It is widely reported that women provide the bulk of food production labour in Africa. Since efficient targeting of improved technologies demands an understanding of who is likely to use them, and new farm technologies have often been inappropriate for women's needs, this paper presents the relat...
Enete, A.
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Nweke, F.
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Tollens, E.
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[Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA]
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Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA
This paper, based on a socio-economic survey, investigates the productivity of compound plantain production and constraints to large scale production on the basis of the compound production method. The paper shows that production under the compound system results in nearly four times as much yiel...
Nweke, F.
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Njoku, J.
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Wilson, G.
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[Productivity and limitations of plantain (Musa spp. cv AAB) production in compound gardens in southeastern Nigeria]
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Productivity and limitations of plantain (Musa spp. cv AAB) production in compound gardens in southeastern Nigeria
Mignouna, Djana B.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Akinola, Adebayo A.
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Alene, A.
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Nweke, F.
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[Factors influencing the use of selected inputs in yam production in Nigeria and Ghana]
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Factors influencing the use of selected inputs in yam production in Nigeria and Ghana
The soils of major cassava-growing areas of Nigeria were sampled at 0-20 and 20-40 depths in 1991. The objectives were to compare the nutrient levels in both cassava fields and other arable crop fields and relate their nutrient levels to possible factors that affect them. Approximately 470 sample...
Asadu, C.
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Nweke, F.
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[Impact of agroecology on soil fertility status and cassava yield in Nigeria: 1: nutrient levels in soils growing cassava]
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Impact of agroecology on soil fertility status and cassava yield in Nigeria: 1: nutrient levels in soils growing cassava
Smallholder farmers in Nigeria cultivate numerous staple crops, either as sole crops or in crop mixtures. The distribution of cassava is discussed in terms of its importance relative to eight other major staples. As a result of the criteria associated with its definition, the relative importance ...
Research in 1973 attributed large cassava root yield differences among three villages in southeast Nigeria to equally large population density differences. In 1993, the Nigerian national team of the Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa (COSCA) went back to the three villages to see whether po...
Enete, A.
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Nweke, F.
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Okorji, E.
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[Trens in food crop yields under demographic pressure in subSaharan Africa: the case of cassava in Southeast Nigeria]
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Trens in food crop yields under demographic pressure in subSaharan Africa: the case of cassava in Southeast Nigeria
Primary data collected over a wide area in Africa show that average cassava root yield is not declining as the population increases because the land is being cultivated more intensively in response to demographic pressures. Although fallow periods are becoming shorter, organic manuring, improved ...
Nweke, F.
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Spencer, D.
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[Future prospects for cassava root yield in sub Saharan Africa]
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Future prospects for cassava root yield in sub Saharan Africa