Sustainable resource management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cereal-grain-legume-livestock systems in the dry savanna

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 100, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 305-314

  Sanginga, N ^a   Dashiell, K E ^a   Diels, J ^a   Vanlauwe, B ^b   Lyasse, O ^a   Carsky, R J ^a   Tarawali, S ^a   Asafo Adjei, B ^a   Menkir, A ^a   Schulz, S ^a   Singh, B B ^a   Chikoye, D ^a   Keatinge, D ^a   Ortiz, R ^a  

^a Carolyn House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme TSBF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cowpea; Intensification; Maize; Natural resource management; Soybean

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; GERMPLASM; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SAVANNA; SUSTAINABILITY;

ELEUSINE; ELEUSINE CORACANA; GLYCINE MAX; STRIGA ASIATICA; STRIGA HERMONTHICA; VIGNA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0344718993     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8809(03)00188-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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