Groundnuts

Brief, Crop-Livestock, Ghana, Groundnuts, IITA, Intensification, West Africa

BRIEF FOCUS: Optimal spacing for groundnuts in smallholder farming systems

IIncreasing the planting density for groundnut generates multiple benefits by boosting yields of grain and fodder per unit area. It enhances soil fertility, improves water retention, and prevents weed growth, thereby raising farmers’ food security and incomes.

By Jonathan Odhong OnJune 9, 2021

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Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Groundnuts, ILRI, Intensification, Malawi, MSU, Presentation, Southern Africa

Sustainable intensification: Is a systems perspective essential for integrated crop-livestock systems?

Intensification of production can take many forms, for example, the one that underpinned the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s helped humanity keep food production at pace with population growth. However, the present context has changed and ensuring sustainability is ...

By Africa RISING communications OnJanuary 16, 2020

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CIMMYT, Climate change, Conservation agriculture, Crop Residues, Groundnuts, Intensification, Malawi, Pigeonpea, Southern Africa

Pulses, cobs and a healthy soil prove the success of a rural innovator

Long-term research on climate-smart agriculture in Malawi has improved the productivity, resilience and prospects of Mary Twaya, a single mother of three.

By Shiela Chikulo (CIMMYT) & Jerome Bossuet (CIMMYT) OnOctober 20, 2019

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Aflasafe products tested in Ghana for aflatoxin control in maize and groundnut

With support from the Africa RISING project, a management strategy using biocontrol products containing native atoxigenic A. flavus fungi to reduce crop aflatoxin content has been developed for use in Ghana by IITA and partners. When products are applied at the ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnJune 5, 2017

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Boosting land productivity using ‘doubled-up’ legume intercropping in Malawi

This evidence brief explains how Africa RISING is using an intercropping system known as 'doubled-up' legume technology using two complimentary grain legumes. Groundnut–pigeon pea intercropping is the most successful doubled-up system thanks to the two crops’ contrasting structures and maturity dates. ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnMay 24, 2017

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Doubled-up legume technologies in conservation agriculture show potential for scale up in Zambia

The doubled-up legume system in conservation agriculture is premised on the belief that while farmers will be in a position to get the usual benefits of the doubled-up legumes (‘double’ the grain output per farm, hence more food and also ‘double’ ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnMay 18, 2017

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Groundnut in Malawi: The cash ‘cow’ and butter that nourishes families

A newly published research brief by Africa RISING offers tips on how farmers can get more yields when they grow groundnuts.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 30, 2015

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