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Report of the Data Management Session 2020 RTBFoods Annual Meeting Kampala, Uganda, February 2020
The data management and ontology team was represented by Vilma Hualla (CIP), Reuben
Saalhi (CIP), Pricilla Marimo (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Lukas Mueller (BTI) and Elizabeth
Arnaud (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT). Afola Agbona ...
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 ...
2017 Technical Report - Novel approaches to the improvement of banana production in Eastern Africa: the application of biotechnological methodologies -- Phase II
Annual Technical Report 2017 - Novel approaches to the improvement of banana production in Eastern Africa: the application of biotechnological methodologies -- Phase II
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 ...
More fruit for food security: developing climate-smart bananas for the African Great Lakes region
To support this research, we rely on Bioversity International’s Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC), hosted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven that houses germplasm samples representing more than ...
Modeling for Effective Crop Disease Control: A Case Study for Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in Africa
A fungal disease, (banana) Xanthomonas wilt (XW) is spreading from Eastern Africa to the rest of the continent, endangering the principal source of food and income for a hundred million people. The only measures that are ...
The Culture of Banana Cultivation: Towards a Better Understanding of the Banana Seed System in Central Uganda
Banana is one of the most important staple crops in Central Uganda. In central Uganda most of the banana varieties cultivated, belong to the East African Highland Bananas (EAHB) which include food (Matooke) and beer (Mbidde) ...
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 ...