The Center for Cover Crops Information
and Seed Exchange in Africa


Mucuna News

Mucuna News is a bulletin intended to serve as an informal forum for information exchange on issues related to food and feed uses of Mucuna, several species of which are well-known green manure/cover crops. These bulletins will be published occasionally during 2001 and 2002 by the Center for Cover Crops Information and Seed Exchange in Africa (CIEPCA), which was coordinated by Albert Eteka at the Benin station of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

Mucuna News is available on-line in pdf version (with original formatting), html version with graphics, or html without graphics (for computers that download slowly). If you do not have updated software for viewing pdf files and would like to upgrade or download Acrobat Reader, it is available free of charge from the Adobe website. (Note: Older versions of Acrobat Reader may not give optimal results). Hard copies are available from CIEPCA).



The Mucuna News is an output of a Rockefeller-funded project on "Increasing Mucuna’s Potential as a Food and Feed Crop", which arose from a workshop organized in April, 2000, by CIDICCO (the International Center for Information on Cover Crops, based in Honduras) and CIEPCA together with Judson College in Illinois, USA. This small, interdisciplinary workshop, entitled "Food and Feed From Mucuna: Current Uses and the Way Forward", brought together development practitioners, animal and food scientists, plant breeders, and researchers in toxicology and ecology in order to discuss the development of several alternate uses of Mucuna. The impetus for the workshop was the increasing awareness among diverse groups that, although Mucuna is a well-recognized manure/cover crop known for high biomass production, weed suppression, and beneficial impacts on main crop yields, farmers often require more direct benefits (such the ability to produce food or livestock feed) before adopting it.

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Internet access to MUCUNA NEWS in pdf and html formats is made available through the MOIST Group of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD).


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