Resultados de búsqueda - "Uganda"

Strengthening agricultural extension training: Process skills and competency gaps in undergraduate agricultural extension curriculum in South Africa por von Maltitz, Lindie, Davis, Kristin E., Suvedi, Murari, Chanza, Charity, Agwu, Ekwe Agwu, Sasidhar, P. V. K., Ukamaka, Mabel Dimelu, Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda, Anugwa, Ifeoma Quinette, Tchuwa, Frank

“…The research aims to identify skills and competency gaps in undergraduate agricultural extension curricula in the participating countries – Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda - and use the results to contribute to formulating appropriate curricula. …”
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19: Insights from 7 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia por Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti, Ringler, Claudia, Bryan, Elizabeth, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…The study was designed as a longitudinal panel study with five rounds of data collection in Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria, and Senegal, and three rounds of data collection in Kenya, Niger, and Uganda. Both men and women were administered the same survey, with some modifications made across countries to adapt to local contexts. …”
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The Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) por Malapit, Hazel J., Pinkstaff, Crossley, Sproule, Kathryn, Kovarik, Chiara, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…It then proceeds to discuss (1) the background and motivation behind the creation of the A-WEAI; (2) the steps taken to develop the AWEAI— namely, cognitive testing and piloting of different modules, particularly those that were difficult to administer in the field; (3) analysis of the pilot data from Bangladesh and Uganda; (4) domain-specific comparisons of the different pilot versions; and (5) robustness checks and empowerment diagnostics from the A-WEAI as compared with the original WEAI. …”
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Near infrared spectroscopy models to predict sensory and texture traits of sweetpotato roots por Nantongo, J.S., Serunkuma, E., Davrieux, F., Nakitto, M., Burgos, G., Thomas, Z.F., Eduardo, P., Carey, T., Swankaert, J., Mwanga, R.O.M., Alamu, E.O., Ssali, R.T.

“…The roots of 207 sweetpotato genotypes from six agroecological zones of Uganda were collected from breeding trials. The spectra were collected in the wavelengths of 400 – 2500 nm at 2 nm intervals. …”
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What are the priorities for investment in improved nutrition data? por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Twice annually, Uganda implements Child Days Plus (CDP), a month-long outreach activity that distributes vitamin A capsules to preschool children and deworms children 6 months to 14 years old. …”
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Defining a target population of environments in Africa for Brachiaria sp. and Guinea grass breeding por Mora, Brayan, Jauregui, Rosa Noemi, Llanos Herrera, Lizeth, Peters, Michael, Van Der Hoek, Rein, Notenbaert, An

“…For this, a spatially- explicit environmental characterisation and cluster analysis was conducted in Southeast Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini and South-Africa) and West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Burkina Faso). …”
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State of the Climate in Africa 2023 por World Meteorological Organization

“…The African continent warmed at a rate of +0.3 °C/decade between 1991 and 2023, a slightly faster rate than the global average. 2023 was the warmest year on record in many countries, including Mali, Morocco, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda. Morocco experienced the highest temperature anomaly, 1.25 °C above the 1991–2020 reference period. …”
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Inclusive and gender-transformative seed systems: Concepts and applications por Galiè, Alessandra, Kramer, Berber, Spielman, David J., Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Rietveld, Anne M., Aju, Stellamaris

“…We then synthesized lessons learned from the application of this framework to case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda that used ICTs that contained gendered components. …”
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One Health & food systems research from CGIAR por Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…A decade of One Health incentive-based & behavior change interventions in traditional markets & meat processing sectors in Vietnam, Cambodia, Kenya, & Uganda is cultivating an environment of improved food safety & reduced foodborne diseases. …”
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Catalysing the Scale-Up of Integrated Small Ruminant Value Chains in Eastern and Southern Africa por Recha, John W.M., Demissie, Teferi, Haile, Aynalem, Mengistu, Tesfaye G, Makonnen, Brook T., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Barungi, Julian, Magagula, Futhi, Taapopi, Mirjam, Gitau, Angela, Johnston, Angharad, Varley, Ciara, Mashizha, Tinashe M, Ndlovu, Noel, Murray, Una, McKeown, Peter C, Spillane, Charles, Solomon, Dawit

“…The learning event brought together 148 Ethiopian livestock keepers – including 47 women – from the Bonga area, along with 26 international participants comprising women and youth livestock keepers, livestock specialists, and extension staff from Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Botswana, and Namibia. Through a combination of theoretical instruction and practical field demonstrations, participants strengthened their capacities in livestock reproductive technologies, forage production, and livestock agribusiness. …”
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Africa-Wide Capacity-Building Workshop on Strengthening Rice Seed Networks por NDindeng, S.A., Bah, S., Willem, J., van Casteren, A., Tang, E., Ndung’u, J., Kittika, M., Wakilongo, N.J.

