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Taro leaf blight - A threat to global food security by Singh, D., Jackson, G., Hunter, D., Fullerton, R., Lebot, V., Taylor, M., Iosefa, T., Okpul, T., Tyson, J.

“…Serious outbreaks of taro leaf blight in Samoa in 1993 and in the last few years in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria continue to demonstrate the devastating impact of this disease on the livelihoods and food security of small farmers and rural communities dependent on the crop. …”
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A comparative socio-economic analysis of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa by Xenarios, Stefanos, Eguavoen, I., McCartney, Matthew P.

“…The method was tested in six case studies in Ethiopia and Ghana where representative small and large water storage types of Sub-Saharan Africa (small dams, large dams, wells, river diversion, ponds and soil moisture) were assessed in comparison to each other and then evaluated with the help of ethnographic findings.…”
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Challenges and opportunities for recycling excreta for peri-urban agriculture in urbanising countries by Cofie, Olufunke O., Rooijen, Daniel J. van, Nikiema, Josiane

“…The paper concludes with a description of successful recycling options that can contribute to improving farm productivity, using evidence from Ghana.…”
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Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities by Jost, Christine, Kyazze, Florence Birungi, Naab, Jesse B., Neelormi, S, Kinyangi, James, Zougmoré, Robert B., Aggarwal, Pramod K., Bhatta, Gopal Datt, Chaudhury, M., Tapio-Bistrom, M.L., Nelson, S., Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. …”
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AMMI and GGE biplot analysis of root yield performance of cassava genotypes in the forest and coastal ecologies by Agyeman, A., Parkes, Elizabeth Y., Peprah, B.B.

“…T en (10) cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) genotypes including two local checks were e valuated across six (6) environments in Southern Ghana . The experimental layout was a randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Characterization of cucumber mosaic virus isolated from yam (Dioscorea spp.) in West Africa by Eni, A., Kumar, P. Lava, Asiedu, Robert, Alabi, O.J., Naidu, R., Hughes, J., Rey, M.E.C.

“…In 2008, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), one of the most economically important plant viruses was detected in yam fields in Ghana, Benin and Togo, three of the five topmost yam producing countries in the world. …”
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Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services by Adebayo, K., Abayomi, L., Abass, A., Dziedzoave, N.T., Forsythe, L., Hillocks, R.J., Gensi, R., Gibson, R., Graffham, A.J., Ilona, Paul, Kleih, Uli K., Lamboll, R.I., Mahende, G., Martin, A.M., Onumah, G.E., Orr, A.W., Posthumus, Helena, Sanni, Lateef O., Sandifolo, V.S., Westby, Andrew

“…Based on the premise that smallholders often get excludedas markets become more commercial, this paper draws lessons from the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project by exploring the main issues and challenges facing extension service partners in five African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Ugandaand Malawi). These lessons include issues around competiveness in the supply of raw material, assisting smallholders to produce value-added products competitively, working with a range of partners at different stages in the value chain to take pilot studies to scale, ensuring and maintaining quality, selecting appropriate technologies for different circumstances, anticipating negative effects of the market environment on smallholders and ensuring that strategies for ensuring benefits for women and other disadvantaged groups are incorporated into extension service operations. …”
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The International Plant Diagnostic Network West Africa by Beed, Fenton D., Sikirou, R., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Twizeyimana, M., Miller, S.

“…West Africa’s IPDN was established with a hub lab at IITA Bènin with spoke labs in Ghana, Mali and Senegal with support provided by IITA Nigeria. …”
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Progress in breeding for resistance to maize stem borers sesamia calamistis and Eldana saccharina in West and Central Africa by Ajala, S., Kling, J., Cardwell, K., Schulthess, F., Odiyi, A.

“…Stem borer resistant varieties are currently being grown on-farm in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. There is, however, the need to correctly classify the mechanism of resistance in the identified genotypes to improve efficiency of selection and to combine different mechanisms of resistance into different genotypes.…”
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Methodological guide: Community participatory inventory and prioritization of climate-smart crop-livestock agroforestry technologies / practices by Bayala, Jules, Ayantunde, Augustine A., Somda, Jacques, Ky-Dembélé, Catherine, Bationo, B. André, Sanogo, Diaminatou, Tougiani, Abasse, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Led by ICRAF-WCA/Sahel, the BRAS-PAR project is being implemented by a consortium of National research institutes in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Senegal, IUCN, and ILRI.…”
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Corralling, planting density, and N fertilizer rate effect on soil properties, weed diversity, and maize yield by Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen, Larbi, Asamoah, Opoku, A., Tetteh, F.M., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.

