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Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions towards improved livelihoods
This technical paper begins with an introduction to
grain legumes and their importance in Eastern Africa,
followed by trends in production and productivity,
variety development, release and promotion.
It proposes and ...
Community-based breeding program integration in Ethiopian Universities
Community-based breeding program is an emerging and alternative genetic improvement
approach in smallholder and resource poor farming systems. The program is participatory in
nature that captures farmer’s indigenous ...
Validating the gender responsive Multi Stakeholder Framework (G+MSF) tool: a review of banana and sweet potato seed systems in northern Uganda
Recognising the need for gender-intentional seed systems research, the CGIAR Research Program on RTB cluster (CC) 2.1: “Quality seeds and access to improved varieties’’ has put together gender-responsive sets of tools ...
Understanding Cassava Dynamics in Different Development Contexts
It is presented the review of cassava dynamics in three sections. First, we illustrate global cassava trends using the IMPACT Model (Robinson et al., 2015) and address some of key findings and challenges associated with ...
A gender Analysis Perspective for Improved Livelihoods in the Karkheh River Basin
This study on gender and livelihood aims to find new ways of improving the incomes of rural households, based on the role of women in agricultural production and the division of labor in socioeconomic activities between ...
QDS of bush beans is established as a viable alternative to certified seed
In collaboration with local seed service, development partners organizations (Dos) e.g. NGOs/farmers organizations and public extension were enabled by PABRA members to select farmers who are able to produce and market ...
A gendered analysis of community profiles of target sites for small ruminant value chain interventions in Ethiopia
Community profiling was conducted to provide an in-depth gendered understanding of the characteristics of the small ruminant value chain intervention sites in Ethiopia. Gender analysis tools and participatory rural ...
Doubled Haploids for Faster and More Efficient Breeding in Cassava
To produce haploids the use of inducer lines increases the frequency of success. This is the most practical and fastest way to generate homozygous parental breeding lines to create true F1s where hybrid vigor can be clearly ...
Community of Practice Partnership (COPP) for the Application of Genomic-assisted Cassava Breeding - 2020
Technology innovations are key to increase cassava production on the continent. Genomics has a central role in crop improvement and is increasingly being used owing to the decrease in cost of technologies. Analysis of plant ...
Progress Report on Phenotyping Indigenous Tunisian Sheep Breeds for Resistance to Ticks
This is a report of the preliminary dataset on phenotyping Tunisian local sheep breeds for resistance to ticks.