Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Sweetpotato in the Farming and Food Systems of Uganda: A Farm Survey Report
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Sweetpotato Postharvest Systems in Uganda:strategies, Constraints, and Potentials
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations
Author: Graham ThielePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030920224
Category : Agricultural genome mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their vegetative seed and bulky and perishable produce. The innovations create value, food, jobs and new sources of income while improving the wellbeing and quality of life of their users. Women are often key players in the production, processing and marketing of roots, tubers and bananas, so successful innovation needs to consider gender. These crops and their value chains have long been neglected by research and development, hence this book contributes to filling in the gap. The book features many outcomes of the CGIAR Research Program in Roots, Tubers and Banana (RTB), which operated from 2012-21, encompassing many tropical countries, academic and industry partners, multiple crops, and major initiatives. It describes the successful innovation model developed by RTB that brings together diverse partners and organizations, to create value for the end users and to generate positive economic and social outcomes. RTB has accelerated the scaling of innovations to reach many end users cost effectively. Though most of the book's examples and insights are from Africa, they can be applied worldwide. The book will be useful for decision makers designing policies to scale up agricultural solutions, for researchers and extension specialists seeking practical ideas, and for scholars of innovation.
Desarrollo de productos de raíces y tubérculos
Author: Gregory J. ScottPublisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9789290601630
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Program report, 1997-98
Author: International Potato CenterPublisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Sweetpotato
Author: Gad LoebensteinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402094752
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.
Review of Sweetpotato Seed System in East and Southern Africa
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9789290603726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Stepping-stones to improve upon functioning of participatory agricultural extension programs
Author: Prossy IsubikaluPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9086866018
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"The Farmer Field School (FFS) originated in the 1980s in the context of integrated pest management in Indonesian rice farming. With the hope that it is the remedy for agricultural extension system, FFS has been promoted as a tool for participatory learning and experimentation all over the world. This work results from a critical analysis of the introduction of the FFS concept into the agricultural innovation system in Uganda. Ideally, an FFS produces new technical knowledge in the context of application through the input of local human resources. The analysis, framed as a technography, shows that implementation and operation of an FFS is hugely complex. This detailed study of institutional factors, from the level of international donor organizations down to the level of local leadership and gender relations, and analysis of technical factors in different rural areas of Uganda makes clear that and FFS is more than a local tool for farmer participation in agricultural improvement. Implementation of a FFS requires adjustment of the agricultural innovation system at all levels and an integrated tackling of agricultural problems in order to meet its objectives. Isubikalu shows that it is imperative to 'demolish' existing organizational structures and create new ones, which align scientific with local structures to produce an appropriate people-centered system that is more responsive to agricultural and rural development. She provides stepping stones in redesigning FFS to fit the specific conditions in Uganda."
Advances in root and tuber crops technologies for sustainable food security, improved nutrition, wealth creation and environmental conservation in Africa: proceedings of the 9th ISTRC-AB symposium. Mombasa, Kenya, 1-5 Nov. 2004
Author: Current and Potential Demand for Fresh and Processed Sweetpotato Products in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description