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ILRI News on crops

09 Dec 2021

Nandi Potato Cooperative driving potato to an enterprising commercial crop in Nandi County

Members of the Nandi Potato Cooperative Society weigh their seed potato harvest at their farm in Nandi County. Around 2015, Nandi County with its vast agricultural land and potential had only about 70 farmers growing potatoes on about 70 hectares (ha), according to Silas Too, potato value chain...

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Africa RISING feed

21 Oct 2021

Quality barley seeds and linkages with breweries unlock better incomes for Ethiopian farmers

Assefa Negash, a farmer and secretary of the Bekume Oyora Seeds Growers’ Cooperative, has long faced difficulties in getting high-quality malt barley seeds. He cultivates the crop jointly with members of his cooperative group on a 3.3-hectare piece of land in the Goba District of the Bale zone,...

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AVCD program blog

26 Sep 2021

New drought-tolerant varieties rekindle hopes of food security in drought-prone Makueni County

A happy and hopeful Wilson Lati at his drought-tolerant Sorghum farm in Emali/Mulala Ward in Makueni Hoping against hope of decent harvests, farmers in the semi-arid and arid regions of eastern Kenya have always planted their traditional and favourite food crops – pigeonpea, green gram, sorghum,...

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Publications on crops

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Published2011

A meta-analysis of long-term effects of conservation agriculture on maize grain yield under rain-fed conditions

Journal Article

Published2020

Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions

Report

Published2022

Nutritional content of different feed and fodder resources in different agroclimatic zones of Odisha

Journal Article

Published2022

Effect of processed sweet lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) grain supplementation on growth performance and socioeconomic feasibility of Doyogena sheep in Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2008

Elephants or onions? Paying for nature in Amboseli, Kenya

Journal Article

Published2022

Foliar diseases and the associated fungi in rice cultivated in Kenya

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ILRI Projects on crops

Oct 2017Sep 2022

Kenya crops and dairy market systems development activity (KCDMSD)

The Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Development Activity (KCDMSD) is a five-year (Oct 2017–Sept 2022) program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is funded as part of Feed the Future, the US government’s global hunger, and food security initiative that helps...