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  • Publication | 2021
Combining on-farm innovation tracking and participatory prototyping trials to develop legume-based cropping systems in West Africa
Global Food and Nutrition Security

In the cotton-production zone of Burkina Faso, poor soil fertility and limited access to appropriate fertilizers call for alternative approaches to sustain productivity, such as the introduction of more legumes into the agroecosystem. Legumes have nearly disappeared from local cropping systems under the pressure of the cotton monocropping model. To develop new legume-based cropping systems using a bottom-up approach, this study was based on local farmers' agroecological innovations.