<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe"^^ . "Southern Africa smallholder farmers continue to be the most affected by the challenges\r\nof climate change and variability. The variability of climate demands the use of a\r\nvariety of agronomic strategies and crop choices. Traditional drought tolerant cereal\r\ncrops such as sorghum and millets are often chosen when drought seasons are\r\nanticipated. However, there are certain crops, originating elsewhere, that could help the\r\nsmallholder farmers increase diversity of crops that can be grown in changed climates.\r\nTrials were conducted to test a basket of known and introduced climate smart crops in\r\nthe field. The cereal crops tested were maize, sorghum, pearl and finger millet, and\r\nlegumes: tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolias), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), Bambara\r\nnut (Vigna subterranea), groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) and pigeon pea (Cajanus\r\ncajan. A second experiment was conducted to determine the effects of inorganic\r\nfertilizer and rhizobium inoculation on the growth and grain yield of field grown tepary\r\nbean. Both experiments were laid out in a randomized complete block design with three\r\nreplications. Due to drought conditions during the growing season, cereal crops could\r\nnot produce grain yield, as there was no grain filling. Despite this, cereal biomass was\r\n5t ha-1 for maize, followed by sorghum (1.3t ha-1) and millet (1.2t ha-1). Legume crops\r\nproduced grain with cowpea yielding 568.1kg ha-1 of grain, followed by tepary bean\r\n(245.9kg ha-1) and common bean (227kg ha-1). This is important for food, nutrition and\r\nhealth security of smallholder communities. Tepary bean inoculated with rhizobium\r\nand had fertilizer applied produced higher grain yield than those without fertilizer or\r\nrhizobium inoculant (P£0.05). In conclusion, resource poor farmers, affected by\r\ndrought effects of climate change, can adopt both cereals and legumes climate smart\r\ncrops, in order to create food and nutritional security. This is crucial for food and\r\nnutritional security of vulnerable households affected by climate change and variability."^^ . "2017-07" . . "17" . "3" . . "African Scholarly Science Communications Trust"^^ . . . "African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development"^^ . . . "16845374" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "O"^^ . "Jiri"^^ . "O Jiri"^^ . . "P L"^^ . "Mafongoya"^^ . "P L Mafongoya"^^ . . "P"^^ . "Chivenge"^^ . "P Chivenge"^^ . . . . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "159772-414916-1-SM.pdf"^^ . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "Climate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #10140 \n\nClimate smart crops for food and nutritional security for semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)"@en . . . "Semi-Arid Tropics"@en . . . "Food and Nutrition"@en . . . "Climate Change"@en . . . "Food Security"@en . . . "African Agriculture"@en . . . "Legume Crops"@en . . . "Southern Africa"@en . . . "Zimbabwe"@en . .