July 24, 2024
Push-pull is a knowledge-intensive technology that needs a curriculum designed to guide learning at various entry points of the technology for smallholder farmers.
July 24, 2024
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is immensely proud of the ‘push–pull’ programme’s achievements.
July 24, 2024
Striga and stem borer are the major challenges to sorghum production and causing serious food security problems in Ethiopia.
July 24, 2024
Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a serious invasive pest in Africa but “Push-Pull” companion cropping can substantially reduce infestation.
July 24, 2024
Push–pull is a farming system where a cereal crop is intercropped with the legume desmodium, and the plot is surrounded with Napier or brachiaria grass for control of stemborers, fall armyworm and striga weed.
July 24, 2024
Discover how you can benefit from push-pull through the comic book.
July 23, 2024
Discover how you can benefit from push-pull through the comic book.
July 23, 2024
Over two decades ago, scientists developed a push-pull intercropping strategy that received critical acclaim for synergizing food security with ecosystem resilience in smallholder farming.
July 23, 2024
The smallholder farmers who make up 80% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face many challenges in producing adequate and reliable grain harvests on which their livelihoods depend.
July 23, 2024
Ethiopia’s economic development is based on agriculture. Accordingly, many efforts have been made to increase yield to eliminate poverty and provide food security for the estimated 90 million people living in Ethiopia in 2014, over 80% of whom are rural.
🌽 Our coordinator, Emily Poppenborg, joined the panel discussion during the event on the agroecological transition of food systems in Africa. The event focused on agroecological innovation and sustainable farming pathways for Africa. 🌿
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