Tags: crops

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 Goba District of the Bale zone in...

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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

Journal Article

Published2020

Indigenous knowledge of veterinary medicinal plant use in cattle treatment in southwestern Burkina Faso (West Africa)

Extension Material

Published2019

How to establish fodder

Journal Article

Published2019

Genetic profiling of aspergillus isolates with varying aflatoxin production potential from different maize-growing regions of Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Assessing across-scale optical diversity and productivity relationships in grasslands of the Italian Alps

Journal Article

Published2020

Genotyping-by-sequencing reveals population structure and genetic diversity of a Buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.)

Report

Published2019

ILRI Feed 3 project report, April–September 2019

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ILRI Projects on crops

Jan 2019Dec 2020

Feed the Future - Accelerated Value Chain Development Program phase II

The Feed the Future Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development program seeks to widely apply technologies and innovations for selected value chains in order to competitively and sustainably increase productivity, contributing to inclusive agricultural growth, nutrition and food security in the...

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...