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Supportive policy environment on informal seed systems leads to increased use of local climate-resilient varieties por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…CCAFS East Africa partnered with Bioversity to develop resilient seed systems in East Africa, and Uganda in particular. As a result, the revised Ugandan SeedPolicy (2019) recognizes these efforts and has provisions for strengthening community seedbanks, including the production and commercialization of quality seeds in the informal system.…”
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Community-based seedbanks increase access and availability of high-quality seeds for 189,000 farmers in East Africa por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…About 107,000 farmers in Kenya and Uganda access seeds through seedbanks, another 82,000 potato farmers in Kenya are using a web-based SMS platform for disseminating information on resilient seeds and ware. …”
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Supportive policy environment on informal seed system led to increased utilization of local climate-resilient varieties in East Africa por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Bioversity International has established community seedbanks to enable farmers to have easy access to diverse, good quality seed, conserve it and commercialize it for improved livelihoods. In Uganda, for some years, Bioversity International advocated for the formal recognition of community seedbanks and farmers varieties. …”
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Farmer-to-farmer training adopted by 86 organizations serving 352,000 farmers in Eastern Africa improves dairy farmers' knowledge, productivity and revenues por CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…knowledge of dairy practices as well as dairy productivity and revenues in Uganda's Busoga region.…”
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Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index adopted by four International Development Research Centre projects to measure women’s empowerment in animal vaccine interventions por CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

“…This is the first time the tool is being used by a major international funder at scale, reaching women participants across six countries (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Ghana, Nepal).…”
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The World Bank is using International Food Policy Research Institute research results to enhance the nutrition outcomes of irrigation investments in sub-Saharan Africa por CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…It informed the design of two projects in Uganda and Tanzania and will be scaled out to other projects.…”
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Target population of environments for bean breeding in Africa por Jha, Prakash K., Beebe, Stephen E., Álvarez Toro, Patricia, Mukankusi, Clare, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…The beangrowing environments in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda can be categorized into six different environmental groups (EGs) on the basis of seasonal variation of drought stress under historical and future climates projected using crop-climate prediction models (Jha et al, under review). …”
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Shamba Shape Up: Using digital channels to deliver bundled agriculture, climate, and financial information services: IPSR Innovation Profile por Chilambe, Pedro Anglaze, Gichinga, Patricia, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

“…Shamba shape is a farm makeover show which reaches over 8 million viewers in Kenya, and is now scalling up its reach to a show in Zambia and we would like to propose its scale up also to Uganda. The show will bring in new elements, providing seasonal forecasting to farmers with agro-advisory, reporting on FEWS-net early warning and agro-meteorological bulletins for access by smallholder farmers, through TV, Radio and the IShamba mobile app.…”
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Impact of soil compaction on common bean yield in East Africa por Jha, Prakash K., Beebe, Stephen E., Urban, Milan Oldřich, Preciado Gutiérrez, Camilo A., Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…Bean yield can decrease up to 73% in the East Africa region (EAF, consisting of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda) under soil compaction (with an increase in bulk density of up to 17%) combined with drought stress, althoughimpact of soil compaction alone on bean yield is relatively less – around 12%. …”
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A Review of Key Issues and Recent Experiences in Reforming Agricultural Research in Africa por Chema, S., Gilbert, Elon, Roseboom, Johannes

“…NARS reform details are illustrated and discussed in seven case-study countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. While there is considerable consensus about the main trends, there are major differences and disputes on specific aspects of the reform agenda. …”
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Lessons learnt in nutrition education communication and advocacy por HarvestPlus

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Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture por Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgrowers in Uganda to transfer a sugarcane contract to their wife or to register a previously uncontracted block in her name. …”
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Urban governance and service delivery in African cities: The role of politics and policies por Resnick, Danielle

“…Case studies of Senegal, South Africa and Uganda highlight how and when such dynamics become problematic for the delivery of urban services, and offer important implications for the donor community.…”
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Understanding economic transformation in Africa through the country studies por Headey, Derek D., McMillan, Margaret S.

“…The countries studied are Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda. In May 2011, IFPRI together with Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) hosted a conference in Accra in May 2011 where the papers were presented and discussed. …”
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The regional network on AIDS, livelihoods, and food security (RENEWAL): Influencing change in HIV/AIDS policy through networks por Frankenberger, Timothy R., Nelson, Suzanne, TANGO International, Inc.

“…In response to this crisis, the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL) was officially launched in 2001 as a joint project of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), and was operational in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa through most of 2011.…”
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Enhancing WFP’s capacity and experience to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate vouchers and cash transfer programmes: Study summary por Hoddinott, John F., Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Margolies, Amy, Roy, Shalini, Sandström, Susanna, Schwab, Benjamin, Upton, Joanna

“…The studies in Ecuador, Uganda, Niger, and Yemen were carried out over the period 2010–2012.…”
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Refining opportunity cost estimates of not adopting GM cotton: An application in seven Sub-Saharan African countries por Bouët, Antoine, Gruère, Guillaume P.

“…A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a genetically‐modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina‐Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is adopted in other countries. Our model uniquely employs country‐specific partial adoption rates and factor‐biased productivity shocks in the cotton and oilseed sectors of all adopting regions. …”
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Commentary on Defining the Problem por Vamoer, Alexander P.

“…Before independence, most eastern and southern African countries, with the probable exception of Uganda, had very little data on the prevalence of malnutrition. …”
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A National Land Policy Review in Kenya: Rangelands and Pastoralists' Perspective por Otieno, Ken P.

“…Through several stakeholder engagements and technical expert contributions from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, this policy position paper presents various perspectives and recommendations on the main thematic areas relevant to pastoralists. …”
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Deepening Access, Impact, and Adoption of Bundled Digital Farmer Services in Ghana. por Allavi, Elorm, Marcus, Larry, Nunoo, Hannah

“…Syecomp’s participation in AICCRA Ghana Cluster activities in 2024 enhanced our resolve to support more farmers beyond our existing farmer client group in Ghana, Togo, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The project's intervention for 2024 helped over 100,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana to efficiently access agro-advisory services through our platform. …”
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