Resultados de búsqueda - "DR Congo"

Expanding the application of cassava value chain technologies through UPoCA project por James, B., Bramel-Cox, P.J., Witte, E.R., Asiedu, Robert, Watson, D., Okechukwu, R.U.

“…UPoCA project covers DR Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. …”
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Unleashing the power of cassava in Africa…are we there yet? por James, B.D., Bramel-Cox, P.J., Witte, E.R., Asiedu, Robert, Watson, D., Okechukwu, R.U.

“…The UPoCA project covers DR Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania and draws on prior research results to increase on-farm cassava productivity and value adding processing for markets. …”
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Understanding the process of agricultural technology por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Merckx, Roel, Maertens, M.

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Use of DNA capture kits to collect Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum and banana bunchy top virus pathogen DNA for molecular diagnostics por Ramathani, I., Beed, Fenton D.

“…BBTV was confirmed in DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Zambia.…”
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End-of-Project report 'Broadening the scaling of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) management in East and Central Africa' por 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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Evidence for the presence of African swine fever virus in apparently healthy pigs in South-Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo por Bisimwa, P.N., Machuka, Eunice M., Githae, Dedan, Banswe, G., Amimo, Joshua O., Ongus, J.R., Masembe, C., Bishop, Richard P., Steinaa, Lucilla, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Pelle, Roger

“…Phylogenetic analyses based on partial sequences of the p72 and p54 genes revealed that all the ASFV detected belonged to genotype IX, which has previously been reported in other parts of DR Congo, and was clustered together with isolates from Kenya, Uganda and Republic of Congo. …”
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Transforming Africa’s agriculture through enhancing commercialization of agricultural research products: The case of high iron beans technology por 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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Training video on the integration of the leguminous Mucuna cover crop in coffee and banana systems in central Africa. por Ntamwira, Jules Bagula, Kitumaini Safari, Nancy, Blomme, Guy, Katera, Issa, Ocimati, Walter

“…This video captures success stories of using Mucuna as a cover crop on station and on farm in eastern DR Congo and will serve as a tool for transforming the mindset of farmers during scaling of the innovation. …”
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300,000+ African farmers overcome banana Xanthomonas wilt using Alliance-developed single diseased stem removal with other measures. por 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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Criblage de génotypes de manioc (Manihot esculenta CRANTZ) pour la résistance à la cochenille Africaine de racines et tubercules (Stictococcus vayssierei Richard) dans différentes... por Ndengo, N.E., Ki-Munseki, A.L., Hanna, R., Ngbolua, K.

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CongoFlux – The First Eddy Covariance Flux Tower in the Congo Basin por Sibret, T., Bauters, M., Bulonza, E., Lefevre, L., Cerutti, P.O., Lokonda, M., Mbifo, J., Michel, B., Verbeeck, H., Boeckx, P.

“…The so-called “CongoFlux” research site has been installed right in the heart of the Congo Basin, at the Yangambi research center in DR Congo. This introductory paper presents an elaborated description of this new greenhouse gas research infrastructure; the first of its kind in the second-largest tropical forest on Earth.…”
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Risk of banana Xanthomonas wilt spread through trade por Nakato, V., Beed, Fenton D., Ramathani, I., Rwomushana, I., Opio, F.

“…Samples of banana fingers and rachis from markets within Kampala, Uganda and at border points of Uganda with DR Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya were tested for the presence of Xcm through recovery of the bacterium onto semi-selective media. …”
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An ICT strategy based upon E-Teaching and E-Learning in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Africa por Woomer, P.L., Mulei, W., Maina, S.K.

“…Six months before the advent of the pandemic, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture initiated a pilot project, Start Them Early Program (STEP) whose goal is to reinforce pathways to careers in agriculture within secondary schools in DR Congo, Kenya, and Nigeria. The project has now been forced to rethink its approach while embracing information and communication technologies due to the school closures. …”
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Datasets from fertilized improved and local varieties of cassava grown in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo por Munyahali, W., Birindwa, D.R., Pypers, P., Swennen, R., Vanlauwe, B., Merckx, R.

“…Data on growth, yield and yield components of an improved and local variety of cassava, economic analysis, soil and weather, collected during two growing cycles of cassava in farmer's fields in the highlands of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) are presented. The data complement the recently published paper “Increased cassava growth and yields through improved variety use and fertilizer application in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo” (Munyahali et al., 2023) [1]. …”
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Attempts to identify Cassava Brown Streak Virus in western Democratic Republic of Congo por Bakelana, Z., Magembe, E., Laura, M.B., Macharia, M., Mahungu, N., Tata-Hangy, W.K., Lutete, D., Monde, G., Harvey, Jagger J.W., Ndunguru, J., Kayuki, C., Pita, J., Lema, K.M., Kanana, T.

“…Root necrosis similar to those of the cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) were observed on cassava in western provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR.Congo) in the early 2000’s. However molecular laboratory diagnosis were not able to detect any causative agent responsible for the attacks, hence, the disease related to these symptoms was named CBSD-like disease. …”
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Sensitivity and tolerance of different annual crops to different levels of banana shade and dry season weather por Blomme, Guy, Ntamwira, Jules Bagula, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Bahati, Liliane, Amini, Daniel, Safari, Nancy, Ocimati, Walter

“…This study, through extensive field experiments performed in South Kivu, DR Congo investigated the resilience of a wide range of food and forage crops to varying banana shade levels. …”
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Diversity and conservation of traditional African vegetables: Priorities for action por Zonneveld, M. van, Kindt, R., Solberg, S.Ø., N'Danikou, S., Dawson, Ian K.

“…South Sudan, Angola and DR Congo are potential areas of high species richness that require further exploration. …”
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THE 14TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL ROOT CROPS – AFRICA BRANCH (ISTRC-AB) por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…The last three were held in DR Congo (2010), Ghana (2013) and Tanzania (2017). …”
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Performance evaluation of available strains of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fed commercial and locally-made feeds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo por Yossa, Rodrigue, Basiita, R.K., Namegabe, J.M., Trinh, T.Q., Matempa, D., Manzwanzi, P., Bwamayama, L., Cole, Steven M., Matungulu, P., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Ndavi, M., Benzie, John A.H.

“…The performance of two strains of Nile tilapia (the Nyakabera and Lake Kivu) fed a commercial feed or either a fishmeal-based or a fishmeal-free feed formulated using local ingredients was evaluated for 99 days in Bukavu, eastern highlands of the DR Congo (Experiment 1). Strain × feed interaction was significant (p < 0.05) for final body weight (FBW) and condition factor (CF). …”
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Diverse Pathway Towards Inclusive Common Bean Seed Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa por Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Ouya, Fredrick

“…Zimbabwe exhibits high rates of contract arrangements (97%) and partnerships (100%), while Burundi and DR Congo show the least involvement (7% and 24%, respectively). …”
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