgriHack Talent: Focus on Pitch AgriHack by Lohento, Ken, Koutchade, Folake, Bellinzas, Giorgio

“…The 2016 edition covered all ACP countries, the 2017 edition focused on West Africa and the last two editions organised in 2018 and 2019 again covered all ACP countries. …”
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of croplands in expanding West African cities by Karg, H., Drechsel, Pay, Dittrich, N., Cauchois, A.

“…The rapid expansion of cities in West Africa has implications for urban cropland. This study aimed to assess the dynamics of cropland in West African cities over time and space, to identify key drivers, and to report the effects of changing cropland on farmers and farmers’ resilience strategies. …”
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Transforming Food Systems in Africa under Climate Change Pressure: Role of Climate-Smart Agriculture by Zougmoré, Robert B., Läderach, Peter R.D., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…We followed an integrative review approach based on selected concrete example-experiences from ground-implemented projects across Africa (Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, in West Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania in East Africa). …”
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Seed yam production using high-quality minitubers derived from plants established with vine cuttings by Aighewi, B., Maroya, N., Kumar, P. Lava, Balogun, M., Aihebhoria, D., Mignouna, Djana B., Asiedu, R.

“…Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a valuable food security crop in West Africa, where 92% of the world production occurs. …”
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The UCR Minicore: a valuable resource for cowpea research and breeding by Munoz Amatriain, M., Lo, S., Herniter, I., Boukar, O., Fatokun, C., Carvalho, E., Castro, I., Guo, Y., Huynh, B., Roberts, P.A., Carnide, V., Close, T.J.

“…All six subpopulations were present to some extent in West African material, suggesting that West Africa is a center of diversity for cultivated cowpea. …”
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Nutrient constraint of rainfed rice production in foot slope soil of Guinea Forest in Côte d’Ivoire by Koné, B., Fofana, M., Sorho, F., Diatta, S., Ogunbayo, A., Sie, M.

“…Soil nutrient deficiencies can affect rice yield and grain mineral content wherever they occur, but an understanding of their effect on upland rice production in humid forest zone of West Africa is still limited. Therefore, a nutrient omission trial was conducted on foot slope soil in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in Côte d’Ivoire using rice variety WAB 56–104. …”
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A single-nucleotide polymorphism causes smaller grain size and loss of seed shattering during African rice domestication by Wu W., Liu X., Wang M., Meyer R.S., Luo X., Ndjiondjop M.N., Tan L., Zhang J., Wu J., Cai H., Sun C., Wang X., Wing, Rod A., Zhu Z.

“…These results provide new insights into diverse domestication practices in African rice, and also pave the way for enhancing crop yield to meeting the challenge of cereal demand in West Africa.…”
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Gender and youth responsiveness considerations for targeting, testing and scaling suitable CSA practices and technologies: Learnings from the Climate-Smart Villages by Beal, Catherine, Castellanos, Andrea Estefania, Martínez, Jesús David, Ouedraogo, Mathieu, Recha, John W.M., Radeny, Maren A.O., Läderach, Peter R.D., Bonilla-Findji, Osana

“…The diverse settings of CSVs (across East and West Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Latin America) and long program timeline, present a unique opportunity to gather learnings for the broader agriculture research for development community and practitioners. …”
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Assessment of yam mild mosaic virus coat protein gene sequence diversity reveals the prevalence of cosmopolitan and African group of isolates in Ghana and Nigeria by Nkere, C.K., Otto, E., Atiri, G.I., Onyeka, J., Silva, G., Bömer, M., Seal, S.E., Kumar, P. Lava

“…Understanding YMMV sequence diversity in West Africa aid in the improvement of diagnostic assays necessary for virus indexing and seed certification.…”
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Nematode infestation and N-effect of legumes on soil and crop yelds in legume-sorghum rotations by Bado, V., Sawadogo, A., Thio, B., Bationo, A., Traoré, K., Cescas, M.

“…The effects of cowpea (Vignaunguiculata) andgroundnut (Arachis hypogea) on succeedingsorghum yields, soil mineral N and nematode infestation were studied during five cropping seasons (2000 to 2004) in a weakly acid Ultisol ofthe agronomy research station of Farakô-Ba located in the Guinean zone of Burkina Faso, WestAfrica. A factorial 5 × 5 design of five crop rotations with five fertilizer treatments in a split-plotarrangement with four replications was used.Sorghum yields were affected by the two factors(rotation with legumes and fertilizer applications)during the four years. …”
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Milk: the new white gold? Milk production options for smallholder farmers in Southern Mali by Ridder, N. de, Sanogo, O.M., Rufino, Mariana C., Keulen, H. van, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Until the turn of the century, farmers in West Africa considered cotton to be the 'white gold' for their livelihoods. …”
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Multi-trait selection index for superior agronomic and tuber quality traits in bush yam (Dioscorea praehensilis Benth.) by Adewumi, A.S., Asare, P.A., Adejumobi, I.I., Adu, M.O., Taah, K.J., Adewale, S., Mondo, J., Agre, A.P.

“…The results of this study provide insight for future yam breeding and improvement programs in West Africa.…”
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Future shifting of annual extreme flows under climate change in the Volta River Basin by Dembélé, Moctar, Vrac, M., Ceperley, N., Zwart, Sander J., Larsen, J., Dadson, S. J., Mariéthoz, G., Schaefli, B.

“…Global warming is projected to result in changes in streamflow in West Africa with implications for frequent droughts and floods. …”
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Multi-component cash transfer programs: Evidence from Mali’s social safety net program (Jigisémèjiri) by Hidrobo, Melissa, Huybregts, Lieven, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Roy, Shalini

“…When cash transfer programs are com-bined with nutrition interventions, they also have the potential to accelerate improvements in child nutrition, especially when targeted to the critical window of opportunity for nutrition, the first one thousand days of a child’s life (Ruel et al., 2013). In West Africa, many cash transfer programs are combined with accompanying measures such as promotion sessions that aim to improve knowledge and increase adoption of recommended behaviors—including those related to child nutrition (Beegle et al., 2018, see Box 1). …”
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Africa RISING - Malawi Productivity of Maize after Legumes by Michigan State University

“…Project website: http://africa-rising.net http://africa-rising.net/where-we-work/west-africa…”
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Mali Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The overall aim of the program is to transform agricultural systems through sustainable intensification projects in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali, and (potentially) Zambia. In West Africa, IITA works with multi-disciplinary R4D partners in selected communities located in Northern Ghana and Southern Mali. …”
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