In Mozambique, farmers experience severe constraints in accessing quality bean seed at planting time, because the seed industry hardly supplies seed of legume crops. To address this issue, a project on bean seed production and delivery systems was launched in the country to improve farmers’ acces...
Chirwa, Rowland
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Amane, Manuel
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Adelino, Manuel
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Tembo, Frank
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Magreta, Ruth
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[Creating impact oriented bean seed delivery systems for the poor in Mozambique: a baseline study]
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Creating impact oriented bean seed delivery systems for the poor in Mozambique: a baseline study
This study contributed to a better understanding of current gender disparities that can help to ensure future inclusive market development and associated benefits. The analysis is based on empirical evidence from female and male small and medium enterprise (SME) owners along the common bean value...
Wilkus, Erin Lynn
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Francesconi, Gian N.
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[Enhancing the benefits of value chain development: Addressing gender disparities in Kenyan and Ugandan common bean value chains]
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Enhancing the benefits of value chain development: Addressing gender disparities in Kenyan and Ugandan common bean value chains
This study addresses the need to empirically determine the effect of brokers on the performance of SMEs in the common bean value chains of Uganda and Kenya. Contrary to the conventional portrayal of brokers as scam artists, this analysis determined that broker use benefited SMEs by increasing pro...
Wilkus, Erin Lynn
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Francesconi, Gian N.
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[Value chain development to reach the nutritional needs of the urban poor: The role of brokers and SMEs for the commercialization of common beans in East Africa]
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Value chain development to reach the nutritional needs of the urban poor: The role of brokers and SMEs for the commercialization of common beans in East Africa
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
Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel
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[PABRA Program Phase Performance from March 2009 to March 2014]
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PABRA Program Phase Performance from March 2009 to March 2014
La ingesta de proteína y micronutrientes en el Caribe seco colombiano en los últimos años ha sido motivo de preocupación pues cerca del 57 % de sus habitantes tiene déficit de aminoácidos, hierro (Fe) y zinc (Zn) en su dieta. Este artículo muestra los resultados de la evaluación multilocal agronó...
Tofiño Rivera, Adriana Patricia
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Pastrana-Vargas, Iván Javier
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Melo-Ríos, Aslenis Emidia
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Beebe, Stephen E.
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Tofiño Rivera, Rodrigo
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[Rendimiento, estabilidad fenotípica y contenido de micronutrientes de fríjol biofortificado en el Caribe seco colombiano = Yield, Phenotypical Stability and Micronutrients Contents in the Biofortified Bean in the Colombian Sub-humid Caribbean]
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Rendimiento, estabilidad fenotípica y contenido de micronutrientes de fríjol biofortificado en el Caribe seco colombiano = Yield, Phenotypical Stability and Micronutrients Contents in the Biofortified Bean in the Colombian Sub-humid Caribbean
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
Natabirwa, Hedwig
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Nakimbugwe, Dorothy
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Lung'aho, Mercy G.
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Muyonga, John H.
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[Optimization of Roba1 extrusion conditions and bean extrudate properties using response surface methodology and multi-response desirability function]
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Optimization of Roba1 extrusion conditions and bean extrudate properties using response surface methodology and multi-response desirability function