Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Effect of sowing date distributions on simulation of maize yields at regional scale – A case study in Central Ghana, West Africa

(2016) Amit Kumar Srivastava et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation

(2016) Marc Schut et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Soil sensing: A new paradigm for agriculture

(2016) Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Electronic support tools for identification and management of rice weeds in Africa for better-informed agricultural change agents

(2016) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   CAHIERS AGRICULTURES

Ridge-furrow mulching system in semiarid Kenya: A promising solution to improve soil water availability and maize productivity

(2016) Fei Mo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Exploring micro-field water-harvesting farming system in dryland wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.): An innovative management for semiarid Kenya

(2016) Jian-Yong Wang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate-smart sustainable agriculture alternative

(2016) Dawit Solomon et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Residual effects of direct application of Burkina Faso phosphate rock on rice cultivation in Ghana

(2016) Satoshi Nakamura et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and Sorghum Production Systems: Promising Options for Crop Improvement

(2016) Dorcus C. Gemenet et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Smallholder Farms and the Potential for Sustainable Intensification

(2016) Leah M. Mungai et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Electronic support tools for identification and management of rice weeds in Africa for better-informed agricultural change agents

(2016) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   CAHIERS AGRICULTURES

Future Risks of Pest Species under Changing Climatic Conditions

(2016) Lisa Biber-Freudenberger et al.   PLoS One

Land-use changes by large-scale plantations and their effects on soil organic carbon, micronutrients and bulk density: empirical evidence from Ethiopia

(2015) Maru Shete et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Crop production and soil water management in conservation agriculture, no-till, and conventional tillage systems in Malawi

(2015) Dan TerAvest et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought in sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants of adoption in eastern and southern Africa

(2015) Monica Fisher et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration Enhances Rural Livelihoods in Dryland West Africa

(2015) Peter Weston et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Climate-adapted companion cropping increases agricultural productivity in East Africa

(2015) Charles A.O. Midega et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Seed set variability under high temperatures during flowering period in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. (R.) Br.)

(2015) S.K. Gupta et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Integrated soil fertility management: from concept to practice in Eastern DR Congo

(2015) Isabel Lambrecht et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

A review of the system of rice intensification in China

(2015) Wei Wu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Determinants of adoption of climate-smart push-pull technology for enhanced food security through integrated pest management in eastern Africa

(2015) A. W. Murage et al.   Food Security

Environmental impacts and constraints associated with the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

(2015) Travis W. Reynolds et al.   Food Security

The Potential Role of Neglected and Underutilised Crop Species as Future Crops under Water Scarce Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa

(2015) Pauline Chivenge et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Beyond conservation agriculture

(2015) Ken E. Giller et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Understanding determinants of farmers’ investments in sustainable land management practices in Ethiopia: review and synthesis

(2015) Zenebe Adimassu et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Performance of a Number of NERICA Cultivars in Zanzibar, Tanzania: Yield, Yield Components and Grain Quality

(2015) Nobuhito Sekiya et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Characterization of seed potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) storage, pre-planting treatment and marketing systems in Ethiopia: The case of West-Arsi Zone

(2014) Ayalew Tewodros et al.   African Journal of Agricultural Research

Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems

(2014) Jules Pretty et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

DIVECOSYS: Bringing together researchers to design ecologically-based pest management for small-scale farming systems in West Africa

(2014) Thierry Brévault et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Physiological and biochemical characterization of NERICA-L-44: a novel source of heat tolerance at the vegetative and reproductive stages in rice

(2014) Rajeev N Bahuguna et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Epilogue: global food security, rhetoric, and the sustainable intensification debate

(2014) Thomas W Kuyper et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Climate change impacts and potential benefits of drought and heat tolerance in chickpea in South Asia and East Africa

(2013) Piara Singh et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Plant tolerance to high temperature in a changing environment: scientific fundamentals and production of heat stress-tolerant crops

(2013) Craita E. Bita et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa

(2012) Dominique Hounkonnou et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

A Review on the Challenges for Increased Production of Castor

(2012) Liv S. Severino et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

Comment to ‘The System of Rice Intensification: Time for an empirical turn’, [NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 57 (2011) 217–224]

(2012) N. Uphoff   NJAS-WAGENINGEN JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES

