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Yam in West Africa : Food, Money, and More.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609174743
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Yam in West AfricaDDC classification:
  • 635.230966
LOC classification:
  • SB211
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Werner Kiene -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Yam Primer -- Chapter 2. Yam Production Contexts in Nigeria and Ghana -- Chapter 3. High Labor Cost in Yam Production -- Chapter 4. Yam Seed Technologies -- Chapter 5. The Challenge of Nematodes in the Yam Food Sector -- Chapter 6. Yam Crop Improvement Research -- Chapter 7. Prospects and Impediments to Difffusion of Hybrid Yams in Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Periphery Situation of Yam in National Food Policy Programs -- Chapter 9. Yam Stereotype as a Man's Crop -- Chapter 10. Yam Postharvest Matters -- Chapter 11. Trade in West African Yam -- Chapter 12. Fuels of Yam Consumption in West Africa -- Chapter 13. Yam in the Igbo Cultural Rite of Marriage -- Chapter 14. Synthesis -- Appendix 1. Participants in Activities that Contributed Information Reported in this Book -- Appendix 2. List of Hybrid Yams Released to Farmers in Nigeria -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Werner Kiene -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Yam Primer -- Chapter 2. Yam Production Contexts in Nigeria and Ghana -- Chapter 3. High Labor Cost in Yam Production -- Chapter 4. Yam Seed Technologies -- Chapter 5. The Challenge of Nematodes in the Yam Food Sector -- Chapter 6. Yam Crop Improvement Research -- Chapter 7. Prospects and Impediments to Difffusion of Hybrid Yams in Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Periphery Situation of Yam in National Food Policy Programs -- Chapter 9. Yam Stereotype as a Man's Crop -- Chapter 10. Yam Postharvest Matters -- Chapter 11. Trade in West African Yam -- Chapter 12. Fuels of Yam Consumption in West Africa -- Chapter 13. Yam in the Igbo Cultural Rite of Marriage -- Chapter 14. Synthesis -- Appendix 1. Participants in Activities that Contributed Information Reported in this Book -- Appendix 2. List of Hybrid Yams Released to Farmers in Nigeria -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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