Peanut is Kenya's second most important legume after beans, primarily grown in the Nyanza and Western regions. This study maps the peanut value chain in Kenya, aiming to identify key actors, quantify costs and value addition, and outline constraints and opportunities, with a view to upgrading...

In the Sahel region, agroforestry potentially increases crop yields, alongside restoring and retaining soils. Nonetheless, little is known about how diverse agroforestry systems perform across actual agricultural systems of smallholders in the region. We therefore investigate how smallholders'...

Market participation is both a cause and a consequence of economic development. Markets offer households the opportunity to specialize according to comparative advantage and thereby enjoy welfare gains from trade. The current literature on product marketing in Ghana is inadequate for designing...

Digital farm advisory services can be a cost-effective way to provide relevant information to smallholders in developing countries. Information provision has been shown to generate positive impacts on agricultural practices and farmers' income across various settings. We conducted a...

Rhizosphere microbial communities have a relationship with plant growth and soil fertility and play an important role in the ecosystem. Here, we investigated the effects of different fertilization on the microbial community structure in the peanut rhizosphere soil using Illumina MiSeq high...

This study aimed to evaluate the synthesis of Cationic Hemicelluloses (CH) extracted/synthesized from peanut hull residue from agroindustry and also evaluate it as a primary coagulant in a physical chemical treatment of synthetic dairy wastewater (SDW). Hemicelluloses were cationized by...

Plastic film mulching has been extensively used to improve yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of main crops in arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China. However, the plastic film residue has given rise to many problems, such as environmental pollution, land deterioration and yield...