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Impacts of climate-smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenya by Radeny, Maren A.O., Rao, E.J.O., Ogada, Maurice Juma, Recha, John W.M., Solomon, Dawit

“…Using a combination of Propensity Score Matching and endogenous treatment efect approaches, we found that adoption of stress-tolerant varieties of several crops (such as bean, pigeon pea, cowpea, maize and sorghum) improved household dietary diversity score by 40% and reduced food insufciency by 75%. …”
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Training Manual on Bundled Climate Smart Agriculture, Climate Information Services and One-Health Technologies for Priority Value Chains by Yeboah, Stephen, Martey, Francisca, Clottey, Victor, Damba, Osman Tahidu, Adomako, Joseph, Amankwaa-Yeboah, Patricia, Frimpong-Annin, Kofi, Wadie, Blankson Amoabeng, Haleegoah, Joyce, Badu-Brempong, Mavis, Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Obeng, Faustina, Nii-Koi, Gordon, Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain, Agboton, Cyriaque, Tamo, Manuele

“…Specifically, the manual provides climate information services, climate smart agriculture innovations and one health intervention that have been prioritized along maize, cowpea, yam, sweetpotato and tomato value chains.…”
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Soil physical changes and crop root growth following different methods of land clearing in western Nigeria. by Hulugalle, N.R., Lal, R., Ter Kuile, C.H.H.

“…Root growth of mucuna and cowpea were not affected by the changes in soil physical properties.…”
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The role of legume forages as supplements to low quality roughages - ILRI experience by Osuji, P.O., Odenyo, A.A.

“…Supplementing teff straw with graded levels of cowpea or lablab significantly increased microbial N supply in calves. …”
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Effect of crop rotation and nitrogen fertilization on yield and nitrogen efficiency in maize in the northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria by Yusuf, A.A., Iwuafor, E.N.O., Abaidoo, Robert C., Olufajo, O.O., Sanginga, Nteranya

“…Maize was grown on plots which had previously supported monocrops of two genotypes each of soybean (TGx 1448-2E and SAMSOY-2) and cowpea (IT 96D-724 and SAMPEA-7), natural fallow and maize. …”
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Invitro wholeseedling assay for evaluating nonhost crop plant induction of germination of witch weed seeds by Ahonsi, M., Emechebe, A.

“…In order to compare this new technique with the well established ‘cut-root assay\', sixteen legume cultivars, comprising of seven cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), six soybean (Glycine max), and three groundnut (Arachis hypogea ), in addition to maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids 8338-1 and 9022-13 (used as checks) were screened against three S. hermonthica populations. …”
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Cassava mosaic disease and its causal agents: the Nigeria situation by Ogbe, F., Atiri, G., Thottappilly, G., Dixon, A.

“…Bemisia tabaci, the whitefly vector of the viruses, is host-specifi c; those infesting cassava are different from those infesting other crops such as cowpea, tomato, and sweetpotato. The decrease in the rate of spread of CMD from the humid forest to the semiarid and arid regions reflects the gradients of whitefly population and cassava cultivation. …”
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Horizontal resistance: core to a research breakthrough to combat Striga in Africa by Kim, S.K.

“…This horizontal resistance package, with a combined resistance to other biotic stresses, could be applicable not only to Strigaproblems in other crops such as sorghum, millet, rice and cowpea, but also to other parasitic weeds, such as Orobanche species. …”
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Huéspedes y enemigos naturales de Heliothis spp., en la región algodonera del Departamento del Tolima, Colombia by Hallman, G

“…In the laboratory H. vitescens 1as able to complete development on some plants that it was not found to be infesting in the ficld including grain sorshum and cowpea. Six paratites and several predators were found attacking Helicthis Cardiochiles nigriceps Vierick (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitized up to 90 percent of the larvae of H virescens collected from D. tostuosum. …”
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Evaluation of the behavior of common bean cultivars and promising lines under natural virus infection = Evaluación del comportamiento de cultivares y líneas experimentales de porot... by Rodriguez Pardina, Patricia, Reyna, Pablo Gastón, Campos, Ramon Eduardo, Varela, Gonzalo Matías, Peña Malavera, Andrea Natalia, Geronimo, Luis Marcelo

“…Se trabajó, durante tres campañas agrícolas con 14 cultivares, evaluándose severidad de síntomas, incidencia y concentración relativa de los virus Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Cowpea mild mottle virus (CpMMV), Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV), Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) y geminivirus. …”
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Transmisión por semilla y control de la antracnosis del caupí,causada por Colletotrichum dematium, (Pers. ex Fr) Grove. by Osorio Cardona, Jairo A.

