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Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions towards improved livelihoods

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Title Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions
towards improved livelihoods
 
Creator Ojiewo, C O
Rubyogo, J C
Wesonga, J M
Bishaw, Z
Abang, M M
Gelalcha, S W
 
Subject African Agriculture
Africa
Legume Crops
East Africa
Seed Systems
 
Description Legumes are important components of sustainable
farming systems. They are useful to diversify and
intensify cropping systems as double, catch, relay
and intercrops; fix ‘free’ nitrogen to soils from the
atmosphere and improve soil health that boost cereal
crop yields; act as rotation crops for breaking disease
and pest cycles; increase and diversify smallholder
incomes (and hence buffer them from the effects
of price, pest and climate-related production
fluctuations); enhance quality of household diets
because of their higher protein and micro-nutrient
content compared with starch-based staple cereal
crops; and provide good sources of animal feed (high
protein crop residues and byproducts) and low carbon
footprint, mitigating climate change...
 
Publisher FAO
 
Date 2018
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10939/1/ca1826en.pdf
Ojiewo, C O and Rubyogo, J C and Wesonga, J M and Bishaw, Z and Abang, M M and Gelalcha, S W (2018) Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions towards improved livelihoods. Technical Report. FAO, Addis Ababa.