Known as poor people’s meat, these faded yellow legumes with a big black dot along the curve are ubiquitous throughout West Africa, including here in Ghana. Other days, Alidu prepares cowpea ...

Eaten by roughly 200 million Africans, predominantly in West Africa, cowpea is commonly referred to as “poor man’s meat” because of the high levels of protein that are found in cowpea’s ...

Cowpea is a legume in the dry and hot regions of the world, particularly West Africa, where it is an important source of dietary protein. However, climate change is negatively affecting crop ...

Today, as the world marks World Hunger Day 2025, we are reminded that food is not just a basic need – it is a fundamental ...

Millions of farmers in West and Central Africa could benefit from a method of storing cowpea, an African staple, after a study provided an important insight into how the method works. Cowpea is a ...

Farmers were particularly worried about the government’s expected decision to green-light a genetically modified variety of the cowpea, a staple of West African diets. Was it possible ...

The team that has developed Sampea 20-T was formed in response to requests from African cowpea breeders for a solution to the cowpea pod-borer, Maruca vitrata, a major pest of this crop in West ...

And many globally used plants were domesticated in West Africa, for example pearl millet, cowpea, African yam, fonio (an ancient grain) and African rice. Investigating the origin and development ...

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