Search Results - Hanau~

Food flows and the roles of cities in West African food distribution networks by Karg, H., Bouscarat, J., Akoto-Danso, E. K., Heinrigs, P., Drechsel, Pay, Amprako, L., Buerkert, A.

“…The capital cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Bamako (Mali) relied more on lower-rank urban settlements further away, while Tamale, a secondary city in Ghana, acted as an assembly market for local rural producers and in turn supplied larger urban centers. …”
Get full text

Homing in on endogenous badnaviral elements: Development of multiplex PCR-DGGE for detection and rapid identification of badnavirus sequences in yam germplasm by Silva, G., Bömer, M., Turaki, A.A., Nkere, C., Kumar, P. Lava, Seal, S.

“…This study outlines the development of multiplex PCR-dependent denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) to assist in the detection and analysis of eDBVs, through the example of analysing yam germplasm from Nigeria and Ghana. Primers targeting the three most prevalent DBV monophyletic species groups in West Africa were designed to improve DGGE resolution of complex eDBV sequence fingerprints. …”
Get full text

A systems thinking approach to understand the drivers of change in backyard poultry farming system by Aboah, Joshua, Enahoro, Dolapo K.

“…OBJECTIVE This paper seeks to understand how drivers of change in Ghana's backyard poultry farming system evolve within a calendar year and examine how different production strategies contribute to the incomes of farm households. …”
Get full text

Agro-biodiversity in national pathways for food system transformation: case of West Africa by El Bilali, Hamid, Cardone, Gianluigi, Naino Jika, Abdel Kader, Falcis, Eleonora de, Rokka, Susanna, Diawara, Ali Badara, Nouhou, Bassirou, Ghine, Andrea

“…Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone). The conservation, management and restoration of agrobiodiversity and agro-ecosystems are crucial to boost the transition towards nature-positive food systems in the region. …”
Get full text

Securing Sweetpotato Planting Material for Farmers in Dryland Africa: Gender-Responsive Communication Approaches to Scale Triple S by McEwan, M., Mourik, Tom A. van, Hundayehu, M.C., Asfaw, F., Namanda, S., Suleman, I., Mayanja, S., Imoro, S., Etwire, P.M.

“…This chapter explores evidence from Ethiopia and Ghana (2018–2019) on the extent to which exposure to different communication channels and their combinations influenced the uptake of Triple S PLUS by male and female farmers, the partnering arrangements that supported this, and the resulting changes in food security. …”
Get full text

Farmer advisory systems and pesticide use in legume-based systems in West Africa by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul, Nyam, Yong Sebastien, Lokossou, Jourdain C., Gebrekidan, Bisrat Haile

“…They also use pesticides more intensively (41 %). On the other hand, farmers advised by public extension systems are about 5 % more likely to extensively use pesticides. …”
Get full text

Analysing urban and peri-urban youth employment in agribusiness in Malawi by Mkandawire, D., Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Nsenga, J.V., Yami, M., Kenamu, E.

“…The results revealed that a majority of the urban and peri-urban youth engaged in agribusiness across Malawi work in sole farming (family farms or ganyu); in addition, women outnumber men in terms of engagement in agribusiness, and this stems from tradition. …”
Get full text

Advancing an intersectional lens into gender transformative work in agri-food systems by López, Diana E., Gualoto, Ekaterina, Pyburn, Rhiannon

“…In this paper, we profile opportunities for adopting an intersectional lens in GT work with an emphasis on diverse experiences of women smallholder farmers from Ghana and Mexico. Our analysis suggests that by centering the experiences of individuals from diverse backgrounds in a systematic, context-specific way, GT interventions can transcend current limitations. …”
Get full text

Simple but Effective Sand Storage Technology for Assuring More Food and Timely Planting Material in Drought-Prone Areas of SubSaharan Africa by Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.E., Kasembe, J., Akansake, D., Dorgbetor, I., Suleman, I., Achibase, S., Dery, E., Mourik, T.V., Low, Jan W.

“…Between 2011 and 2018, studies were conducted in Northern Malawi and Ghana on a technique using sand to store fresh sweetpotato roots. …”
Get full text

Hierarchical modelling of small-scale irrigation: Constraints and opportunities for adoption in sub-Saharan Africa by Haile, Beliyou, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Choufani, Jowel, Ringler, Claudia, Bryan, Elizabeth

“…Using data from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Ghana, we first examine patterns of adoption of different SSI technologies. …”
Get full text

Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour? by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, International Food Policy Research Institute, Vos, Rob, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.…”
Get full text

Soil quality reflects microbial resource availability and drives rhizosphere microbiome variation in Ghanaian cocoa farms by Schmidt, J., Addo-Danso, S.D., Asare, R., Tettey, A., Isaac, M.E.

“…Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important crop in Ghana and the source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers. …”
Get full text

Tanzania Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The overall aim of the program is to transform agricultural systems through sustainable intensification projects in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali, and (potentially) Zambia. …”
Get full text

Institutional limits to land governance reform: Federal-state dynamics in Nigeria by Resnick, Danielle, Okumo, Austen

“…While poor land governance systems have long been identified as a key reason for this disjuncture, the relatively recent large-scale impetus to improve land governance emerged from the inclusion of land management in 2009 as one of the four pillars under the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Develop-ment Program (CAADP). …”
Get full text

Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamics by Ahmed, Kazi Farzan, Wang, Guiling, You, Liangzhi, Anyah, Richard, Zhang, Chuanrong, Burnicki, Amy

“…As a result, the transient approach projects a generally faster future expansion of cropland, with the largest differences over Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, and Togo. Despite the relative large differences between the two approaches in projecting land cover changes associated with cropland expansion, the projected future climate changes are fairly similar. …”
Get full text

The political economy of urban food security in Sub-Saharan Africa by Maxwell, Daniel G.

“…This paper briefly reviews urban food insecurity and generates a set of empirical questions for an analysis of food and livelihood security in contemporary urban Sub-Saharan Africa, and then examines historical and contemporary evidence from Kampala, Uganda, and Accra, Ghana, to suggest some tentative conclusions.…”
Get full text

Nairobi City County Food System Profile by Lamba, Davinder, Omondi, Samuel

“…Its geographic scope is global, with priority activities in Bangladesh, Philippines, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Peru. RUAF, a global partnership on sustainable agriculture and food systems and a partner in Resilient Cities, is contributing to implementation of Work Package Five, ‘Strengthening research and innovation capacity’. …”
Get full text

bEcon Archival Collection by Paul, Namita, Yerramareddy, Indira, Zambrano, Patricia

“…This effort is part of the Bill and Melinda Gates funded project “Biotechnology and Biosafety Rapid Assessment Platform – BioRAPP”, a project that, among other policy related objectives, will develop and implement ex ante assessments in 5 African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda) using secondary data. …”
Get full text

Effectiveness of early generation selection in cowpea for grain yield and agronomic characteristics in semiarid West Africa by Padi, Francis K, Ehlers, J.D.

“…Walp.] population was examined in the Guinea and Sudan savanna agroecologies of Ghana where genotype × location interaction is known to be large. …”
Get full text

Strengthening Soil Health Systems in West Africa: Development of Appropriate Fertilizer Nutrient Requirements for Specific Crop and Soil Combinations within Prioritized Target Area... by Kadja, Lionel Axel, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Shehu, Bello, Sinha, Surajit, Sehou, Romaric;, Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Ampadu Boakye, Theresa

“…This is being undertaken with focus on Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali and Senegal in geographies where strategic scaling projects such as FSRP and Soil values are working in. …”
Get full text