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ILRI News on crops

05 Jul 2021

Ethiopia partners apply digital solutions in on-farm experiments

Training participants group photo (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu) . The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian Highlands held training sessions for project site coordinators, extension experts, development agents and data enumerators from 7–8 June 2021. Close to 20 participants from project...

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AVCD program blog

27 Jun 2021

Potato farming: a windfall for Taita Taveta farmers

Nashon Wadime, one of the farmers who have embraced potato farming in his potato farm in Chawia Ward, Taita Taveta County. Since its formation in 2008, members of Kuzoya Self Help Group in Chawia Ward, Taita Taveta County had never considered growing potatoes, even though it was grown in some...

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AVCD program blog

27 Jun 2021

Taita Taveta farmers make a fortune from drought-tolerant crops

Christine Nashera inspecting her groundnut crop in Chala Ward, Taveta Though groundnuts are a highly popular and nutritious snack in Taita Taveta County, the residents had always depended on imports from the neighboring Tanzania. Farmers had failed to take advantage of its popularity and high...

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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...