The Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) technology has been disseminated in 30,896 villages in 10different countries in West and Central Africa from 2007 to 2012. Extension and supply chain devel-opment efforts were required to make the PICS technology available to millions of farmers and other...
Baributsa, D.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Lowenberg-Deboer, J.
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Dabiré, C.
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Moussa, B.
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Coulibaly, O.
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Baoua, I.
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[Market building for postharvest technology through largescale extension efforts]
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Market building for postharvest technology through largescale extension efforts
On-farm augmentative releases of the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor (Say) for controlling the millet head miner (MHM) Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) were tested in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from 2007 to 2009. In addition, a survey of farmers’ perceptions of insect pests, with particul...
Ba, Malick N.
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Baoua, I.
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N'Diaye, M.
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Dabiré, C.
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Sanon, A.
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Tamò, M.
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[Biological control of the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella in the Sahelian region by augmentative releases of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: effectiveness and farmers perceptions]
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Biological control of the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella in the Sahelian region by augmentative releases of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: effectiveness and farmers perceptions
Wecreated a detailed model of the Maruca vitrata (F.) and cowpea [Vigna unguiculata
(L.) Walp] system to study the possible evolution of resistance by the insect to transgenic insecticidal
cowpea, which is under development. We focused on population dynamics and genetics in a region
of west Afric...
Onstad, D.W.
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Kang, J.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Tamo, M.
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Jackai, L.E.N.
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Dabiré, C.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa]
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Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa