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Physicochemical and Rheological Properties of Optimised Cocoyam-Based Composite Flour Comprising Cassava Starch

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series E: Food Technology, 2016
Composite flour comprising cocoyam (Colocassia esculenta), bambara groundnut and cassava starch was produced. The proximate and minerals compositions and functional properties were optimized using optimal mixture design of response surface methodology ...
Awolu Olugbenga Olufemi, Oseyemi Grace Funmilayo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change, Air Quality, and Pollen Allergies—State of the Art and Recommendations for Research and Public Health

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Allergies are one of the major health challenges of our time, associated with a high individual burden of disease and high costs for the healthcare system. Given their prevalence, allergies are also highly relevant from a public health perspective. The development of allergic diseases is multifactorial. In addition to individual factors (e.g.,
Jobst Augustin, Stefan Gilge, Heike Appel, Ute Dauert, Christina Endler, Ruth Heesen, Conny Höflich, Wilhelm Kuttler, Katharina Heinke Schlünzen, Wolfgang Straff, Barbora Werchan, Matthias Werchan, Torsten Zuberbier, Claudia Traidl‐Hoffmann   +13 more
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Factors Influencing Preferences and Adoption of Improved Groundnut Varieties among Farmers in Tanzania

Agronomy, 2020
Access and use of seed of improved varieties of groundnut among farmers can improve farmers’ livelihoods and contribute to the potential of crop production in Tanzania. This paper analyzes factors underpinning the adoption of improved groundnut varieties
Serapius Mwalongo, E. Akpo, Gerald Alex Lukurugu, G. Muricho, R. Vernooy, A. Minja, Chris O. Ojiewo, E. Njuguna, G. Otieno, R. Varshney   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
wiley   +1 more source

The Atoxigenic Biocontrol Product Aflasafe SN01 Is a Valuable Tool to Mitigate Aflatoxin Contamination of Both Maize and Groundnut Cultivated in Senegal.

Plant Disease, 2019
Aflatoxin contamination of groundnut and maize infected by Aspergillus section Flavi fungi is common throughout Senegal. The use of biocontrol products containing atoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strains to reduce crop aflatoxin content has been successful ...
L. Senghor, A. Ortega‐Beltran, J. Atehnkeng, K. Callicott, P. Cotty, R. Bandyopadhyay   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi, Yoshimichi Murakami   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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Proximate composition, functional, and pasting properties of wheat and groundnut protein concentrate flour blends

Food Science & Nutrition, 2018
This study investigated the effect of groundnut protein concentrate inclusion on the quality of wheat flour. Wheat and groundnut concentrate flours were blended (%, w/w) at ratios 100:0, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, and 80:20, with 100% wheat flour serving as the
O. Ocheme, O. Adedeji, C. Chinma, C. M. Yakubu, Ugochukwu Happiness Ajibo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
wiley   +1 more source

Groundnut policies, global trade dynamics, and the impact of trade liberalization [PDF]

Groundnut products are of central economic importance to millions of smallholders in Africa, India, and Southern China. The products generate 60 percent of rural cash income and account for about 70 percent of the rural labor force in Senegal and The ...
Beghin, John, Diop, Ndiame, Sewadeh, Mirvat   +2 more
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