{"id":1720,"date":"2020-10-02T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:43:11","slug":"cereal-cowpea-intercropping-for-sustainable-intensification-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2020\/10\/02\/cereal-cowpea-intercropping-for-sustainable-intensification-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cereal-cowpea intercropping for sustainable intensification in sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1721\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1721 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/CIMMYT-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/CIMMYT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/CIMMYT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/CIMMYT-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/CIMMYT.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright CIMMYT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Intercropping is a common sustainable practice that improves land productivity in smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-020-00629-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Namatsheve et al.<\/a> reviewed the main cereal-cowpea intercropping systems, comprising maize, sorghum, and pearl millet. Intercropping increased land productivity by 25-40% compared to monocropping systems, with cowpea intercropped being able to contribute significant amounts of nitrogen to the system. The authors suggest several ways to improve these systems.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-020-00629-0'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intercropping is a common sustainable practice that improves land productivity in smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. Namatsheve et al. reviewed the main cereal-cowpea intercropping systems, comprising maize, sorghum, and pearl millet. Intercropping increased land productivity by 25-40% compared to monocropping systems, with cowpea intercropped being able to contribute significant amounts of nitrogen to the system. &#8230; <a title=\"Cereal-cowpea intercropping for sustainable intensification in sub-Saharan Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2020\/10\/02\/cereal-cowpea-intercropping-for-sustainable-intensification-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cereal-cowpea intercropping for sustainable intensification in sub-Saharan Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercropping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}