Water scarcity in certain regions of sub-Saharan Africa impacts agricultural production while prolonging dry seasons, and contributing to food insecurity and malnutrition. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the nutritional yield (edible yie...

In sub-Saharan countries, male farmers are frequently seen as producers of cash crops and marketable vegetables, while female farmers are perceived as producers of food crops for home consumption. Few authors have tried to validate this perception of...

Baobab – Adansonia digitata Fact Sheet

Development of diseases in cultivated crops depends on the complex interrelationship among host, pathogen and prevailing environmental conditions. In nature, plants are rarely, if ever, subject to the influence of only one potential pathogen and this...

The objective of this study was to compare the field growth performance of Moringa oleifera and Moringa ovalifolia in semi-arid environment of central Namibia rangeland.nam

FAO, with key international and national stakeholders, is promoting a national and regional programme for RPW management in the Near East and North Africa. The programme facilitates the coordination of regional efforts to ensure an integrated and sus...

The development of market gardening is faced with many problems among which there are the nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne. The aim of this study is twofold: (a) determining the Meloidogyne species that are crowned by the perineal plates of female...

Improving Household Food and Nutrition Security in Egypt by targeting women and youth is a project that aims at assisting the Government of Egypt in establishing a food-secure environment in which women and youth have access to sufficient and diversi...