It is increasingly becoming important to understand relationships between temperature (manifested at different altitude levels) and sweet potato insect pest characteristics in light of temperature changes as a result of global warming. Field surveys were conducted in Kabale district of Uganda alo...
Okonya, J.
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Kroschel, J.
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[Incidence, abundance and damage by the sweet potato butterfly (Acraea acerata Hew. and the African sweet potato weevils (Cylas spp.) across an altitude gradient in Kabale district, Uganda]
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Incidence, abundance and damage by the sweet potato butterfly (Acraea acerata Hew. and the African sweet potato weevils (Cylas spp.) across an altitude gradient in Kabale district, Uganda
Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting could be useful in decision making at village level to best exploit the seasonal distribution of rainfall in order to increase or stabilize crop yields. We examined existing indigenous knowledge by interviewing 192 households in six regions of ...
Okonya, J.
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Kroschel, J.
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[Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting: a case study in six regions of Uganda]
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Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting: a case study in six regions of Uganda
In Uganda, weather-related events such as prolonged dry seasons, floods, storms, mudslides, extreme rainfall, and delayed/early rains have become more frequent and/or intense. This has left most of the rural poor farmers’ food insecure and their livelihoods threatened. A total of 192 sweetpotato ...
Okonya, J.
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Syndikus, K.
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Kroschel, J.
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[Farmers’ perception of and coping strategies to climate change: evidence from six agro-ecological zones of Uganda]
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Farmers’ perception of and coping strategies to climate change: evidence from six agro-ecological zones of Uganda
Originating from the Andean region and co-evolved with its food plant, the potato (Solanum sp.), the potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) has become an invasive potato pest globally. The hypothesis of our present study was that the future distribution and abundance (damage potential...
Kroschel, J.
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Sporleder, M.
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Tonnang, Henri E.Z.
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Juarez, H.
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Carhuapoma, P.
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González, J.C.
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Simon, R.
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[Predicting climate-change-caused changes in global temperature on potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) distribution and abundance using phenology modeling and GIS mapping]
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Predicting climate-change-caused changes in global temperature on potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) distribution and abundance using phenology modeling and GIS mapping
If climate change scenarios include higher variance in weather variables, this can have important effects on pest and disease risk beyond changes in mean weather conditions. We developed a theoretical model of yield loss to diseases and pests as a function of weather, and used this model to evalu...
Garrett, K.A.
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Dobson, A.D.M.
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Kroschel, J.
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Natarajan B
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Orlandini S
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Tonnang, Henri E.Z.
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Valdivia, C.
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[The effects of climate variability and the color of weather time series on agricultural diseases and pests, and on decisions for their management]
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The effects of climate variability and the color of weather time series on agricultural diseases and pests, and on decisions for their management