Resultados de búsqueda - "West Africa"

Recent trends and future prospects of cross-border agricultural trade in Niger por Odjo, Sunday P., Badiane, Ousmane

“…An economy-wide multimarket and multi-country model of the West Africa region is used to explore likely changes in cross-border trade flows. …”
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Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger por Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…However, this approach has failed to recognize that the main characteristic of the Sahelian part of West Africa is the intricate complexity of the social, environmental, and economic dimensions that differentially affect male and female rural dwellers. …”
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Comprehension and risk elicitation in the field: Evidence from rural Senegal por Charness, Gary, Viceisza, Angelino

“…In this paper, we report the results observed using three distinct risk elicitation mechanisms, using samples drawn from the rural population in Senegal, West Africa. Whatever the intellectual merits of a particular elicitation strategy, there is little value in performing such tests if the respondents do not understand the questions involved. …”
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Rainfall estimation in the West African Sahel: comparison and cross-validation of top-down vs. bottom-up precipitation products in Burkina Faso por Yonaba, R., Belemtougri, A., Fowe, T., Mounirou, L. A., Nkiaka, E., Dembélé, Moctar, Akpoti, Komlavi, Coly, S. M., Koïta, M., Karambiri, H.

“…This study compares the performance of satellite precipitation products (SPPs) and soil moisture-based rainfall products (SM2RPPs) in capturing rainfall patterns in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The findings indicate that SPPs outperform SM2RPPs at daily to annual timescales. …”
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The economics of seed use and production for farmers and seed enterprises: The case of groundnut, millet and sorghum por Marenya, Paswel, Narmandakh, Davaatseren, Kirui, Leonard, Odhong, Jonathan A., Templer, Noel A., Agong, David, Opie, Hellen, Mchau, Devotha, Gerald, Alex, Martey, Edward, Sime, Mekonnen, Zemedu, Lemma, Bett, Charles, Compaore, Eveline, Dembele, Djeneba, Abdulsalam, Zakari

“…Case studies from East and West Africa provide insights into the profitability of early-generation and certified seed production, demonstrating the importance of integrating private and public sector strategies to enhance economic seed production. …”
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Epicuticular Wax and Cuticular Resistance in Rice por O'Toole, J.C., Cruz, R.T., SEIBER, J.N.

“…The porometry and GLC techniques may be useful in selecting parents, spot checking in a pedigree program, or checking lines reaching the yield testing stage, but ate not well suited lor mass screening early generation progeny.Significant differences were found in the two rice cultivurs, ‘63–83′, an upland adapted rice from West Africa, and “IR20′, bred and selected in submerged paddy culture in ihc Philippines, by tlie above methods of characterizing cuticular resistance and epicuticular wax. …”
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Management of the Banana Bunchy Top Virus, lessons and tools por Omondi, Bonaventure Aman

“…This spread threatens both banana production and safety of germplasm conserved on farm as farmer landraces in the two centres of secondary expansion, East African Highland Bananas (Great Lakes Region) and Plantain (West Africa). The Banana Bunchy top Virus (BBTV) is spread by the banana aphid, Pentalonia nigronervosa; and the sister species P. caladii, and by planting infected planting material. …”
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Remote sensing applications for rice mapping and yield estimation in the Senegal River Valley (SRV) of Senegal por Mathieu, Renaud, Murugesan, Deiveegan, Quicho, Emma, Faye, Omar Ndaw, Sall, Moussa, Gatti, Luca, Holec, Francesco

“…Rice is a vital and staple food in Senegal, as it is for the whole of West Africa, and yet cultivation is still limited while consumption is continuously increasing. …”
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Market intelligence for rice, sorghum and yam in Benin and Ghana: Key findings from 2024 surveys por Adinsi, L., Agey-Holmes, A., Akissoe, N., Amma Asante-Poku, N., Anihouvi, E., Bouniol, A., Dufour, D., Honfozo, L., Hotegni, F., Maki Sy, M., Mbeguie, D., Mendez del Villar, P., Ofosu Krofa, E., Pede, P., Soullier, G., Tran, T., Wilson, G.