Reply to Comment to: ‘The System of Rice Intensification: Time for an empirical turn’, by D. Glover

(2012) D. Glover   NJAS-WAGENINGEN JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES

The Need for Agro-Allied Industries to Promote Food Security by Value Addition to Indigenous African Food Crops

(2012) Dele Raheem   OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE

Increasing Food Production in Africa by Boosting the Productivity of Understudied Crops

(2012) Zerihun Tadele et al.   Agronomy-Basel

The Emergence of Ug99 Races of the Stem Rust Fungus is a Threat to World Wheat Production

(2011) Ravi P. Singh et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Rice yields and yield gaps in Southeast Asia: Past trends and future outlook

(2011) Alice G. Laborte et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Ideotype breeding for submergence tolerance and cooking quality by marker-assisted selection in rice

(2011) J. Jantaboon et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Quantifying the yield gap in wheat–maize cropping systems of the Hebei Plain, China

(2011) Wei-li Liang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Effects of biochar amendment on soil quality, crop yield and greenhouse gas emission in a Chinese rice paddy: A field study of 2 consecutive rice growing cycles

(2011) Afeng Zhang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

An African success: the case of conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe

(2011) Lungowe Sepo Marongwe et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Sustainable intensification in African agriculture

(2011) Jules Pretty et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Genetic and Molecular Insights into the Enhancement of Rice Yield Potential

(2011) Jong-Seong Jeon et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT BIOLOGY

The System of Rice Intensification: Time for an empirical turn

(2011) D. Glover   NJAS-WAGENINGEN JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES

Antiproliferative potential and DNA scission inhibitory activity of phenolics from whole millet grains

(2011) Anoma Chandrasekara et al.   Journal of Functional Foods

The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis

(2010) Kathleen Neumann et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Optimization of source–sink dynamics in plant growth for ideotype breeding: A case study on maize

(2010) Rui Qi et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

The potential contribution of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) germplasm to drought tolerance of cultivated barley (H. vulgare ssp. vulgare)

(2010) B. Lakew et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?

(2010) Rachel Licker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency

(2010) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Raising yield potential of wheat. I. Overview of a consortium approach and breeding strategies

(2010) Matthew Reynolds et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Raising yield potential of wheat. III. Optimizing partitioning to grain while maintaining lodging resistance

(2010) M. J. Foulkes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Underexploited African Grain Crops: A Nutritional Resource

(2010) Jed W. Fahey   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Integrated Soil Fertility Management

(2010) B. Vanlauwe et al.   OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE

African Green Revolution Needn't Be a Mirage

(2010) G. Ejeta   SCIENCE

Ideotype root architecture for efficient nitrogen acquisition by maize in intensive cropping systems

(2010) GuoHua Mi et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Getting the focus right: production constraints for six major food crops in Asian and African farming systems

(2010) Stephen R. Waddington et al.   Food Security

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

(2009) David B. Lobell et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Yield potential and radiation use efficiency of “super” hybrid rice grown under subtropical conditions

(2009) Yunbo Zhang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Closing the cassava yield gap: An analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa

(2009) A.M. Fermont et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Effective use of water (EUW) and not water-use efficiency (WUE) is the target of crop yield improvement under drought stress

(2009) A. Blum   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view

(2009) Ken E. Giller et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Closing the gap between actual and potential yield of rainfed wheat. The impacts of environment, management and cultivar

(2009) W.K. Anderson   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Raising yield potential in wheat

(2009) Matthew Reynolds et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution

(2009) Glenn Denning et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Spring Cereals: From Dynamic Ideotypes to Cultivars in Northern Latitudes

(2008) P. MÄKELÄ et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCE

Assessing the impact of NERICA on income and poverty in central and western Uganda

(2008) Yoko Kijima et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Wheat productivity in the Mediterranean Ebro Valley: Analyzing the gap between attainable and potential yield with a simulation model

(2008) L. Gabriela Abeledo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Progress in ideotype breeding to increase rice yield potential

(2008) Shaobing Peng et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Tef in the diet of celiac patients in The Netherlands

(2008) Erica Hopman et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Integrated pest management: the push-pull approach for controlling insect pests and weeds of cereals, and its potential for other agricultural systems including animal husbandry

(2007) A. Hassanali et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES