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Wheat production and breeding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and opportunities in the face of climate change
Purpose – This paper aims to review the current status of wheat production, farming systems, production constraints and wheat demand-supply chain analysis; the role of international and national breeding programs and their ...
2018 Technical Report - TAAT - Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation
2018 Technical Report
Seeding eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
Improved maize seed is instrumental to deliver an Asian-style ‘green revolution’ for Africa. The paper reviews
and makes a comparative analysis of the maize (corn) seed sector and its evolution in Kenya, Tanzania,
Uganda ...
2017 - 2018 Technical Report - More fruit for food security: developing climate-smart bananas for the African Great Lakes region
The overarching goal of the project is to identify drought-tolerant banana cultivars to help close the yield gap in drought-prone areas. This project focus on the African Great Lakes region, which is one of the poorest ...
Restoration of Degraded Land for Food Security and Poverty Reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: Taking Successes in Land Restoration to Scale: ICARDA Annual Technical Report (January - December 2017)
Technical report for the project Restoration of Degraded Land for Food Security and Poverty Reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: Taking Successes in Land Restoration to Scale funded by IFAD and implemented by ICRAF ...
Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction
This paper employs the concepts of gender norms and agency to advance understanding of
inclusive agricultural innovation processes and their contributions to empowerment and poverty
reduction at the village level. We present ...
Sorghum and millets grain quality analysis and variety field evaluation
The implementation of SOMNI Project Year 2 (PY2) activities progressed well in the 8 target counties in Kenya and 9 districts in Tanzania. The implementation was in partnership with the County and District ministries of ...
Mid-term review inception report: Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
This report is the results of the mid-term review for the EU-IFAD project "Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale" ...