Search Results - "Ugandan"

Using trial follow-up surveys to assess varietal adoption: The case of beans by David, S., Wortmann, Charles S., Kasozi, S, Mugisha-Mutetikka, M

“…Drawing on results of a survey of Ugandan farmers who previously hosted bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) varietal trials, this paper reports on the adoption of three new bush bean cultivars and assesses the usefulness of post-trial surveys as a methodology for obtaining reliable early feedback on varietal adoption potential. …”
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Farmer seed enterprises: a sustainable approach to seed delivery? by David, S.

“…It reports on lessons learned from the Ugandan experience and offers a conceptual framework and guidelines for establishing economically and institutionally sustainable FSEs. …”
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Cassava brown streak disease: a threat to food security in Africa by Patil, B.L., Legg, James P., Kanju, E., Fauquet, Claude M.

“…CBSD is caused by two distinct species of ipomoviruses, Cassava brown streak virus and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus, belonging to the family Potyviridae. …”
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Strategies to resistance to bacterial wilt disease of banana through genetic engineering by Tripathi, L., Tripathi, J.N., Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K.

“…The livelihoods of millions of Ugandan farmers have been threatened by current outbreak of a banana bacterial wilt disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, which is very destructive and rapidly spreading in Uganda. …”
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Field Guide to Common Homegarden Crops of Southwestern Uganda by Whitney, Cory W., Huth, A., Kehlenbeck, K., Hammer, K., Gebauer, J.

“…We hope that this booklet will be of interest to a broad community of people interested in sustainable agriculture, food systems and food security issues: e.g. both Ugandan and international academics, non-government and government actors.…”
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Building the managerial capital of agricultural cooperatives in Africa by Francesconi, Gian Nicola, Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…Using a production function for cognitive achievement and key informant interviews, we find that our training contributed to the adoption of the proposed solutions by some of the cooperatives. Using the Ugandan sub‐ sample, we estimate an OLS regression and a PSM model to show that the training translated into higher revenues per member generated through collective commercialization.…”
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Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Kumar, Neha, Behrman, Julia A.

“…In Uganda, fuel price increases eroded husbands’ landholdings, while drought shocks reduced wives’ assets. Ugandan husbands’ assets were better protected against covariate shocks than wives’ assets.…”
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Situational analysis to inform resource sharing agreement in Karamoja Cluster by Kenduiywo, Benson, Chepngetich, Brenda, Korir, Victor, Ogero, Derrick, Denje, Telvin, Juma, Quinto

“…This report provides critical scientific evidence to inform the Kenya-Uganda Resource sharing agreement deemed relevant following allegations by the Ugandan government against Turkana pastoralists. These claims led to the arrest and ban of Turkana herders from Uganda. …”
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Scenario-guided policy planning in Uganda by Rutting, Lucas, Tumuhereze, Martin, Ampaire, Edidah L., Muchunguzi, Perez, Acosta, Mariola, Okiror, John Francis, Asten, Piet J.A. van

“…Using socio-economic scenarios in policy formulation allows for an anticipatory approach to governance processes and the formulation of policies/plans that take into account future uncertainty To fully benefit from the dividends of scenario planning in the Ugandan context, there is need to build the scenario-guided planning capacity of both public and private sectors. …”
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Multivariate analyses of supposedly duplicate accessions of east African highland bananas in germplasm colections in Uganda by Pickersgrill, B., Vuylsteke, D.R., Gold, C., Karamura, E.B., Kiggundu, A., Karamura, D.

“…Thirty-seven pairs of accessions of East African highland bananas, listed under the same name in the Ugandan germplasm collections at Kawanda and Kabanyolo, were surveyed for 50 morphological characters. …”
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Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on paralysis and mortality of Pratylenchus goodeyi by Mwaura, P., Dubois, T., Losenge, T., Coyne, Danny L., Kahangi, E.

“…Kenyan isolates performed equally as good as the Ugandan isolate (V5W2) in causing paralysis and mortality. …”
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Are consumers at the base of the pyramid willing to pay for nutritious foods? by Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Sibiko, Kenneth W., Wanyama, Rosina, Jager, Matthias, Birachi, Eliud Abucheli

“…Results show that both Kenyan and Ugandan BoP consumers are willing to pay a premium for the improved porridge flour. …”
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Empowered communities tell their own stories from common bean production in Uganda by Akpo, E., Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…Women in the traditional Ugandan setting are considered as care givers and are tasked with ensuring food security. …”
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Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households by Lecoutere, Els, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses on household welfare and public goods provision in Ugandan and Tanzanian monogamous smallholder coffee farming households. …”
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Risk and sustainable crop intensification: The case of smallholder rice and potato farmers in Uganda by Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Bizimungu, Emmanuel, Birungi, Dorothy

“…This paper documents patterns observed in socioeconomic data that suggest risk is an important barrier to sustainable crop intensification practices among Ugandan smallholder rice and potato farmers. In particular, we find that households that engage in risk management strategies, such as investing in risk-reducing technology or engaging in precautionary savings, are more likely to practice intensified cropping. …”
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Returns to spending on agricultural extension: The case of the national agricultural advisory services (NAADS) program of Uganda by Benin, Samuel, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Okecho, Geresom, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Kato, Edward, Lubade, Geofrey, Kyotalimye, Miriam

“…Data from two rounds of surveys of Ugandan rural farm‐households conducted in 2004 and 2007, as well as different program evaluation methods and model specifications, are used to estimate impacts and compute a rate of return. …”
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Online platform providing data on milk by Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Chamberlin, Jordan, Kariuki, S., Ariong, Richard M.

“…The data was recorded through 75 milk analyzers installed by the Ugandan Dairy Development Authority in randomly selected local milk collection centers. …”
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Institutionalizing quality declared seed in Uganda by Mastenbroek, Astrid, Otim, Geoffrey, Ntare, Bonny R.

“…The class is anchored in the Ugandan National Seed Policy and its seed regulations and its operationalization plan. …”
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation by Nicol, Alan, Odinga, W.

“…This paper examines the Ugandan IWRM experience and identifies complex political-economy issues lying at the heart of current challenges. …”
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A contingent valuation analysis for assessing the market for genetically modified planting materials among banana producing households in Uganda by Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Asindu, Marsy

“…Results show that producers were willing to pay between Ugandan shillings (UGX) 1100 to 1700 (US$0.28–0.44) per GM banana sucker Annual demand for GM banana suckers ranged from 70 to 82 million suckers. …”
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