Resultados de búsqueda - "Uganda"

Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya por Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Anyango Jalang'o, Dorcas, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

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Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resource Policies for CGIAR Scientists and Partners in East Africa, 4 - 7 June 2019, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia por CGIAR Genebank Platform

“…This event brought together 30 staff members from 6 CGIAR Centres and 10 participants from national agricultural research organizations in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The workshop was designed to increase participants’ understanding of the CGIAR Centres’ and national research organizations’ obligations vis-à-vis international treaties and conventions dealing with access and benefit-sharing, and how these international instruments influence the day-to-day management of the collections. …”
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Systemic barriers to scaling private sector driven climate-smart agricultural innovations in East Africa’s potato, sesame and common bean value chains por Shilomboleni, Helena, Recha, John W.M., Ubels, Jan, Radeny, Maren A.O., Solomon, Dawit

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Effectiveness of learning and experimentation approaches for farmers as a community based strategy for banana xanthomonas wilt management por Tinzaara, William, Ssekiwoko, F., Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Karamura, E.

“…This paper presents a new participatory approach for managing BXW named Learning and Experimentation Approaches For Farmers (LEAFF) and describes how it was implemented, tested and evaluated among 220 farmers across two agroecological regions, central and South-western Uganda. Results showed that there was a general reduction in the number of infected plants, corresponding to 7% increase in productivity of banana among the LEAFF compared to the non LEAFF participating farmers. …”
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Household survey data on income, food security and dietary behaviour among women and children from urban and per urban regions of Nairobi metropolitan por Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate, Lung'aho, Mercy G., Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Ndung'u, John, Nungo, Rhoda, Karanja, David

“…This data was collected in the context of a Cultivate Africa's Future (CultiAF) project on pre-cooked beans led by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Uganda's National Research Organization (NARO). A cross-sectional household survey that was carried out to assess key access constraints to nutritious foods among urban and peri-urban consumers. …”
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How does climate exacerbate root causes of conflict in Senegal? Climate Security Pathway Analysis por Madurga Lopez, Ignacio M., Medina, Leonardo, Carneiro, Bia, Liebig, Theresa Ines, Läderach, Peter R.D., Pacillo, Grazia

“…This publication is part of a factsheet series reporting on the findings of the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Observatory work in Africa (Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe). The research is centered around 5 questions: 1. …”
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Where are the most vulnerable areas to climate induced insecurities and risks in Kenya? por Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Mendez Alzate, Andres Camilo, Läderach, Peter R.D., Pacillo, Grazia

“…This publication is part of a factsheet series reporting on the findings of the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Observatory work in Africa (Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe). The research is centered around 5 questions: 1. …”
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How does climate exacerbate root causes of conflict in Kenya? Climate Security Pathway Analysis por Dutta Gupta, Tanaya, Hassan, Gamal Mohamed, Abdi, Abdimajid Nunow, Madurga Lopez, Ignacio M., Liebig, Theresa Ines, Santa Cruz, Leonardo Medina, Sax, Niklas, Läderach, Peter R.D., Pacillo, Grazia

“…This publication is part of a factsheet series reporting on the findings of the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Observatory work in Africa (Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe). The research is centered around 5 questions: 1. …”
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Hiding or pleasing: Spousal disagreement among Ugandan maize farmers por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J.

“…We document differences in answers between male and female co-heads in monogamous smallholder maize-farming households in Uganda. We first confirm that not all disagreement can be explained by measurement error or bias. …”
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Integrated natural resource management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From concept to practice por German, L., Mowo, J., Amede, Tilahun, Masuki, K.

“…It is enriched with examples and case studies from fiv e benchmark sites in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, whose variability provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge of the complexities of integrated NRM in agro-ecosystems that play an important role in the rural economy of the region. …”
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Права женщин на землю в Кыргызской Республике. Защита прав женщин на ресурсы с помощью гендерно-трансформационных подходов por Global Initiative for Gender Transformative Approaches for Securing Women’s Resource Rights

“…This series of socio-legal reviews summarizes the legal and policy documents related to women’s land tenure in seven countries: Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Niger, Bangladesh, and Colombia. …”
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MorePork - Study: Food Demand and Nutrition Cross-Sectional Survey por Ouma, Emily, Pezo, Danilo, Dione, Michel, Lukuyu, Ben, Marshall, Karen, Lule, Peter, Asiimwe, Grace, Opio, Felix, Kawuma, Brian, Kariuki, Eunice

“…MorePork: More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction The project seeks to test and pilot best bet options to improve on-farm productivity, household nutrition and pork safety in the marketing chain, so that benefits are enhanced for poor men and women farmers and their organisations, market actors and consumers, while minimizing negative environmental impacts., The objective of this study is to assess households' food demand and nutritional security with consideration for intra-household resource and food allocation. …”
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Poultry technology toolkit catalogue: Clearinghouse technical report series 016 por Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation

“…During the first Phase of the TAAT Program (2018-2021), the Compact introduced and reinforced these technologies in several countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and plans to expand its reach into 2022 and beyond.…”
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Dairy consumption and household diet quality in East Africa: Evidence from survey-based simulation models por Ecker, Olivier, Pauw, Karl

“…While our analysis is based on data from Kenya and Uganda, both countries with established dairy sectors, our findings are relevant for other East African countries with similar dietary patterns and emergent dairy sectors.…”
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Myanmar migration in a time of transformation: 2011-2020 [in Burmese] por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Minot, Nicholas, Kabir, Razin, Vos, Rob, Narayanan, Sudha, Rice, Brendan, Aredo, Samson Dejene

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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Pilot II for Bangladesh por International Food Policy Research Institute, Data Analysis and Technical Assistance

“…The Index is a significant innovation in its field and aims to increase understanding of the connections between women’s empowerment, food security, and agricultural growth. The Uganda pilot covered five spatially dispersed rural districts in the northern region (Amuru and Kole), central region (Luwero and Masaka), and eastern region (Iganga). …”
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Measuring coffee yields: A comparison of one-time harvest and allometric methods por Hoffmann, Vivian, Kagezi, Godfrey, Rwakazooba, Ezra, Zane, Giulia

“…We compare allometric yield estimates of Robusta coffee grown by smallholder farmers in Uganda with those obtained through a one-time harvest of both ripe and unripe cherries of a specified minimum size at the beginning of the fruiting season.…”
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Marketing biofortified crops: Insights from consumer research por Uchitelle-Pierce, Benjamin, Ubomba-Jaswa, Acanda

“…In regions of Nigeria, most farmers and consumers feel positively about biofortification and are interested in consuming a more nutritious diet. In Kampala, Uganda awareness of biofortified vitamin A orange sweet potato is very high, and more than half of survey respondents had purchased it at least once. …”
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Measuring time use in development settings por Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…The paper identifies a significant lack of rigorous empirical research comparing these methods in development settings, and begins to fill this gap by analyzing data from Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index surveys in Bangladesh and Uganda. The surveys include stylized questions and time diary estimates for the same individual. …”
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Risk and sustainable crop intensification among Ugandan rice and potato farmers por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Bizimungu, Emmanuel, Birungi Namuyiga, Dorothy

“…To feed a growing and increasingly urbanized population, Uganda needs to increase crop production without further exhausting available resources. …”
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