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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa: Africa Connect Seminar Series
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 "Evaluation of pigeonpea - yam cropping system 
 for improved yam productivity and livelihood 
 of small holder farmers"\n
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 	Speaker: Eric Owusu 
 Danquah (Ph.D. Candidate), Dept. of Plant, 
 Soil and Microbial Sciences\n
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 	About the 
 Talk:\n
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 	Yam is a very important food security 
 crop to at least 60 million rural poor producers, 
 processors and consumers in West Africa. 
 Cultivation of yams by rural households serves 
 as food supply, income generation through 
 marketing of ware yams and production of planting 
 material to meet their own needs and 
 generate some income from the sale of surplus 
 seed yams. Despite this importance, traditional 
 yam cultivation is characterized with shifting 
 from land to land every year in search 
 of fertile lands and stakes resulting in soil 
 and land degradation. Yam production has now 
 stagnated threatening rural livelihoods and 
 urban food security. This evaluation study adopts 
 integrated soil nutrient management with 
 a leguminous shrub - pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) 
 in a pigeonpea-yam cropping system for sustainable 
 soil nutrient management for production. 
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 Sponsor's Homepage: https://aap.isp.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Eric Owusu Danquah and Isaac Osei-Bonsu\n
 Contact email: owusudan@msu.edu; oseibonsu2@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Room 303, International Center
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