Resources Tagged: West Africa
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2000-01-01 This publication focuses on the potential of cover crops to maintain and improve soil fertility in SSA. Often in isolation, African researchers have experimented with cover cropping, but the results have not been readily accessible to colleagues and farmers. This book documents past experience...
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1988-01-19 Farm management is the study and application of the principles of economics, management, and agriculture to farm production within a particular environment. A farm management text written for an African audience, therefore, includes management and economic principles and applications from the...
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2023-07-04 ECHO West Africa staff traveled toFoumbot, Cameroon to train from May 22 to 24.The training equipped 70 participants made up of 35 men and 35 women. The following themes were the subject of the work of the said training: the major challenges of agriculture and possible solutions, the method of...
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ASHC defines integrated soil fertility management or ISFM as : "A set of soil fertility management practices that necessarily include the use of fertilizer, organic inputs and improved germplasm combined with the knowledge on how to adapt these practices to local conditions, aiming at optimizing...
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2025-02-05 The 10-day liquid fertilizer, also known as ‘protective fertilizer,’ is a highly effective, multi-advantage organic liquid soil amendment. The rapid liquid protective fertilizer is the product of the biological decomposition of a mixture of organic matter, animal excrement, sugar source, and...
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- Ahouangan, Bidossessi & Koura, Bossima Ivan & Sèwadé, Clément & Toyi, Mreille & Lesse, Paolo & Marcel, Houinato. (2021). Utilization of plant species in mangrove swamp: ruminant herders’ perception of treats and strategies for mangrove sustainable restoration in Benin...
- 2025-09-03 This series aims to serve the working groupthat ECHO and network members in Central Africa have joined to advance sustainable agriculture and agroecosystem strategiesfor smallholder farmers in practicalways. All are welcome to attend sessions thatare pertinent to your work. Topics of the series...
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Review by Robert Walle The success of the Millenium Development Goals depends on coordinated efforts by NGOs and governments working together. Development efforts with the best of inte ntions fail when implementers try to replace local knowledge and experience with external knowledge systems....
- 2026-01-20 Farming is often perceived as a dirty, lowly, and undesirable job. The Faith and Farming programme seeks to encourage farmers by highlighting and learning from the many farmers in scripture. We learn about farming through our own experiences and by talking to farmers, so that we can provide...