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Identifying and characterizing areas for potential forage production in Rwanda by Umunezero, Olive, Mwendia, Solomon W., Paul, Birthe K., Maass, Brigitte L., Ebong, Cyprian, Kagabo, Desire M., Musana, Bernard, Muhutu, Jean Claude, Mutimura, Mupenzi, Hirwa, Claire d’Andre, Shumbusho, Felicien, Nyiransengimana, Eugenie, Mukuralinda, Athanase, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

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Planning workshop for Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project by Nsengiyumva, G, Kagabo, Desire M., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Hansen, James

“…This report presents the outputs of the planning workshop for the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture Project. …”
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Climate Services for Agriculture in Rwanda Baseline Survey Report by Coulibaly, Jeanne Y., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Kagabo, Desire M., Mutua, Mercy M.

“…This report presents analysis of a baseline household survey for the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project – a four-year, USAID-funded initiative that seeks to benefit Rwanda’s farming communities and national economy through climate services and improved climate risk management. …”
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Iron beans in Rwanda: crop development and delivery experience by Mulambu, J., Andersson, Meike S., Palenberg, M., Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., Saltzman, Amy, Birol, Ekin, Oparinde, A., Boy, Erick, Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Lubobo, Antoine Kanyenga, Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha, Nkalubo, Stanley T.

“…HarvestPlus and its partners have successfully developed and delivered iron bean varieties to more than one million farming households in Rwanda, DRC, and Uganda to help combat the adverse health effects of iron deficiency widespread in these countries. …”
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Seeds of hope in Rwanda: What have we learned? by Sperling, L.

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Identification of constraints to banana production in three ecoregions of Rwanda by Gaidashova, S.V., Germeau, G., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Delvaux, B.

“…A survey was carried out in 108 fields in Rwanda to identify constraints to banana productivity in three regions: Ruhengeri (young volcanic soils), Gitarama–Butare (soils derived from granitic rocks), and Kibungo (weathered soils from schistose materials). …”
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Agricultural transformation in Rwanda: Commercialization, Marketing channels and Gender by Ingabire, Chantal, Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Amacker, M., Bigler, C.

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Exploring pathways for gender-responsive climate services in Rwanda by Nsengiyumva, Gloriose, Kagabo, Desire, Gumucio, Tatiana

“…A recent study suggests that women are significantly less aware of climate information than men in all provinces of Rwanda (Coulibaly et al., 2017). This gap may be associated with ownership of communication assets and participation in social groups as means of communication of the information where women are far behind men (Coulibaly et al., 2017). …”
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Agricultural value chain finance for smallholder farmers [Rwanda] by Kwizera, Alice

“…A project in Rwanda's Kirehe district has targeted smallholder farmer and their cooperatives to help them leverage private investment and funds from financial institutions, and with this help them upgrade and diversify their activities. …”
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Ruminants´production within agroforestry systems in rural Rwanda by Olsson, Pernilla

“…The aim of this study was to document the animal production systems used by rural small-scale farmers maintaining ruminants and using agroforestry in the northern province of Rwanda. The farmers using agroforestry is expected to have higher milk yield than average due to homegrown protein. …”
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Rwanda national consultation forum for CGIAR site integration by CGIAR Consortium Office

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Bean Breeders andWomen Been fxperts in Rwanda by CGIAR

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The effect of land inheritance on youth migration and employment decisions in Rwanda by Byishimo, P., Hirpa Tufa, A., Yami, M., Alene, A., Feleke, S., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Manyong, Victor

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Creating a lean, reliable, and scalable platform for highfrequency data on diet quality in Rwanda by Manners, Rhys, Adewopo, Julius

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Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture: Transforming Rwanda’s rural farming communities and national economy through improved climate risk management - Project Newsletter 2019 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture (RCSA) project made great strides in 2019 starting with the launch of two partnerships on strengthening agricultural climate services in Rwanda with the Department for International Development (DFID) of the UK Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). …”
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Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture: Transforming Rwanda’s rural farming communities and national economy through improved climate risk management - Project Newsletter 2018 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…On 23 March 2016, on World Meteorological day, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in collaboration with Rwanda’s Meteorological Agency (Meteo Rwanda), Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB), the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) launched the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project.…”
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Five years of research on improved fallow in the semiarid highlands of Rwanda by Balasubramanian, V., Sekayange, L.

“…Alternative technologies that maximize the use oflocal resources and improve the sustainability of crop production in Rwanda are needed. Promising species for the semi-arid highlands, where the research reported in this paper was conducted, include mucuna (Mucunaprwiens) for fallow periods of 1 4- 1 8 weeks, sunnhemp (Crotalaria ochroleuca), pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) and desmodium (Desmodium distortum) for fallow periods of 20-24 weeks, and Sesbania sesban and Tephrosia vogelii for long fallows ofa year or more. …”
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Roundtable Meeting Nairobi, Kenya - Sustain Rwanda project updates by Muoki, P.

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Climate risk assessment for selected value chain commodities in Rwanda by Mwongera, Caroline, Mutua, John Y., Koech, Nicholas, Osiemo, Jamleck, Kinyua, Ivy Wambui, Nguru, Wilson

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Emerging disease challenges to sustainable production of Brachiaria grass in Rwanda by Uzayisenga, Bellancile, Mutimura, Mupenzi, Muthomi, J.W., Mwang’ombe, A.W., Ghimire, Sita R.

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