Agriculture is the main economic sector, accounting for 27% of GDP, employing 73% of the labor force and contributing 46% of total exports. Agricultural production is primarily based on small scale subsistence farming, comprising a system of mixed agriculture with perennial and annual crops, as w...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[East Africa: Uganda - Agriculture, food security and climate change outlook]
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East Africa: Uganda - Agriculture, food security and climate change outlook
Neuenschwander, P.
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Tamo, M.
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Saethre, M.G.
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[Improving plant health in sub-Saharan Africa: conclusions and future challenges]
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Improving plant health in sub-Saharan Africa: conclusions and future challenges
This project takes a novel approach to enhancing food security and incomes by focusing on employment opportunities. Through learning about growing, multiplying and processing orange-fleshed sweetpotato, young people in northern Mozambique will acquire the knowledge and skills to build sustainable...
International Potato Center
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[Promoting employment, food security and nutrition in Mozambique. Sweetpotato-based job-opportunities for young people. Project profile.]
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Promoting employment, food security and nutrition in Mozambique. Sweetpotato-based job-opportunities for young people. Project profile.
Stevens, Joe
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].]
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Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].
Microinsurance is widely considered an important tool for sustainable poverty reduction, especially in the face of increasing climate risk. Although index based microinsurance, which should be free from the classical incentive problems, has attracted considerable attention, uptake rates have gene...
Takahashi, Kazushi
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Ikegami, Munenobu
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Sheahan, M.
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Barrett, Christopher B.
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[Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia]
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia
Le Coq, Jean François
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Grisa, Catia
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Sabourin, Eric
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Sotomayor, Octavio
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[Políticas públicas y desarrollo rural en América Latina: Balance y perspectivas. Memorias del Seminario de la Red de Políticas Públicas y Desarrollo Rural en América Latina (PP-AL), 5 al 7 de septiembre 2018]
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Políticas públicas y desarrollo rural en América Latina: Balance y perspectivas. Memorias del Seminario de la Red de Políticas Públicas y Desarrollo Rural en América Latina (PP-AL), 5 al 7 de septiembre 2018
This project aims to build sustainable livelihoods among 3,000 poor and rural households in southern Malawi by boosting sweetpotato production, strengthening value chains, and creating better market access.
International Potato Center
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[Developing integrated value chains to enhance rural smallholder incomes and food security year-round. DIVERSIFY Malawi. Project profile.]
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Developing integrated value chains to enhance rural smallholder incomes and food security year-round. DIVERSIFY Malawi. Project profile.
This paper generates an extrapolation suitability index (ESI) to guide scaling-out of improved maize varieties and inorganic fertilizers. The best-bet technology packages were selected based on yield gap data from trial sites in Tanzania. A modified extrapolation detection algorithm was used to g...
Muthoni, Francis K.
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Baijukya, Frederick P.
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Bekunda, Mateete A.
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Sseguya, H.
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Kimaro, Anthony A.
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Alabi, T.
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Mruma, S.
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Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
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[Accounting for correlation among environmental covariates improves delineation of extrapolation suitability index for agronomic technological packages]
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Accounting for correlation among environmental covariates improves delineation of extrapolation suitability index for agronomic technological packages