International Day of Forests highlights the vital role of forests in food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity ...

Despite the controversies generated by those who opposed the genetically modified Pod Borer Resistant cowpea, Bt. Cotton and the Tela maize, farmers who cultivated and consumed the crops in the last ...

Through agroecological practices, organic waste can be converted into fertilisers that enhance the micronutrient content of ...

Beans, lentils, soybeans, groundnut and others… legumes include a vast diversity of crop species. In several African ...

For residents of Kibera, one of Nairobi's largest informal settlements, access to nutritious food is often scarce. School ...

A student eating cowpea and matumbo in Kenya.

Coinciding with International School Meals Day (13 March), a new case study from one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements shows that introducing biodiversity - including often overlooked ...

The National Executive Council of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN) has approved the nomination of ...

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2001). Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is a legume adapted to drought stress (Franke et al., 2018) that is frequently used in intercropping systems with maize (Zea mays L.), shorghum (Sorghum ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is a very important crop to the agricultural systems in the Brazilian northeastern, mainly those family-based farming systems. The cowpea genotypes, generally, can ...