“…Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Egypt, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire highlighted diverse governance models, best practices, and systemic weaknesses such as poor institutionalization, corruption risks, and rigid governance structures. …”
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Long-term observations of rain forest succession, tree diversity and responses to disturbance por Sheil, Douglas

“…Eggeling studied the vegetation of Budongo Forest, Uganda during the 1930s and 1940s. He described a series of ten plots (1.4 and 1.86 ha) as a successional progression of forest types in which tree species numbers show a unimodal rise-and-fall over time - a pattern best known from Connell's illustration of his intermediate disturbance hypothesis. …”
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Effect of plant population on yield of maize and climbing beans grown in an intercropping system por Niringiye, C., Ssekabembe, CS, Kyamanywa, S.

“…Increased adoption of climbing beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris check for this species in other resources L.) in Kabale district, south-western Uganda, has been limited by scarcity of staking materials, despite the crop's higher yield potential compared to bush bean types when grown on fertile soils. …”
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Aflatoxins: Serious threat to food safety and food security: But is it related to livestock? por Lindahl, Johanna F., Harvey, Jagger J.W., Grace, Delia

“… • Assessing aflatoxins in commercial pig feed in Uganda and possible effects on growth. With this research portfolio, the complex problem of aflatoxins as a threat to animal and human health, and to food production, security and safety, will be better understood.…”
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Food safety policy in 9 African countries por Grace, Delia, Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Bonfoh, Bassirou, Roesel, Kristina, Makita, K.

“…Methods A consortium of African and German research institutes conducted a series of food safety policy analyses in 9 countries (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali). …”
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Natural resource integrity: A resilient community on the degraded slopes of Mount Elgon takes on mending its broken landscape por Otiende, V.A., Bourne, M., Tanui, J., Mowo, J.

“…The once beautiful foothills of Mount Elgon, in eastern Uganda are today seriously degraded, with excessive water run-offs and landslides becoming regular occurrences. …”
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First report of Phakopsora pachyrhizi causing rust on soybean in Malawi por Murithi, H., Beed, Fenton D., Soko, M., Haudenshield, J.S., Hartman, G.L.

“…Soybean rust (SBR), caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, has become established in Africa since the first report in Uganda in 1996 (2). The urediniospores, as windborne propagules, have infested new regions of Africa, initiating SBR in many countries, including Ghana and Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007 (4) and Tanzania in 2014 (3). …”
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Genetic diversity of Bemisia tabaci species colonizing cassava in Central African Republic characterized by analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I por Tocko-Marabena, B.K., Silla, S., Simiand, C., Zinga, I., Legg, James P., Reynaud, B., Delatte, H.

“…This haplotype was identical to the SSA1-SG1 Mukono8-4 (KM377961) haplotype that was recorded from Uganda but that also occurs widely in CMD pandemic-affected areas of East Africa. …”
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First report of rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi on soybean in Democratic Republic of Congo por Ojiambo, P., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Twizeyimana, M., Lema, A., Frederick, R.D., Pedley, K.F., Stone, C.L., Hartman, G.

“…Nigeria (1) and Uganda (3) are the closest countries to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where soybean rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi has been reported. …”
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Exchanging and managing in-vitro elite germplasm to combat cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) in Eastern and Southern Africa por Tumwegamire, Silver, Kanju, E., Legg, James P., Shirima, R., Kombo, S., Mkamilo, G.S., Mtunda, K., Sichalwe, K., Kulembeka, H.P., Ndyetabura, I., Saleh, H., Kawuki, R.S., Alicai, Titus, Adiga, G., Benesi, I.R.M., Mhone, A., Zacarias, A., Matsimbe, S.F., Munga, T., Ateka, E., Navangi, L., Maruthi, M.N., Mwatuni, F., Ngundo, G., Mwangangi, M., Mbugua, E., Ndunguru, J., Rajabu, C., Mark, D.

“…The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture led five national cassava breeding programs (Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) in virus-cleaning and exchanging elite cassava germplasm resistant to both diseases. …”
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