Alley Farming for Improving Small Ruminant Productivity in West Africa: ILRA's ExperiencesILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
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accessions acid soil Addis Ababa adoption of alley AFNETA Agriculture Agroforestry Alfisol alley and non-alley alley cropping alley plots animals applied as mulch Atta-Krah bush-fallow Cameroon cassava peel Cobbina continuous alley farming crop season crop yield diet discontinued divided inheritance dry season effect Ehui established evaluation fallow systems farming systems female Gliricidia sepium growth rate hedgerow prunings hedgerow species higher humid zone Ibadan ICRAF IITA ILCA ILRI increased input intake intensive feed gardens Jabbar labour lambs land and tree land tenure Leucaena and Gliricidia Leucaena leucocephala level of supplementation livestock maize maize grain yield mimosine mulch and fodder Naira nitrogen non-alley farming non-alley system on-farm research on-farm trials output Panicum period resource significantly small ruminants soil fertility soil nutrient southern Nigeria southwest Nigeria stock and flows sub-Saharan Africa Sumberg sustainable tenure status Togo tree foliage Tropical village West Africa West African Dwarf women