Exploring Niches for Short-Season Grain Legumes in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya — Coping with the Impacts of Climate Variability

Exploring Niches for Short-Season Grain Legumes in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya — Coping with the Impacts of Climate Variability

Climate variability is the major risk to agricultural production in semi-arid agroecosystems and the key challenge to sustain farm livelihoods for the 500 million people who inhabit these areas worldwide. Short-season grain legumes have great potential to address this challenge and help to design mo...

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Main Authors: Anne Sennhenn, Donald M. G. Njarui, Brigitte L. Maass, Anthony M. Whitbread
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
APSIM
climate variability
rainfed agriculture
risk management
short-season legumes
water use efficiency
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.00699/full

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