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Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1982/83
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
Business skills training guide for potato farmer organizations and cooperatives: A guide for business skills and enterprise development
This training guide was developed by the potato component of the Accelerated Value Chain Development
(AVCD) program with contributions from Edward Mwakio, a business skills consultant, and from county
agribusiness ...
Conduct Participatory Variety Selection (PVS) trials of promising varieties across target agroecologies in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya
PVS trials were established and evaluated in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. In Tanzania for example, six varieties advanced from HOPE 1 were evaluated in 4 districts, each district with 15 trials. All the six candidate ...
Screening of Rwandan and Kenyan potato varieties to predominant strains of Ralstonia solanacearum species complex of Rwanda
Bacterial wilt (BW), caused by Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC), leads to
substantial potato yield losses in Rwanda. Studies were conducted to test the
pathogenicity of predominant RSSC phylotypes on six ...
Pest risk analysis on Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, causative organism of Xanthomonas wilt on banana, on plants-for-planting
Recognising that Xanthomas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm), causal agent of Xanthomons wilt (Xw) of banana, is endemic to the Great Lakes region, the Pest Risk Analysis(PRA) considers the justification for implementing ...
Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies
worldwide. But they operate in radically different ways. In principle, these could offer complementary or
substitute means of ...
What role for legumes in sustainable intensification? – case studies in Western Kenya and Northern Ghana for PROIntensAfrica
N2Africa was selected as a case study within the PROIntensAfrica initiative. In this case study, N2Africa focused on the potential role of legumes in sustainable intensification. The case study was conducted in two of the ...
Generation of genome edited banana by knocking out of pathogen susceptibility genes
Targeted genome-editing technology such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas9) can be used efficiently to induce targeted mutations in the genomes of many plants ...
Outcome brief: 6 years of AVCD interventions in Kenya through the Accelerated Value Chain Development Program
The AVCD potato project supported the integration of the private and public sectors in new potato value chains in Kenya that are led by farmers societies in the potato growing counties, generating 33,977,789 USD in sales.
Per ...
Business skills training guide for potato farmer producer organizations/cooperatives
This training guide was developed by the Potato Component of the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program with contribution from Edward Mwakio, a Business Skills Consultant and County Agribusiness Development O ...