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  1. Reviving soils with mucuna - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video In the coastal savanna of West Africa, farmers explain how a mucuna cover crop helped to revive their highly degraded soil, and suppress the noxious weeds Striga and Imperata. They show how to grow it to benefit your maize and cassava, and why discussing land...
    GMCC Mucuna Maize Legumes Sustainable Land M... Soil Fertility AccessAgriculture West Africa

  2. Jack Bean as an effective GMCC in East Africa

    06/02/2018 East African farmers Kaneli and Happiness Mafieare combating this soil erosion and improving moisture retention by planting Canavalia Ensiformis, known as "Jack Bean." Canavalia, is a cover crop that is highly encouraged to farmers for increasing nitrogen levels in the soil and providing shade...
    GMCC Green Manure Cover... Jackbean East Africa

  3. Best bets green manure /cover crops for drylands

    Session: Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints...
    GMCC Dryland Farming East Africa