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A study previously conducted revealed that a greater proportion of yams being conserved by farmers on-farm are becoming extinct. Some of these yams are also being conserved at the gene bank. A strategy was formulated to increase farmers’ a…
In the study of technology adoption and determination of smallholder farmer’s adoption of an introduced technology at given point in time, the employment of ‘Binary settings of logit and probit’ is a commonly used methodology. This static …
The agricultural sector is Tanzania’s main economic pillar. However, the development of the sector cannot be achieved without transformation of smallholder agriculture, which make up the larger proportion of the sector in the country. Prov…
Through the Centre for Rural Community Empowerment (CRCE), students, academics and community members at the University of Limpopo interact in shaping and improving the training of students, impact of university knowledge on community membe…
The need for tertiary institutions’ involvement in agroforestry development is relevant now more than ever due to limited funding within the national research and extension institutions and weak community/stakeholder linkages. A study was …
Entre 2011 et 2013, l’Université de Dschang au Cameroun a expérimenté la mise en place et l’animation d’une plateforme d’innovation en vue de renforcer l’élevage des cobayes. Différentes catégories d’acteurs ont été identifiées et structur…
The global knowledge economy has broadened in the 21st century and has created a push for demand to process and share information in light of this, there is increasing expectation from stakeholders in higher eduation necessitating universi…
This paper shares the author’s perspective and experience during the formatting and editing of manuscripts for the Fifth African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference held 17-21 October 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. Thes…
La présente étude a examiné la perception qu’ont les producteurs sur certaines innovations comme le Système d’Information des Marchés (SIM) des produits forestiers non ligneux (PFNL) et les forêts communautaires (FC). L'hypothèse stipule q…
Milk production has the potential to substantially contribute to sustainable household income, food and nutritional security. However, acute staff shortages and inadequate skills within the sector have been major challenges. Over the last …
Climate change is the fluctuation around the mean climate state or pattern that has built over a long period of time, usually decades or longer, typically 30 years. The worlds’ climate is continuing to change at rates that are projected to…
Administrative roles are fundamental components for the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations. These roles include file maintenance, communications, clerical duties, office logistics management, financial management, procurement, h…
The experience of CoS-SIS (2008-2014), an action research programme in West Africa (Benin, Ghana and Mali), could be of interest for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. It focuses on implementing innovation platforms for improving the in…
This volume presents six papers on sustainable agricultural intensification to improve Africa’s land productivity. It introduces papers, among others, presented at the 5th African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference in Ca…
Objective: We aimed at determining the prevalence and characterizing the CaPV, determining the CaPV - PPRV coinfection prevalence and providing data about phylogenetic relationship betwee n the fusion protein of PPRV and …
This study was conducted to investigate the genetic diversity at d-loop of mitochondrial DNA and establish the possible maternal lineages of indigenous goat breeds in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo). Phylogenetic relationships among…
The high protein content of soybean (Glycine max) seeds results in high nitrogen demand, causing a huge nitrogen uptake during plant growth. As a legume crop, soybean can fix atmospheric N through symbiotic associations with Bradyrhizobia …
Accurate estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB) strongly depend on the suitability and precision of allometric models. Although additive allometric equations are expected to reduce uncertainties due to additivity property between biomass o…
This study employed full Mahalanobis matching and a variety of propensity score matching methods to adjust for pre-treatment observable differences between treated and untreated groups for measuring the impact of technologies. Data were co…
This paper aimed to identify factors affecting adoption of multiple climate change adapta tion strategies in Southern Malawi. An ordered probit model was estimated using survey data collected in Nsanje and Balaka districts in 2014-2015 cro…
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) grain constitutes an important source of protein for several households in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, widespread occurrence of viral diseases is a serious constraint to productivity of the crop and its …
Sustainable production of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) under high tunnels is threatened by bacterial wilt (caused by Ralstonia solanacearum) and root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.). Knowledge was generated about the concomitant occur…
Malicious software, commonly known as malware are constantly getting smarter with the capabilities of undergoing self-modifications. They are produced in big numbers and widely deployed very fast through the Internet-capable devices. This …
Following a series of research on promiscuous nodulation, it came out that it is incomplete to define ‘promiscuous soybean’ as soybean cultivars with the sole ability to form nodules freely with indigenous Bradyrhizobium strains without re…
