LONG-RUN STRIGA CONTROL BY SUBSISTENCE FARMERS IN MALI [PDF]
A dynamic programming model is developed to identify barriers to the adoption of long-run control programs for the parasitic weed Striga. The model is applied to Sirakorola in northwestern Mali.
Fofana, Makan +3 more
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Commercialisation: A meta-approach for agricultural development among smallholder farmers in Africa? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents a critique of commercialising smallholder farming for agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. First it questions the validity of an overarching ‘metanarrative’ approach to development.
Chitundu, Maureen +2 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Striga hermonthica (witchweed) is a parasitic weed that attacks and significantly reduces the yields of maize, sorghum, millet and sugarcane throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
David Chandler Sands +7 more
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Potential Markets for Herbicide Resistant Maize Seed for Striga Control in Africa [PDF]
Striga is an obligate parasitic weed attacking cereal crops in Subsaharan Africa. In Western Kenya, it is identified by farmers as their major pest problem in maize.
De Groote, Hugo +4 more
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Plants, People, PlanetSocietal Impact Statement Striga is a parasitic plant that greatly limits the production of Africa's most staple cereals, including sorghum. Infection occurs when the parasite germinates in response to biomolecules emitted into the soil from the host's ...
Sylvia Mutinda +7 more
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CONTRIBUTIONS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPROVED TECHNOLOGIES TO RURAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: CASE OF IMAZAPYR-RESISTANT MAIZE IN WESTERN KENYA [PDF]
Last two decades have been dominated by issues on poverty as major growth area with the adoption by United Nations member countries of the Millennium Development Goals, the first of which calls for halving the incidence of poverty and hunger by 2015 ...
Manyong, Victor M. +3 more
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Classification and influence of agricultural information on striga and stemborer control in Suba and Vihiga Districts, Kenya [PDF]
This paper reports on findings of a study to examine the sources used by farmers in search of agricultural information on striga and/or stemborers control technologies and factors that influence acquisition of such information in Western Kenya region.
Amudavi, David M. +5 more
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Change in population and land use intensity under the aspect of the physical environment and accessibility [PDF]
, 2007 The land use in the Tangale-Waja area is analysed according to the two basic categories of geography: Firstly the manifold interaction between men and environment which form the spatial characteristics of an area, and secondly the decrease of influence ...
Fricke, Werner +2 more
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Perception paysanne de l'ampleur du Striga et de sa répartition sur le terroir villageois [PDF]
, 1997 Afin de mieux appréhender la diversité du problème de Striga au niveau du terroir villageois, l'Espgrn a développé une recherche-action permettant d'analyser les états du milieu et les pratiques paysannes sur plusieurs plans : le terroir, l'exploitation ...
Defoer, T., M'Piè Bengaly,
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Selection Criteria for Combining High Yield and Striga Resistance in Sorghum [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2003 Ten genetically diverse but homozygote sorghum cultivars that are adapted to northern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria were grown in Striga sick-field for two years.
Showemimo, FA.
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