“…Seed transmission of Colletotrichuin dematiuin through cowpea seeds, and its control with fungicide seed treatments was studied at the Turipaná National Research Center of ICA (Colombian Institute of Agriculture) located in Cereté (Córdoba). …”
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An approach for the evaluation of herbaceous legumes with multiple benefits by Tarawali, Shirley A.

“…The experiment included 14 accessions of single legume species, 9 mixtures of species, and 4 grain-legume accessions (soybean and cowpea). Mixtures of species, including combinations of rapidly establishing and slowly establishing but more persistent species, were designed to stabilize yield and minimize the risk involved in introducing herbaceous legumes. …”
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Supplementation with groundnut haulms for sheep fattening in the West African Sahel by Ayantunde, Augustine A., Delfosse, P., Fernández Rivera, S., Gerard, Bruno G., Dan-Gomma, A.

“…Groundnut haulms along with cowpea hay are major crop residues used for animal fattening in the West African Sahel. …”
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Suitability and Potential Nutrient Contribution of Underutilized Foods in Community-Based Infant Foods in Northern Ghana by Kubuga, C.K., Bantiu, C., Low, Jan W.

“…We developed 38 recipes of enriched community-based infant foods adding underutilized foods (orange-fleshed sweet potato, pawpaw, cowpea, moringa, groundnut, Bambara beans, and soya beans) to increase the number of nutrients from three to at least five and at most nine nutrients with % RNI ≥ 70 based on the recipe combinations. …”
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Empowering smallholder farmers by sustainable fodder development for improved animal management in Odisha by Das, Swetasmita

“…Heifer International’s project in Odisha aims to promote the cultivation of diverse fodder crops, including tree fodders like moringa and subabul, grasses like napier and blue buffel, and seasonal crops like maize and cowpea. The project places a strong emphasis on the adoption of sustainable farming practices and provides targeted training to members of self-help groups (SHGs) on improved animal management and good agricultural practices (GAP) for fodder development. …”
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Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method by Mukerjee, Rishabh, Fatou Faye, Ndeye, Badji, Malamine J., Gomez, Miguel, Rubin, Deborah, Tufan, Hale Ann, Occelli, Martina

“…We present preliminary results from testing this combined protocol with 270 cowpea growing households (540 respondents) in Senegal. …”
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Conservation Agriculture Mother Trials in Chipata, Lundazi, and Sinda, Zambia by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zambian Agriculture Research Institute, Total LandCare

“…The four treatments including control were: - Conventional ridge and furrow with continuous sole maize (CRF); - No-tillage / Dibblestick CA system with continuous sole maize; - Dibblestick CA system with maize intercropped with cowpea; - Dibblestick CA with maize rotated with legumes. …”
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Conservation Agriculture Mother Trials in Chipata, Lundazi, and Sinda, Zambia, 2020 by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zambian Agriculture Research Institute, Total LandCare

“…The four treatments including control were: - Conventional ridge and furrow with continuous sole maize (CRF); - No-tillage / Dibblestick CA system with continuous sole maize; - Dibblestick CA system with maize intercropped with cowpea; - The animal traction CA system consisted of two treatments that were compared with a conventional ridge and furrow practice at each farmer's field. …”
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Internal displacement and the promotion of agricultural intensification in Nigeria: Experimental evidence from a fragile setting by Misra, Rewa S., Bloem, Jeffrey R., Ambler, Kate, Wagner, Julia, Amare, Mulubrhan

“…Discounted treatments lead to near universal rates of adoption of the bundle, as well as greater use of bundle components including biofortified seeds (i.e., high iron pearl millet, high iron cowpea, and vitamin A maize) and complementary inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. …”
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Comparative yield and nutritive value of forages from two cereal-legume based cropping systems. 2. Milk production and reproductive performance of crossbred dairy cows by Crosse, A., Umunna, N.N., Osuji, P.O., Tegegne, Azage, Khalili, H., Tedla, A.

“…Crops in System 1 were: oat-vetch, wheat-trifolium, teff straw, and cowpea, and in System 2 maize-lablab replaced wheat-trifolium. …”
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