“…Rice, sorghum and yam all play a crucial role in food security across West Africa, being consumed in various forms at every meal, both in rural and urban areas. …”
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Préparation des Terres Pour La Riziculture Irriée en Afrique de l’Ouest por Oke, Adebayo, Atengdem, P. B., Zemadim, Birhanu, Cofie, Olufunke O.

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Twenty years of experience of joint dry forest management in Burkina Faso por Sawadogo, L., Tiveau, D.

“…A series of projects In Burkina Faso, West Africa, started in the 1980s led to the establishment of a system of joint forest management that should be sustainable, produce wood fuel to the nation’s capital and allow local people to engage and benefit from management of their forests. …”
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Stylosanthes for pasture development. An overview of ILCA's experience in Nigeria por Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…However, until recently none of the species were adopted by the farmers because there is no tradition of growing forages in West Africa. Hence, there had to be closer interaction with the producers to biotechnically and socioculturally tailor forages to the prevailing farming systems. …”
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Identifying Chamaecrista rotundifolia accessions and Centrosema species for bridging seasonal feed gaps in smallholder mixed farms in the West African derived savanna por Larbi, Asamoah, Adekunle, I.O., Awojide, A.A., Akinlade, J.

“…Two experiments were conducted from 1992-1994 in the derived savanna zone of West Africa to determine the dry matter (DM) yield and 48-h in sacco DM digestibility of 17 accessions of Chamaecrista rotundifolia (Experiment 1), and 22 accessions of 8 Centrosema species (Experiment 2) in the main-wet (April-August), minor-wet (September-November), and dry (December-March) seasons. …”
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Nutrient cycling in integrated rangeland/cropland systems of the Sahel por Powell, J.M., Fernández Rivera, S., Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Turner, M.D.

“…In the Sahel of West Africa, the productivities of rangelands, croplands and livestock are inextricably linked. …”
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Feed supplementation of lactating N'Dama cows under village husbandry por Little, D.A., Wassink, G.J., Agyemang, K., Leperre, P., Janneh, L., Badjie, B.

“…Groups of lactating N'Dama cows maintained under traditional husbandry conditions were given dry season supplements of locally available oil seed residues to establish nutritional recommendations for improving livestock productivity in the sub-humid zone of West Africa. In one experiment cows were given 0 or 1 kg cotton seed head-1 day -1 for the last five months of the dry season in three Gambian villages. …”
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Urine effects on soil chemical properties and the impact of urine and dung on pearl millet yield por Powell, J.M., Ikpe, F.N., Somda, Z.C., Fernández Rivera, S.

“…Most farming systems in semi-arid West Africa rely on organic matter recycling for maintaining soil fertility. …”
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Effect of type and level of roughage offered to sheep and urine addition on compost quality and millet growth and production in the Sahel por Sangare, M., Bationo, B. André, Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Fernández Rivera, S., Pandey, V.S.

“…It was concluded that addition of urine during composting of roughage leftovers and faeces from stall-fed animals could significantly improve nutrient recycling and consequently the productivity of mixed farming systems of semi-arid West Africa.…”
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Can small reservoirs enhance sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa?: broadening the analytical horizons por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Hirvonen, M.

“…Small reservoirs punctuate the landscapes of rural sub-Saharan (West) Africa. It has become an established development truth that such water infrastructures offer benefits in terms of food production and poverty alleviation -this despite the fact that performance and adoption study show, at best, patchy records. …”
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Semi-quantitative evaluation of waterlogging duration using two models based on soil colour in a representative upland catchment of northern Lao PDR por Bourdon, Emmanuel, Blavet, D., Luankongkam, O., Soulileuth, B., Chanhphengxay, A., Pierret, Alain, Ribolzi, Olivier

“…These models, based on variations in soil colour, were developed by Blavet et al (2000) from observations and measurements made in a semi-arid environment in West Africa. Therefore there is a need to evaluate whether these models are also pertinent in a mountainous context of northern Laos. …”
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Characterization of a collection of Aeschynomene histrix in subhumid Nigeria por Merkel, U, Peters, Michael, Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Berner, D.K.

“…Such material has the potential to contribute to both livestock-forage and improved fallow systems with the aim of increasing the sustainability of agricultural production in West Africa.…”
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