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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

NARDI hosts RESADE high level stakeholder meeting

19 July, 2024

NARDI hosts RESADE high level stakeholder meeting

Masego Ramolaise, a farmer in a village near Lentsweletau in southern Botswana, showing off her letrose juice.

10 July, 2024

Adding value to cooking melons in Botswana

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), in collaboration with the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI), organized a RESADE High-level stakeholder meeting in Buchanan, Liberia, from the 3rd-4th of July 2024.

04 July, 2024

CARI hosts RESADE high level stakeholder meeting

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. Photo: Michael Major for ICBA

08 May, 2024

Helping smallholders grow more and better rice in Sierra Leone

Emefa and Adjo serve sorghum couscous which has been steamed and ready to eat.

01 April, 2024

Making couscous from sorghum in Togo

Under a four-year project called “Improving Agricultural Resilience to Salinity through Development and Promotion of Pro-poor Technologies” (or RESADE), scientists have been working with different national partners since 2019 to map salt-affected areas, conduct preliminary studies and establish best practice hubs.

22 July, 2020

Helping smallholders cope with soil salinity in sub-Saharan Africa

In Liberia, the RESADE team identified lack of oversight over existing policies as some of the major problems. There is also no adequate gender focus and climate-smart agriculture program to define the role of water in poverty alleviation and food security.

29 October, 2019

Poor water management and salinity top list of farmers’ concerns in sub-Saharan Africa

Titled “Improving Agricultural Resilience to Salinity through Development and Promotion of Pro-poor Technologies” (or RESADE), the four-year project is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA).

24 April, 2019

ICBA launches major project to boost farmers’ incomes in seven sub-Saharan African countries