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Beyond its nutritional value, cowpea plays a vital role in soil health and sustainability. As a leguminous crop, it naturally fixes nitrogen from the air, enriching the soil and enhancing fertility—allowing it to support healthier plant growth and improve overall crop yields.

14 April 2025

From Fields to Bakeries: How Liberian Farmers Are Transforming Cowpeas into Profits

Members of the Jahaur Yanpi Cooperative show the groundnuts, millets, cowpea and maize they will use to make a legume-cereal based complementary porridge.

31 October 2024

Adding value to local crops in The Gambia

Ms. Aku Tokpu, a farmer in the village of Atti-Apédokoè in Togo, holds a maize stalk which she will use as an ingredient of biochar.

12 August 2024

Smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa learn biochar production to boost soil health

Lerotse juice ready for drinking.

10 July 2024

Adding value to cooking melons in Botswana

Members of various cooperatives from Rokupr are gathered to demonstrate how they have learned to transplant rice in straight rows in a rice paddy on the farm of the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute.

08 May 2024

Helping smallholders grow more and better rice in Sierra Leone

Emefa and Adjo sprinkle the sorghum flour with water and then roll it with their hands to form small pellets. Any pellets that are too small to be finished, granules of couscous fall through the sieve and are again rolled and sprinkled with dry sorghum and rolled into pellets.

01 April 2024

Making couscous from sorghum in Togo

25 November 2021

Solar-powered small-scale irrigation can boost food security in sub-Saharan Africa - study

20 April 2021

Helping farmers earn more from salt-affected land, water resources

15 April 2021

ICBA’s quinoa varieties show promise in Morocco - study

20 February 2021

Helping Tunisian youth create agri-startups

25 December 2020

Harnessing the power of online learning

20 December 2020

Emirates Soil Museum grows into a hub of education on sustainable development

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