Resultados de búsqueda - "West Africa"

Optimising land productivity in crop-livestock systems by integrating legumes in the lowland moist savannas of West Africa. Abstract por Tarawali, Shirley A., Smith, Jimmy W., Peters, Michael, Muhr, L., Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Tarawali, G.

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Transhumant pastoralism, sustainable management of natural resources and endemic ruminant livestock in the sub-humid zone of West Africa por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Asse, Rainer, Said, Mohammed Yahya, Fall, Abdou

“…Transhumant pastoralism is one of the dominant livestock production systems in West Africa, and it is characterized by seasonal and cyclical movement of varying degrees between complementary ecological areas. …”
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Assessment of Agricultural Information Needs in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States: West Africa: Country study Liberia por Kiazolu, James S., Tucker, Arthur R.

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Price and quality of livestock feeds in suburban markets of West Africa's Sahel: Case study from Bamako, Mali por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Blümmel, Michael, Grings, Elaine E., Duncan, Alan J.

“…As a result of this increase and the associated growth in the demand for feeds, feed markets have sprung up in many cities and towns of West Africa’s Sahel. A survey of livestock feed markets was conducted in five markets in Bamako, Mali. …”
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Effect of manure on millet production in a long-term soil fertility management experiment in Niger, West Africa por Abdou, A, Tabo, Ramadjita, Bationo, B. André

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Options for a regional policy and legal framework for the sustainable management and use of endemic ruminant livestock in West Africa por Fadiga, M.L., Fall, Abdou

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Mycoflora and natural occurrence of aflatoxins and fumonisin B1 in cassava and yam chips from Benin, West Africa por Gnonlonfin, G.J.B., Hell, K., Fandohan, P., Siame, A.B.

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Revisiting household coordinates for CCAFS Baseline in the initial regions: East Africa, West Africa and Indo-Gangetic Plains por Kiplimo, Joyce, Förch, Wiebke, Cramer, Laura K., Mills D

“…In 2010-2012, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) implemented a baseline in 15 sites across three initial target regions: East Africa, West Africa and Indo-Gangetic Plains. The baseline was setup in such a way that the households selected could be a revisited after five and ten years. …”
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Improving livestock productivity: Assessment of feed resources and livestock management practices in Sudan-Savanna zones of West Africa por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Amole, Tunde A.

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Developing community-based climate smart agriculture through participatory action research in benchmark sites in West Africa por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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Hétéroptères phytophages et prédateurs d'Afrique de l'Ouest / Phytophagous and predatory Heteroptera in West Africa por Poutouli, W., Silvie, P., Aberlenc, H.P.

“…This clear and well-illustrated bilingual guide provides a brief description of the main species of phytophage and predatory bugs found in West Africa, principally in cotton, corn, cowpea, soybean and sorghum. …”
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On-farm diversity and market participation are positively associated with dietary diversity of rural mothers in southern Benin, West Africa por Bellon, M.R., Ntandou-Bouzitou, Gervais D., Caracciolo, Francesco

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A multicriteria GIS site selection for sustainable cocoa development in West Africa: a case study of Nigeria por Alabi, Tunrayo, Sonder, Kai, Oduwole, O., Okafor, C.

“…Cocoa occupies 6 million ha in coastal humid West Africa where 70% of world supply is grown, 90% on 2 million family farms, of 2 ha or less. …”
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Profitability analysis of commercial chemical and biological crop products among farm households in agroecological zones of West Africa por Bamire, A., Abaidoo, Robert C., Jemo, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Yusuf, A.A., Nwoke, C.

“…This paper evaluates the costs and returns incurred by the use of chemical and biological crop products among households in five selected Compro communities in the derived, Southern Guinea, Northern Guinea, Sudan and Sahel Savanna agro-ecological zones (AEZs) in West Africa. Sixty households were randomly selected in each of the communities to give a total of 300 households. …”
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Estimation of nitrogen flow within a villagefarm model in Fakara region in Niger, Sahelian zone of West Africa por Hayashi, K., Matsumoto, N., Hayashi, E., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Shinjo, H., Tabo, Ramadjita, Matsunaga, R., Tobita, S.

“…To determine the efficiency of utilization of organic matter in agricultural production, nitrogen flow was estimated within a village-farm model in the west of Niger, West Africa. Nitrogen was focused on in this study as it is known to be a major nutrient component of organic matter and one of the limiting nutrients in Sahelian soil. …”
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Technical inefficiency and papaya farm size in West Africa: a stochastic frontier approach on Benin and Ghana data por Adeoti, R., Coulibaly, O., Agossou, D., Goergen, Georg E., Tamo, Manuele

“…It is conducted using cross-sectional data collected from papaya production systems in the sub-humid zones of West Africa. Results reveal that efficiency in producing papaya are still low in both countries. …”
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Pratylenchus speijeri n. sp. (Nematoda: Pratylenchidae), a new rootlesion nematode pest of plantain in West Africa por Luca, F. de, Troccoli, A., Duncan, L.W., Subbotin, S.A., Waeyenberge, L., Coyne, Danny L., Brentu, F.C., Inserra, R.N.

“…C1 and P. coffeae has important practical application in breeding programmes for agriculture in West Africa.…”
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The spatial genetic differentiation of the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata F. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations in West Africa por Agunbiade, T.A., Coates, B.S., Kim, S.K., Forgacs, D., Margam, V.M., Murdock, L.L., Ba, Malick N., Binso-Dabire, L., Baoua, I., Ishiyaku, M., Tamo, Manuele, Pittendrigh, Barry Robert

“…The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, is an endemic insect pest that causes significant yield loss to the cowpea crop in West Africa. The application of population genetic tools is important in the management of insect pests but such data on M. vitrata is lacking. …”
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Engaging development partners in Africa RISING research for better socioeconomic impacts in West Africa semi-arid countries por Binam, Joachim N., Bayoko, A., Diakite, A., Zemadim, Birhanu, Dembélé, C.

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Acaulospora minuta, a new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species from subSaharan savannas of West Africa por Oehl, F., Palenzuela, J., Sánchez Castro, I., Hountondji, F.C.C., Tchabi, A., Lawouin, L., Barea, J-M., Coyne, Danny L., Silva, G.A. da

“…A new arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal species of the genus Acaulospora (Glomeromycota) was frequently recovered from both undisturbed and cultivated agro-ecosystems of sub-Saharan West Africa, namely in Benin. It abundantly reproduced spores in trap cultures using Sorghum bicolor, Dioscorea cayenensis and Dioscorea rotundata in the glasshouse, and pure, monosporic cultures were readily established on Hieracium pilosella and Sorghum bicolor. …”
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