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Terra-i+ website: Satellite based solution for Agroforestry Supply Chain Sustainability (https://www.terra-iplus.org/)

december, 2022
Global

Terra-i+ is a website that uses remote sensing technology to help supplier-sourced agribusinesses monitor and report on geospatial data for purpose of EU Deforestation Regulation compliance, certification management, and carbon project management.
Our vision is to enable inclusive approaches to stop deforestation and implement innovative climate action in the supply chain, by closing the geospatial and carbon data gaps, and lowering the capacity barrier to use geospatial data in a simple-to-use platform.

IITA’s social science and agribusiness research for development: compendium of research highlights 1967–2022

december, 2022
Global

Background
The social science and agribusiness research program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has supported the Institute’s research and delivery efforts since 1967. This Compendium highlights the main achievements of IITA’s social science and agribusiness research over the 55 years from 1967 to 2022.
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Sorghum Crop Husbandry

december, 2022
Global

This brochure is a guide for effective sorghum crop management, covering crucial topics such as land preparation, optimal sowing and seeding rates, fertilizer application, thinning and weed management. It highlights the importance of pest management, specifically addressing issues related to shoot fly, stem borer and bird control. Additionally, the brochure offers valuable insights into proper harvesting and post-harvest handling to alleviate storage pest risks.

Greengram Crop Husbandry

december, 2022
Global

This brochure is a guide to cultivation of green gram. It provides the ideal climatic conditions for cultivation of the crop, covering aspects such as land preparation, seed rate, sowing, weed control, optimal fertilizer application and harvesting. It provides insights into managing common insect pests and diseases. Emphasizing integrated pest management as an effective environment sensitive approach to pest management, the brochure provides guidance on application of pesticides.

PROTOCOLS FOR OND (Short Rains) 2023 Growing Season

december, 2022
Global

A protocol was developed to establish AICCRA's on-farm demonstration plots for the short rains season of October-November-December 2023 in Makueni, Kitui and Taita Taveta Counties. This protocol outlines the specific roles and responsibilities of extension officers and lead farmers, covering various activities from land preparation to harvesting. It employs a randomized block design, integrating conservation agriculture and conventional tillage systems, with both sole cropping and intercropping of legumes and cereals.

Pearl Millet Crop Husbandry

december, 2022
Global

This brochure is a guide to the cultivation of pearl millet, covering crucial aspects such as ideal climatic conditions, land preparation, optimal fertilizer and manure application, weed management, proper harvesting and post-harvest handling. It further delves into the nuances of pest and disease management, specifically addressing concerns like head mold from various fungi, stem borers, African ballworm and challenges posed by birds and Striga weeds.

Pigeonpea Crop Husbandry

december, 2022
Global

This brochure is a guide to cultivating pigeonpea, covering essential aspects such as land preparation, seed rate, sowing, weed control, optimal fertilizer application and harvesting. It provides insights into managing insect pests like pod borers, pod fly, pod-sucking bugs, blister beetles and bruchids. Additionally, it addresses the control of fungal diseases like Fusarium wilt, emphasizing practices such as intercropping and crop rotation for disease prevention.

Agriculture

december, 2022
Global

The Breakthrough Agenda was launched by 45 world leaders at COP 26 and is a commitment to work together this decade to accelerate innovation and deployment of clean technologies, making them accessible and affordable for all this decade. To kick-start this Agenda, countries endorsed Breakthrough goals to make clean technologies and sustainable practices more affordable, accessible and attractive than their alternatives by 2030 in the power, road transport, steel, hydrogen and agriculture sectors.

Gender differentiated adaptation strategies considering climate risk perceptions, impacts and socio-technical conditions in Senegal’s dry regions

december, 2022
India

This study analyses the gender-differentiated farmers’ perception of climate risk and its impact, access to climate information, and adaptation strategies with the aim to develop gender responsive climate adaptation pathways in Senegal’s dry regions. Study used data collected from 514 farm households through primary survey between May and June 2022 covering Kaffrine, Louga, and Thies sub-regions and multiple communes, including 5% women headed households and 12% women respondents.

Ghana cereal-legume agronomy scaling and acceleration platform (Gh-CerLeg-GAIP)

december, 2022
Ghana

The EiA 2030 Initiative aims to deliver agronomic gain at scale for sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in the global south, co-created by CGIAR centers and strategic scaling partners from the public and private sectors. The Cereal-Legume Agronomy Scaling and Acceleration Platform (GH-CerLeg-GAIP) initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Workshop was organized for the EiA 2030 Northern Ghana Soybean and Maize Agronomy Platform in Tamale on 15-17 August 2023 at Mariam Hotel, Tamale.