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.
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.
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
July 22, 2024
The agriculture sector around the world has experienced profound changes in recent years.
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).
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.
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.
April 3, 2024
Climate change and land degradation adversely affect food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
April 3, 2024
Mass spectrometry-based plant metabolomics is frequently used to identify novel natural products or study the effect of specific treatments on a plant’s metabolism.
March 27, 2024
Cross-species communication, where signals are sent by one species and perceived by others, is one of the most intriguing types of communication that functionally links different species to form complex ecological networks.