The decline in soil fertility is a fundamental impediment to agricultural growth and a major reason for food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to identify the best management practice applicable to organic ...

Rice is one of the major staple foods in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and is mainly grown in three environments: rainfed upland and rainfed and irrigated lowlands. In all rice-growing environments, the yield gap (the difference ...

Wheat is one of the significant in cereal crops for feeding the world’s population, its yield and growth components adversely affect by abiotic and biotic stresses. In view of our best knowledge, there is no study on how ...

This series of briefs summarizes findings from stakeholders’ workshops conducted as part of CCAFS-EUIFAD funded project - Developing climate-smart value chains and landscapes for increased resilient livelihood in West ...

Reduction of natural vegetation cover in the savannah of West Africa constitutes a pressing environmental concern that may lead to soil degradation. With the aim to assess the degradation of natural vegetation in the savannah ...

With the ongoing global warming, the occurrence and amplitude of extreme weather events have increased over the West African Sahel. The increasing frequency of heavy rain events, can negatively affect the lowland crops’ ...

Burkina Faso has long been experiencing intense land-use landcover changes (LULCC) which have resulted in widespread land degradation. Hence, the need to obtain LULC information for improved land-use planning and sustainable ...

Cereal-leguminous cropping systems are part of logic of sustainable intensification. However, in the Sahelian zones of Mali, the yields of these associations are generally low due to the inadequate practice of this system. ...

This study was carried out in the Northern region of Burkina Faso from 2019 to 2020 to evaluate the agro - economic performance of Nofosuo compost on cabbage yield. The study used a completely randomized Fisher block ...

Several cassava varieties are grown in Côte d’Ivoire. Some of them are more widespread than others. Their dissemination depends on characteristics such as yield, taste and dry matter content. Cassava bacterial blight ...