legumes

ILRI News on legumes

Written by Michael Kinyua, Inot Songoyani and Prosper Massawe (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT) A farmer in Tanzania harvests maize. The beans which was intercropped with the maize will also be ready for harvest soon (photo credit: Georgina Smith/CIAT). Babati, a district in northern Tanzania, thrives on...

Africa RISING communications

ILRI News

13 Dec 2019

A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development

Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The board, directors and staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) mourn the passing of a former colleague and...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

ILRI clippings

12 Jul 2019

Inoculating legume plants with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria improves yields in Ethiopia and could save USD28 million annually in fertilizer costs

A legume farming demonstration plot by the N2Africa project in Pawe, Benshangul Gumuz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). A five-year project that promoted nitrogen fixation through the use of rhizobia bacteria in grain legumes in Ethiopia has helped participating smallholder farmers...