The food and nutrition situation in Burkina Faso, like most developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, is marked by growing food vulnerability. The majority of local dishes are being abandoned in favor of a minority ...
Before the advent of cheap, synthetic fertilizers, legumes were commonly used as green manure crops for their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen (N). A three-year study at Overton, TX examined legume integration into...
We used an ongoing long-term field trial established since 1960 in Burkina Faso, to study the microbial properties of a Ferric Lixisol under various crop management and fertilization regimes. Microbial respiration rat...
The effects of previous cowpea (Vignaunguiculata) and annual fallow on N recoveries, succeeding sorghum yields and soil properties were studied using a 5-year-old (1995-1999) field experiment at Kouar6 (11°59′ ...