Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions towards improved livelihoods
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...
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| Format: | Book biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2018
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| Subjects: | grain legumes, value chain, legumes, seed systems, agriculture, livelihoods, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98358 http://oar.icrisat.org/10939/1/ca1826en.pdf |
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