Multi-source spatial data-based invasion risk modeling of Striga (Striga asiatica) in Zimbabwe
GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2020 Monitoring of destructive invasive weeds such as those from the genus Striga requires accurate, near real-time predictions and integrated assessment techniques to enable better surveillance and consistent assessment initiatives.
Bester Tawona Mudereri +7 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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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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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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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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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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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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Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2011 It is well known that the parasitic weed Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze can be suppressed by Striga-tolerant sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) cultivars, Desmodium intortum (Mill.) Urb. (greanleaf desmodium), and by fertilization with nitrogen.
Carl Frederick Reinhardt +1 more
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INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR HOUSEHOLDS WITH MALNUTRITION: AN ETHIOPIAN CASE STUDY [PDF]
Many developing regions have excellent potential agricultural resources. However, historically population has become so concentrated on such small holdings that acute poverty and malnutrition now predominate.
John H. Sanders, Yigezu A. Yigezu
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Yield gains in extra-early maize cultivars of three breeding eras under multiple environments [PDF]
, 2017 Open Access JournalAvailability of extra-early maize cultivars has facilitated the expansion of maize production into savannas of West and Central Africa (WCA).
A. O. Talabi +52 more
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