Publications
Published Articles
FEB 2026
Couëdel, A., Falconnier, G.N., Adam, M., Cardinael, R., Six, J., Laub, M., Ruane, A.C., Boote, K., Justes, E., Smith, W.N., Whitbread, A.M., Affholder, F., Akinseye, F.M., Balkovic, J., Basso, B., Bhatia, A., Chakrabarti, B., Chikowo, R., Christina, M., Faye, B., Ferchaud, F., Folberth, C., Gaiser, T., Galdos, M., Gayler, S., Gorooei, A., Grant, B., Guibert, H., Hoogenboom, G., Kamali, B., Maureira, F., Mequanint, F., Nendel, C., Porter, C.H., Ripoche, D., Rusinamhodzi, L., Sharma, S., Singh, U., Srivastava, A., Vanlauwe, B., Versini, A., Vianna, M., Webber, H., Weber, T., Zhang, C., Corbeels, M., 2026. Beyond Climate Change: The Role of Integrated Soil Fertility Management for Sustaining Future Maize Yield in Sub-Saharan Africa. Global Change Biology. 32(2), e70720. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70720?af=R
NOV 2025
Effect of Intercropping and Mulching on Weed Composition in Agroclimatic Zones of Zimbabwe
Juliet Chengetai Murimwa
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/ioa/1157982
NOV 2025
Hardlife Chinwa, Elizabeth Ngadze, Juliet Murimwa, Kelvin Chipoyi, Mashoko Grey, Regis Chikowo, and Casper Nyaradzai Kamutando, (2025)., A Standard Area Diagram for Leaf Spots and Leaf Blights Disease Severity Assessments in Groundnuts, Plant Disease (Special Report), https://lnkd.in/euCkjaev
SEPT 2025
Bouhenache, A., Lashermes, G., Clivot, H., Recous, S., Chikowo, R., Shumba, A., Mazungunye, H., Matimba, E., Alavoine, G., Delfosse, O., Falconnier, G. N., Affholder, F., Corbeels, M., & Cardinael, R. (2025). Intra-seasonal rainfall patterns and extremes drive maize productivity and nitrogen use in sub-humid Zimbabwe. Field Crops Research, 334, 110126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.
AUG 2025
Girod, Coline; Coquereau, Adrien; Nyawasha W., Rumbidzai; Thanks, Bowha; Jahel, Camille; Leroux, Louise, 2025, “Land Use Maps of Murewha District
(Zimbabwe): Temporal Analysis from 2002 to 2023 Using Landsat Data”, https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/
Madec, Simon; Coquereau, Adrien; Girod, Coline; Leroux, Louise; Jahel, Camille, 2025, “Land cover maps for the district of Murewa in Zimbabwe, for the year 2023”, https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/
AUG 2025
Souleymane Diop, Rémi Cardinael, Ronny Lauerwald, Morgan Ferlicoq, Christian Thierfelder, Regis Chikowo, Marc Corbeels, François Affholder, Frédéric Baudron, Eric Ceschia,
Surface albedo and thermal radiation dynamics under conservation and conventional agriculture in subhumid Zimbabwe, Soil and Tillage Research, Volume 255, 2026, 106804, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2025.106804
APR 2025
Kwenda IW, Falconnier GN, Cardinael R, Affholder F, Couëdel A, Baudron F, Franke AC, Nyagumbo I, Mabasa S, de Freitas M, Pret V, Diop S, Magwaza EF, Chikowo R, 2025. Intercrop overyielding is maintained under estimated water and nitrogen stress in maize-cowpea on-farm trials in semi-arid Zimbabwe. Field Crops Research 327, 109890 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.
MAR 2025
Manyanga, M., Gérard, F., Pedzisa, T., et al., 2025. Assessing Maize Enterprise Viability among Smallholder Farmers in Murehwa District, Zimbabwe: Implications for Socioeconomic Policy. Research on World Agricultural Economy. 6(1): 639–653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/rwae.
Manyanga M, Gérard F, Pedzisa T, Jourdain D, Belard A, Hanyani-Mlambo B, Coquereau A and Affholder F (2025)
Prospects for improving the food and economic security of smallholder maize-based farming systems: a farmer
typology approach in Zimbabwe. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 9:1437865. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1437865
Valentin Pret, Gatien N. Falconnier, François Affholder, Marc Corbeels, Regis Chikowo, Katrien Descheemaeker. (2024) "Farm resilience to climatic risk – a review"
FEB 2025
Nyawasha, R.W., Falconnier, G.N., Todoroff, P., Wadoux, A.M.J.-C., Chikowo, R., Coquereau, A., Leroux, L., Jahel, C., Corbeels, M., Cardinael, R., 2025. Drivers of soil organic carbon stocks at village scale in a sub-humid region of Zimbabwe. Catena 252, 108843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
FEB 2024
Targeting smallholder farmers for climate information services adoption in Africa: A systematic literature review
https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2405-8807(24)00005-0
Rejoice S. Nyoni, Guillaume Bruelle, Regis Chikowo, Nadine Andrieu, (2024) Targeting smallholder farmers for climate information services adoption in Africa: A systematic literature review, Climate Services, Volume 34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100450.
OCT 2023
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa
Falconnier, G. N., Cardinael, R., Corbeels, M., Baudron, F., Chivenge, P., Couëdel, A., Ripoche, A., Affholder, F., Naudin, K., Benaillon, E., Rusinamhodzi, L., Leroux, L., Vanlauwe, B., & Giller, K. E. (2023). The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. Outlook on Agriculture, 00307270231199795. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270231199795
SEPT 2023
Adoption of agroecological intensification practices in Southern Africa: A scientific review
Mark Manyanga, Tarisayi Pedzisa & Benjamine Hanyani-Mlambo (2023) Adoption of agroecological intensification practices in Southern Africa: A scientific review, Cogent Food & Agriculture, 9:1, 2261838, DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2023.2261838
APR 2023
Four-component net radiometers to quantify albedo and heat fluxes in conservation agriculture
Diop, S. (2023). Four-component net radiometers to quantify albedo and heat fluxes in conservation agriculture. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4, 678. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00432-x