Search Results - "Burundi"

First report of Rice yellow mottle virus on rice in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Hubert, J.G., Pinel Galzi, A., Dibwe, D., Cinyabuguma, E., Kaboré, A., Fargette, D., Silué, D., Hébrard, E., Séré, Y.

“…Although the virus was detected in Cameroon, Chad, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda (2,3), RYMV has never been described in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). …”
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Performances de transfert des paquets technologiques en milieu rural: cas des ONGs locales by Manirakiza, D., Hatungimana, H., Njukwe, E.

“…Malgre la dependance du Burundi au sectcur agri cole, I' agriculture ne s 'es! …”
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End-of-Project report 'Broadening the scaling of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) management in East and Central Africa' by Rietveld, Anne M.

“…Project start and end date: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 NCE for Rwanda to 31-03-2020 Project leader: Boudy van Schagen / Anne Rietveld Project lead organization: Bioversity International Partners: National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB), Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), Inspection Provinciale de l'Agriculture, Pêche et Elévage (IPAPEL), DPEA Country(ies) of intervention: Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo Total budget: $563.474 Total co-investment: $133.527 and in kind…”
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Measuring food policy research capacity: Indicators and Typologies by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…Our Food Policy Research Capacity Index, constructed using measures of human capacity (PhD full-time equivalent researchers per million rural residents), human capacity productivity (publications per PhD full-time equivalent researcher), and strength of institutions (the government effectiveness pillar of the Worldwide Governance Indicators), showed substantial variation across countries, with the Republic of South Africa, Colombia, and Ghana scored far higher than countries with similarly sized rural populations such as Liberia, Laos, Burundi, and Afghanistan.…”
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Poverty reduction in a refugee-hosting economy: A natural experiment by Maystadt, Jean-François

“…Large population inflows from Burundi and Rwanda have improved the welfare of the hosting population, particularly for the poor. …”
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Improving technology delivery mechanisms: Lessons from bean seed systems research in eastern and central Africa by David, S., Sperling, L.

“…Based on bean seed systems research in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it shows four commonly-held basic assumptions to be false, namely that: first, small-scale farmers do not buy bean seed; they mainly rely on their own stocks or obtain seed from other farmers; second, that small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy seed of newly introduced bean varieties or will not risk it; third, that farmer seed networks function efficiently in varietal diffusion; and lastly, that a good variety will sell itself. …”
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Synthèse du séminaire de planification de la phase III du Programme Régional pour l`Amélioration du Haricot dans la Région des Grands Lacs, Kigufi, 7-11 mars 1989 by Scheidegger, Urs C.

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Results of the regional nursery for the evaluation of resistance, 1988 by Trutmann, P., Kayitare, J, Mukishi, P, Ntahimpera, N, Perreaux, D

“…Best sources of resistance in the Great Lakes Region were evaluated for stability of resistance and multi-disease resistance at four locations in Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire. Some anthracnose, Angular leaf spot and sources were found resistant at all sites. …”
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Banana sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Eastern Africa Grain Council

“…Despite high production levels in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (mainly for local consumption) and a well established export market in Dominican Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon (mainly to the EU market), the trade in dessert bananas is still dominated by Latin America. …”
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The BecA ILRI Hub Data Management workshop, 5–16 June 2017 by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The workshop was attended by twenty participants from national agricultural research systems (NARS) in nine African countries—Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda—and facilitated by trainers from Earlham Institute, UK; Fathom Labs, Kenya; and Ohio State University, USA as well as bioinformatics research associates from the BecA-ILRI Hub. …”
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Plant pathology activities supported by CIALCA by Beed, Fenton D., Fiaboe, K.K.M., Boa, E., Smith, J.

“…The request for this training was initiated by L’Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi(ISABU), who invited IITA to provide tuition and materials for the production and use of semiselectivemedia for banana Xanthomonas wilt (*see box below). …”
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Power, policy and the Prunus africana bark trade, 1972-2015 by Cunningham, A.B., Anoncho, V.F., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…Despite the need to conserve genetically and chemically diverse P. africana, wild populations are vulnerable, even in several “protected areas” in Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the forest reserves of Madagascar. …”
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Capitalizing CIALCA’s 15 years of multi-actor, multi-stakeholder, actionable and adaptive research support for inclusive and sustainable knowledge ecosystems in the Great Lakes Reg... by Sartas, Murat, Remans, Roseline, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…It has been generating information and scientific and practical knowledge about different parts of the agricultural sectors in Burundi, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda and to a lesser extent in Uganda and Tanzania. …”
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Distribution of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. causing grain and sheath discoloration of rice in Latin America by Zeigler, Robert S., Aricapa, María Girlena, Hoyos, E.

“…Pathogenic fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. were isolated from discolored rice seed and flag-leaf sheath samples received from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Surinam, and Uruguay. …”
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The potential impact of orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes on vitamin A intake in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Low, Jan W., Walker, T., Hijmans R.J.

“…The majority of children in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda would benefit, as would about half of the children in Tanzania. …”
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Transforming Africa’s agriculture through enhancing commercialization of agricultural research products: The case of high iron beans technology by Mabeya, Justin, Kamanda, Josey, Onyango, Patricia, Eshetu, Samson, Bheenick, Krishan, Munoko, Karen, Abugri, Benjamin

“…Besides increasing productivity and creating access to seeds, the project using the “Commodity Corridor Approach” works at enhancing business opportunities and investments for the youth through inputs distribution and access to markets and value addition for grain. Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe are the target countries for large scale deployment of the HIB technologies.…”
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Improving food security, nutrition, incomes, natural resource base, and gender equity for better livelihoods of smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa - Seven Years of Impact: 2015–202... by Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance

“…This project applied the PABRA model with a special focus on Burundi and Zimbabwe.…”
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A review of goat reproduction in East and Horn of Africa by Rouatbi, Mariem, Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Dione, Michel, Zannou, Olivier, Tebourbi, Ons, Idoudi, Zied, Rischkowsky, Barbara, Rekik, Mourad

“…This working paper attempts to review the male and female reproductive characteristics of goats in 11 countries of East and Horn of Africa (Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda), and to summarize studies that have looked at the improvement of reproductive performance of goats, and applications of reproductive biotechnologies, such as artificial insemination and embryo transfer. …”
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More fruit diversity for food security by Carpentier, Sebastien, Machida, Lewis, Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick, Van Gils, Daan

“…Banana (Matooke) is a staple crop in Uganda and the east and central African region (Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo). …”
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300,000+ African farmers overcome banana Xanthomonas wilt using Alliance-developed single diseased stem removal with other measures. by Blomme, Guy, Ocimati, Walter, Kikulwe, Enoch, Johnson, Vincent

“…SDSR has been adopted by > 300,000 banana farmers on >100,000 ha of bananas in Burundi, eastern DR Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, providing 96% recovery in control costs and reducing BXW incidence to below 1% within 10 months, compared to traditional methods [2,3,4,5].…”
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