Maize is a major staple food crop in southern Africa and stress tolerant improved varieties have the potential to increase productivity, enhance livelihoods and reduce food insecurity. This study uses big data in refining the geospatial targeting of new drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties in Ma...
Tesfaye, K.
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Sonder, Kai
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Caims, J.
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Magorokosho, C.
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Tarekegn, A.
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Kassie, Girma T.
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Getaneh, F.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Abate, T.
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Erenstein, Olaf
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[Targeting drought-tolerant maize varieties in southern Africa: a geospatial crop modeling approach using big data]
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Targeting drought-tolerant maize varieties in southern Africa: a geospatial crop modeling approach using big data
This study was initiated to contribute to the debate on the relationship between gender and adoption of innovations. It aims, under a participatory varietal selection, to identify the preferences of men and women farmers on maize varieties tolerant to drought in northern Benin. The methodology us...
Baco, M.N.
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Affoukouk, T.
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Moumouni, I.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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[Is taking gender into account for development and diffusion of agricultural innovations justified? The case of drought tolerant maize in Northern Benin]
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Is taking gender into account for development and diffusion of agricultural innovations justified? The case of drought tolerant maize in Northern Benin
Alleviating poverty and reducing food insecurity have received close critical attention from many researchers in sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers' participation in agricultural markets has been seen as a potent strategy for improving their livelihoods. This paper applies econometrics to farm survey da...
Mignouna, Djana B.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Akinola, Adebayo A.
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Kamara, A.
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Oluoch, M.
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[Understanding market participation choices and decisions of maize and cowpea farmers in northern Nigeria]
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Understanding market participation choices and decisions of maize and cowpea farmers in northern Nigeria
In Africa, there have been successes in cassava research in terms of the development of production technologies, particularly
improved varieties with high yield potential. The study addresses the question of whether and to what extent adoption of
improved cassava varieties has led to rural povert...
Feleke, S.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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[Assessing the impacts of cassava technology on poverty reduction in Africa]
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Assessing the impacts of cassava technology on poverty reduction in Africa
Non-farm activities have been generally considered as important strategy for overcoming credit constraints faced by rural households as well as for reducing poverty through income effect. This paper employs binary probit and average treatment effect to estimate the impact of participation in non-...
Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Amato, M.S.
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Ainembabazi, John H.
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Mignouna, Djana B.
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Okafor, C.
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[Non-farm activities and adoption of improved cassava and beans varieties in South-Kivu, DR Congo]
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Non-farm activities and adoption of improved cassava and beans varieties in South-Kivu, DR Congo
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) cofunded the Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) project with the objective of documenting the extent of adoption of improved cassava varieties with a rigorous sampling and DNA based identific...
Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Girma Tessema, G.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Rabbi, Ismail Y.
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Olanrewaju, A.S.
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Bentley, J.
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Alene, A.
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Feleke, S.
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Kulakow, P.A.
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Asumugha, G.N.
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Adebayo, M.A.
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Tokula, M.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[The cassava monitoring survey in Nigeria: final report]
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The cassava monitoring survey in Nigeria: final report
Several alternative options have been used for varietal identification. However most of the traditional methods have inherent uncertainty levels and estimates often have wide confidence intervals. In an attempt to circumvent traditional survey-based measurement errors in varietal identification, ...
Girma Tessema, G.
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Rabbi, Ismail Y.
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Olanrewaju, A.S.
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Alaba, O.
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Kulakow, P.A.
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Alabi, T.
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Ayedun, B.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Alene, A.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[A manual for large-scale sample collection, preservation, tracking, DNA extraction, and variety identification analysis]
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A manual for large-scale sample collection, preservation, tracking, DNA extraction, and variety identification analysis
The Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) project was funded by the CGIAR-RTB
Program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The main goal was to carry out a
study on cassava adoption and diffusion patterns in Nigeria. This includes explaining
why farmers are adopting certain varieties and describing...
Bentley, J.W.
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Olanrewaju, A.S.
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Madu, T.
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Olaosebikan, O.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Kulakow, P.A.
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Ayedun, B.
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Ojide, M.
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Girma Tessema, G.
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Rabbi, Ismail Y.
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Asumugha, G.N.
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Tokula, M.
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[Cassava farmers' preferences for varieties and seed dissemination system in Nigeria: gender and regional perspectives]
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Cassava farmers' preferences for varieties and seed dissemination system in Nigeria: gender and regional perspectives
Boukar, O.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Tamo, M.
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Agrama, H.
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Tefera, H.
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Fatokun, C.A.
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Boahen, S.
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[A success tale on improving two legume crops in Africa]
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A success tale on improving two legume crops in Africa
This paper comprehensively examines price transmission from world, neighbour country, and internal commercial hub markets to Nigerian urban markets, as well as from urban to rural markets within the country, for seven key food security crops (maize, millet, sorghum, rice, cassava, yams and cowpea...