Farmers increased their incomes by planting pulses on land that was often left idle after the cereal harvest. A rhizobium bacteria was isolated that helps pulses fix nitrogen from the air and improves the extremely degraded Ethiopian soil.
The project aimed to improve food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia through scaling up of pulse innovations.
This report contains thirteen manuscripts which were prepared under the guidance of workshop trainers on scientific writing, covering research design, methods of data analysis, sampling procedures, discussion, and results, as well as proper citati
This report profiles a Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) project where researchers have developed soil-building pulse crops (chickpeas, lentils, faba beans, and snap beans) and their adoption in poor regions.
This study contributes to the understanding of the genetic architecture of tuber sugar contents and frying color at harvest in Group Phureja.
This poster and project brief visually describes the interacting project components working to improve food security of indigenous communities through development of potato cultivars with higher yield and nutritional qualities.
Potato production represents the main economic activity in the Nariño region of Colombia, especially with smallholder farmers.
Participatory research by native farming communities and researchers led to production and selection of three new yellow potato cultivars with higher yield and improved nutritional qualities.
In addition to improved nutritional content, the new potato varieties were found to be resistant to late blight disease, and with a higher yield; farmers incomes show increases of 18%.