We are pleased to share with you our SmartAg Partner bi-annual newsletter, highlighting policy engagement, ongoing research, field updates and activities with partners from the first half of 2019.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Bi-Annual Newsletter, January - June 2019]
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The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Bi-Annual Newsletter, January - June 2019
Soybean is an exotic crop to Ethiopia and may not necessarily have a specific endosymbiont in the soil. However, since it is a promiscuous host, nodulated by cross nodulating rhizobia, it is likely that some compatible endosymbionts exist from heterologous hosts that could nodulate it with effect...
Abera, Y.
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Masso, C.
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Assefa, F.
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[Phenotypic, host range and symbiotic characteristics of indigenous soybean nodulating rhizobia from Ethiopian soils]
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Phenotypic, host range and symbiotic characteristics of indigenous soybean nodulating rhizobia from Ethiopian soils
Improving fertilizer use efficiency has remained a challenge, particularly for small-scale farming in undulating ‘abnormal’ landscapes of East Africa. Milne's 1930s concept on ‘Catena’ was considered as a breakthrough in understanding soil variability and its implication on productivity in East A...
Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] breeding is important for food security and health in East Africa (EA), and a breeding platform in Uganda provides national researchers and breeders in EA with true seed. Our objectives were to characterize
genetic relationships among parental material used ...
Coffee quality can be affected by variety, climate and soil factors, field management practices and post-harvest handling and processing techniques. Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is an economically important crop, which is contributing the highest of all export revenues in Ethiopia. The obje...
Assefa, A.
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Kufa-Obso, T.
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[Effect of methods of processing on raw and intrinsic quality of Sidama and YirgaCheffee coffee types]
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Effect of methods of processing on raw and intrinsic quality of Sidama and YirgaCheffee coffee types
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), caused by cassava brown streak ipomoviruses (CBSIs), has become the most debilitating biotic stress to cassava production in East and Central Africa. Lack of CBSD-resistant varieties has necessitated the search for alternative control measures. Most smallholde...
Shirima, R.R.
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Maeda, D.G.
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Kanju, E.E.
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Tumwegamire, Silver
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Ceasar, G.
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Mushi, E.
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Sichalwe, C.
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Mtunda, K.
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Mkamilo, G.
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Legg, J.
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[Assessing the degeneration of cassava under high-virus inoculum conditions in coastal Tanzania]
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Assessing the degeneration of cassava under high-virus inoculum conditions in coastal Tanzania
Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm) which causes Xanthomonas wilt (XW) on banana (Musa accuminata x balbisiana) and enset (Ensete ventricosum), is closely related to the species Xanthomonas vasicola that contains the pathovars vasculorum (Xvv) and holcicola (Xvh), respectively pathogenic to...
Nakato, G.V.
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Rojas, J.L.F.
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Verniere, C.
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Blondin, L.
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Coutinho, T.
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Mahuku, G.
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Wicker, E.
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[A new Multi Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Analysis Scheme for epidemiological surveillance of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum, the plant pathogen causing bacterial wilt on banana and enset]
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A new Multi Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Analysis Scheme for epidemiological surveillance of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum, the plant pathogen causing bacterial wilt on banana and enset
Rural households in sub-Saharan Africa earn a substantial part of their living from rain-fed smallholder agriculture, which is highly sensitive to climate change. There is a growing number of multi-level assessments on impacts and adaptation options for African smallholder systems under climate c...
Wichern, Jannike
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Descheemaeker, Katrien
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Giller, Ken E.
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Ebanyat, Peter
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Taulya, G.
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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[Vulnerability and adaptation options to climate change for rural livelihoods – a country-wide analysis for Uganda]
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Vulnerability and adaptation options to climate change for rural livelihoods – a country-wide analysis for Uganda
Although ‘disrespectability’ has been discerned as an important discourse that accompanies Tanzanian women’s engagement in hospitality jobs, it remains unclear how they counter this devaluation and whether their male co-workers are affected as well. Using a life-story methodology with a sample of...
Fischer, Gundula
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[Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry]
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Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry