Resultados de búsqueda - "West Africa"

Diseases affecting oil palm por Álvarez, Elizabeth

“…This chapter reviews the oil palm diseases which act as a major production constraint in West Africa, South East Asia and South and Central America. …”
Enlace del recurso

Population structure, inbreeding and admixture in local cattle populations managed by community‐based breeding programs in Burkina Faso por Ouédraogo, D., Ouédraogo-Koné, S., Yougbaré, B., Soudré, A., Zoma‑Traoré, B., Mészáros, Gábor, Khayatzadeh, N., Traoré, A., Sanou, M., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Wurzinger, Maria, Burger, P.A., Sölkner, J.

“…While well‐structured breeding programs are common in developed countries, in developing country situations, especially in West Africa, on‐farm performance and pedigree recordings are rare, and thus, genomic markers provide insights to the levels of genetic diversity, inbreeding and introgression by other breeds. …”
Enlace del recurso

Training workshops on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) por Dembélé, Catherine, Bazie, Paulin

“…Developed by the University of Reading in the framework of CCAFS project, PICSA has been taken to scale and adapted widely in West Africa by ICRAF/SAHEL since 2015. PICSA is an approach that has been developed for extension agents to enable them to improve the support provided to farmers considering climate information relevant to the locality of the farmers. …”
Enlace del recurso

Field experiences and lessons learned from applying participatory system dynamics modelling to sustainable water and agri-food systems por Kotir, Julius H., Jagustovic, Renata, Papachristos, George, Zougmore, Robert B., Kessler, Aad, Reynolds, Martin, Ouedraogo, Mathieu, Ritsema, Coen J., Aziz, Ammar Abdul, Johnstone, Ron

“…We draw on two projects implemented in the Volta River Basin, West Africa, to understand the dynamics of water and agri-food systems under changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions. …”
Enlace del recurso

Alternate wetting and drying: a water‑saving technology for sustainable rice production in Burkina Faso? por Johnson, J.M., Becker, M., Kabore, J.E., Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Saito, Kazuki

“…Alternate wetting and moderate soil drying irrigation (i.e., re-irrigation when the water level reaches 15 cm below the soil surface) has proven to be an efficient water-saving technology in semi-arid zones of West Africa, reducing water inputs without yield penalty. …”
Enlace del recurso

Trait preferences of sorghum and pearl millet value chain actors in Mali and Burkina Faso: a case for gender- responsive and demand-driven breeding por Yila, Jummai Othniel, Sylla, Almamy, Traoré, Sékou, Sawadogo-Compaoré, Eveline

“…Sorghum and pearl millet have adapted to the socioecological environment in the dryland of West Africa and have been the staple crops for many years. …”
Enlace del recurso

Identifying potential for rice expansion in Burkina Faso: integrating EO and climate data for suitability mapping por Meier, J., Hirner, A., Akpoti, Komlavi, Hackman, K., Gessner, U.

“…Over the last years, food security in West Africa has been strongly influenced by increasing weather variability, including rising temperatures, irregular precipitation patterns, and more frequent extreme events. …”
Enlace del recurso

Phenotypic evaluation of a multi-location cassava breeding trial to improve a genomic selection training population por Uchendu, U.K., Parkes, Elizabeth Y., Aina, O.O., Akoroda, M.O., Kulakow, Peter A.

“…Thirty white fleshed cassava genotypes derived from crosses between genotypes from West Africa x East Africa and West Africa x Latin America were evaluated in five major agroecological zones in Nigeria during 2012-2013. …”
Enlace del recurso

Using a linear discriminant analysis approach of baseline conditions to develop household categories in the Sudan Savanna ( KKM PLS SSA CP ), Nigeria por Olarinde, L.O., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kamara, A., Binam, J., Adekunle, A.

“…The objective of this paper was to employ some baseline data of the Sudan Savanna Task Force of the KKM PLS in West Africa, in a linear discriminant analysis to investigate some of the factors that characterised the farmers based on some starting conditions. …”
Enlace del recurso

Closing the Gap between Climate Information Producers and Users: Assessment of Needs and Uptake in Senegal por Ouédraogo, Issa, Diouf, Ndeye Seynabou, Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Ndiaye, Ousmane, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…West Africa is a very vulnerable part of the world to the impacts of climate change due to a combination of exposure and low adaptive capacity. …”
Enlace del recurso

Impact of natural, planted (Pueraria phaseoloides, Leucaena leucocephala) fallow and landuse intensity on weed seedling emergence pattern and density in cassava intercropped with m... por Ekeleme, F., Chikoye, David, Akobundu, I.O.

“…Such knowledge is especially important for small-scale farmers in West Africa who spend a greater percentage of family labour in controlling weeds. …”
Enlace del recurso

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security - Plan of Work and Budget 2021 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…While no substantial changes have been made to the overall balance of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagships (FP) nor to its Theory of Change, the introduction of Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) to the program is an exciting development for CCAFS Flagships 1, 2, and 4, as well as for the teams in East Africa (EA) and West Africa (WA).…”
Enlace del recurso

Variety and Planting Density Effects on Grain and Fodder Yield of Groundnut, Ghana por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…Groundnut is the most important food and feed crop in West Africa. Grain and fodder yields on farmers field in Ghana are low due to limited use of improved varieties and inappropriate agronomic practices such as low planting densities. …”
Enlace del recurso

Greenhouse Selection for Drought Resistance in Rice por O'Toole, J.C., Maguling, M.A.

“…Cultivars receiving desirable scores are mainly dryland adapted rices from West Africa, Brazil, and some South and Southeast Asian hill rices.…”
Enlace del recurso

Status of postgraduate training in the livestock sector in South Asia and priorities for ILRI’s support por Ibrahim, M.

“…In order to establish the priorities for collaborative capacity strengthening activities of the learning institutes in the areas of animal production and veterinary services, ILRI commissioned five studies covering the following subregions: Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA region); Southern Africa (SADC region), West Africa (CORAF region); South Asia; and Southeast Asia. …”
Enlace del recurso

Workshop on Mapping out a CCAFS R4D Agenda and Strategy for Southeast Asia por Jost, Christine, Sebastian, Leocadio S.

“…The region was added to the CCAFS portfolio (East Africa, West Africa, South America, South Asia) in order to make the program fully global.…”
Enlace del recurso

Animal traction for agricultural development por Starkey, P.H., Faye, A.

“…Presents, in the first part, a summary of the activities, conclusions and evaluation of the third workshop of the West Africa Animal Traction Network (in both English and French). …”
Enlace del recurso

Testing climate and agriculture policy against future scenarios por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Since 2010, the team has built regional scenarios for East and West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central America and the Andes. …”
Enlace del recurso

CCAFS Village Baseline Study 2010-11 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…This study contains files produced for and generated by the CCAFS Village Baseline Study which was run in core sites in East & West Africa and South Asia. The study includes several activities involving members of the local communities; photos and maps from these activities are available in this archive. …”
Enlace del recurso

Yam breeding at IITA: achievements, challenges, and prospects por López Montes, Antonio José, Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Girma Tessema, G.

“…About 10 species are widely cultivated around the world, but only D. rotundata, D. alata, and D. cayenensis are the most widely cultivated species in West Africa, accounting for 93% of the global yam production. …”
Enlace del recurso