The push-pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

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.

Pest/disease control

The effect of Brachiaria rows on stem borer damage on sorghum in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia

July 23, 2024

The lepidopteron stemborer (Chilo partellus) and parasitic Striga weed (Striga hermonthica) caused major yield losses in subsistence sorghum production in the Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Push-Pull in practice

Towards further intensification of push-pull technology with agroforestry

July 23, 2024

One of the sustainable intensifications approaches to improving yields of maize, a major staple and cash crop in eastern Africa, is the push-pull system, a companion cropping system that involves intercropping maize with a forage legume (desmodium), and planting a forage grass (brachiaria) around this intercrop.

News • Pest/disease control

Evaluation of African Maize Cultivars for Resistance to Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae

July 23, 2024

The fall armyworm (FAW) has recently invaded and become an important pest of maize in Africa causing yield losses reaching up to a third of maize annual production.

Uncategorized

Perennial legume intercrops provide multiple belowground ecosystem services in smallholder farming systems

July 22, 2024

Soil degradation is a major underlying cause of poverty and malnutrition in smallholder agrarian communities across the globe.

Agricultural production system • Farming practice

Role of farmer training and personal characteristics on agripreneurship among small scale farmers in Trans-Nzoia east sub-county, Kenya

July 22, 2024

The agriculture sector around the world has experienced profound changes in recent years.

News

Assessing the Role of Market Participation in Enhancing Household Food Security among Smallholder Cereal Growers in Eastern Africa

June 11, 2024

This study investigates the interdependence between technology adoption, market participation and food and nutrition security in Eastern Africa, focusing on cereal farmers using push-pull technology (PPT).

Earth Observation

Harmonized NDVI time-series from Landsat and Sentinel-2 reveal phenological patterns of diverse, small-scale cropping systems in East Africa

May 14, 2024

Capturing the phenological responses of crops in diverse, small-scale agricultural systems is one of the most notable remote sensing research gaps in Eastern Africa.

Farming practice

Push-pull technology improves carbon stocks in rainfed smallholder agriculture in Western Kenya

April 3, 2024

Push-pull technology improves agricultural productivity. However, its long-term effect on biomass carbon and soil organic carbon (SOC) is not yet known.

Climate change

Push-pull technology enhances resilience to climate change and prevents land degradation: Perceptions of adopters in western Kenya

April 3, 2024

Climate change and land degradation adversely affect food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

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The push-pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

The effect of Brachiaria rows on stem borer damage on sorghum in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia

Towards further intensification of push-pull technology with agroforestry

Evaluation of African Maize Cultivars for Resistance to Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae

Perennial legume intercrops provide multiple belowground ecosystem services in smallholder farming systems

Role of farmer training and personal characteristics on agripreneurship among small scale farmers in Trans-Nzoia east sub-county, Kenya

Assessing the Role of Market Participation in Enhancing Household Food Security among Smallholder Cereal Growers in Eastern Africa

Harmonized NDVI time-series from Landsat and Sentinel-2 reveal phenological patterns of diverse, small-scale cropping systems in East Africa

Push-pull technology improves carbon stocks in rainfed smallholder agriculture in Western Kenya

Push-pull technology enhances resilience to climate change and prevents land degradation: Perceptions of adopters in western Kenya

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