Agriculture in West Africa faces the challenge of meeting the rising demand for food as national incomes and populations increase while production becomes more uncertain due to climate...
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As part of the climate-smart agriculture approach, the adoption of climate-resilient crop varieties has the potential to build farmers’ climate resilience but could also induce agricultural transformation in developing...
Sorghum (sorghum bicolor) is widely cultivated across West Africa, in a broad range of agro-ecological conditions and contrasting production objectives of individual farmers, women and men. These...
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CSA is positively associated with land productivity.
CSA is also positively associated with food security.
The bundled use of CSA practices offers greater land...
CONTEXT
Increasing numbers of young people enter Sub-Saharan Africa's labour markets each year while industrial jobs only grow slowly. As 62% of...
Cas du sorgho et du niébé dans l'environnement soudano-sahélien
Dans la zone soudano sahélienne d'Afrique de l'Ouest, la productivité agricole...
Glimpse inside a Niger-based organisation that uses satellite data to predict when and how wet the rainy season will be.
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...