“…The interaction effect of stocking density of sheep and goat corralling (SDSG), maize planting density (MPD), and N fertilizer rate (NFR) on soil properties, weed diversity, and maize yield were evaluated on-farm in a smallholder maize-livestock farming system of Northern Ghana during the 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. …”
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Survey of distribution and farmer perceptions of speargrass Imperata cylindrica in cassava based cropping systems in West Africa by Chikoye, David, Ekeleme, F., Ambe, J.T.

“…The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and agricultural research institutions from Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria initiated the Ecologically Sustainable Cassava Plant Protection Project to diagnose cassava production constraints and to use this information to develop and implement sustainable plant protection strategies in West Africa. …”
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First report of banana streak badnavirus in plantain landraces in southern Cameroon, Central Africa by Gauhl, F., Pasberg-Gauhl, C., Hughes, J.D.A.

“…Banana streak badnavirus (BSV) has been reported from Musa spp. in many parts of West Africa, including Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria (1). Symptoms of BSV infection in Musa spp. are sometimes similar to and confused with those caused by cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). …”
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Screening cassava cultivars for resistance to the cassava anthracnose disease (CAD) by Ikotun, T., Hahn, S.K.

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Conservation because it pays: shaded Cocoa agroforests in West Africa by Gockowski, J., Weise, Stephan F., Sonwa, D., Tchatat, M., Ngobo, M.

“…An econometric model of the determinants of shade level explores some of the driving forces behind shade management in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. We conclude by arguing that because of the significant public goods associated with this land use system that there is a need for directed efforts to publicly support the development and maintenance of shaded systems.…”
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Pro-poor risk reduction strategy for HPAI control in backyard poultry in Indonesia: a project overview and approaches used by Unger, Fred, Mariner, Jeffrey C., Narrod, C., Syafrison, I., Sudarman, A., Arifin, B., Nuryartono, N., Sumiarto, B., Siregar, E.S.

“…Considering that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in developing countries is not solely a veterinary problem, especially in backyard flocks, and an acceptable control can only be successful with the involvement of those small holders a research agenda was developed by an international expert team in collaboration with national partners from four African countries (Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana) and Indonesia. The team includes veterinary and economic scientists. …”
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Science-policy interfaces for sustainable climatesmart agriculture uptake: lessons learnt from national science-policy dialogue platforms in West Africa by Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T., Totin, Edmond, Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Thornton, Philip K., Karbo, Naaminong, Sogoba, Bougouna, Dieye, Bounama, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Connecting science with policy has always been challenging for both scientists and policymakers. In Ghana, Mali and Senegal, multi-stakeholder national science-policy dialogue platforms on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) were setup to use scientific evidence to create awareness of climate change impacts on agriculture and advocate for the mainstreaming of climate change and CSA into agricultural development plans. …”
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Assessment of genetic diversity for drought, heat and combined drought and heat stress tolerance in early maturing maize landraces by Nelimor, C., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Tetteh, A.Y., N’guetta, A.S.

“…Thirty-three landraces from Burkina Faso (6), Ghana (6) and Togo (21), and three drought-tolerant populations/varieties from the Maize Improvement Program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture were evaluated under three conditions, namely managed drought stress, heat stress and combined drought and heat stress, with optimal growing conditions as control, for two years. …”
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Implementation of community-based cattle breeding programs in Burkina Faso by Ouédraogo, D., Soudré, A., Ouédraogo-Koné, S., Yougbaré, B., Bienvenue, L.Z., Arnaud, S.R.T., Gábor, M., Burger, P., Khayatzadeh, N., Wurzinger, Maria, Amadou, T., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Sölkner, Johann

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The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania by Kurwijila, Lusato R., Mboya, N., Laizer, M., Omore, Amos O.

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