Common bean is the most widely grown and consumed grain legume in Kenya. However, its contribution to nutrition and income has not been fully felt by smallholder farmers in western Kenya due to low yields. Good quality seed, if used with complementary practices can increase bean productivity. Thi...
Odhiambo, Wilfred
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Ngigi, Margaret
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Lagat, Job
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Binswanger, Hans P.
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Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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[Analysis of quality control in the informal seed sector: case of smallholder bean farmers in Bondo Sub-County, Kenya]
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Analysis of quality control in the informal seed sector: case of smallholder bean farmers in Bondo Sub-County, Kenya
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Sperling, L.
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Muthoni, Rachel
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Buruchara, Robin A.
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[The power of partnerships: accelerating bean seed production and delivery with and among African farmers]
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The power of partnerships: accelerating bean seed production and delivery with and among African farmers
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Lung'aho, Mercy G.
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Ochieng, Justus
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Binagwa, Papias
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Mdachi, Mary
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Zakayo, Eunice
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Shida, Nestory
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Msaky, John
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Kadege, Edith
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Mutua, Mercy
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Nyakundi, Fridah
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Kalemera, Sylvia
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[Consumer acceptance of and willingness to pay for high-iron beans in northern Tanzania.]
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Consumer acceptance of and willingness to pay for high-iron beans in northern Tanzania.
The common bean is sensitive to many biotic and abiotic constraints. To enhance farm productivity, farmers need to have access to and use bean production practices that combine seed of improved varieties as well as integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) and integrated pest and disease manage...
Abang, Mathew M.
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Chirwa, Rowland
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Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha
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[Development and Dissemination of Integrated Crop Management (ICM) Technologies for Management of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses affecting Common bean in PABRA]
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Development and Dissemination of Integrated Crop Management (ICM) Technologies for Management of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses affecting Common bean in PABRA
This initiative was aimed at demonstrating that the public‐private partnerships in the bean seed value chain can make a difference to avail bean seed of improved varieties to farmers. The common beans is an import food crop covering an estimated area of 260,000 ha in Malawi in 2010. However the r...
New bean varieties translate into increased on-farm yields only if farmers obtain access to desired seed. Conventional models of legume seed delivery in Africa, centralized with the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS), prove to be slow and of limited reach. This article describes a nove...
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Sperling, L.
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Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel
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Buruchara, Robin A.
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[Bean seed delivery for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: the power of partnerships]
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Bean seed delivery for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: the power of partnerships
Limited access to seed of improved varieties is an impediment to agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers in the national and international agricultural research systems have been piloting a community based seed multiplication and marketing enterprises (CBSME) model, as an alt...
Tebeka, Y.A.
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Katungi, Enid
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Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Sserunkuuma, D.
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Kidane, T.
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[Economic performance of community based bean seed production and marketing in the central rift valley of Ethiopia]
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Economic performance of community based bean seed production and marketing in the central rift valley of Ethiopia
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Sperling, L.
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Karanja, D.R.
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Seward, PD
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Leakey, L
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[Public-private sector partnerships : The power of small seed packs for reaching 100,000s of kenyan bean farmers]
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Public-private sector partnerships : The power of small seed packs for reaching 100,000s of kenyan bean farmers
Sperling, L.
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Remington, T.
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Cooper, H.D.
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McGrath, S.
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Haugen, JM
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Nagoda, S
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Teshale, A
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Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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[How research is improving response in really high stress systems: emergency seed aid in Africa]
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How research is improving response in really high stress systems: emergency seed aid in Africa
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important grain legume crops for direct human consumption, faces many challenges as a crop. Domesticated from wild relatives that inhabit a relatively narrow ecological niche, common bean faces a wide range of biotic and abiotic constraints wit...
Assefa, Teshale
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Mahama, A. Assibi
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Brown, Anne V.
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Cannon, Ethalinda K.S.
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Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Blair, Matthew W.
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Cannon, Steven B.
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[A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)]
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A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)