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This study aims to develop safe and affordable management strategies for cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) on tomato and the aphids that vector the disease as a strategy to rejuvenate and increase yields of the crop at the small scale levels. Th…
The invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens (Diptera: Tephritidae) is a devastating quarantine pest that continues to threaten fruit and vegetable production in Mozambique. In Mozambique, since its first detection in the Northern region, n…
A study was carried out in the 2008/09 season at Rattray Arnold Research Station in Zimbabwe, to determine the optimum days to harvest for three vegetable soybean varieties, SC Edamame 1, Santa, and Siesta. The experimental design was a ra…
Capacity strengthening is important in enabling Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to compete with growing global technological and economic developments. In the agriculture sector, Africa has to be in a position to achieve food and nutritional secu…
Agricultural universities have a tripartite mandate to design and deliver effective and development relevant academic, research and outreach programmes. Conventional university training, tracking, grading and reporting emphasizes the acade…
South Sudan is endowed with abundant natural resources that can sustain diverse agricultural activities. Decades of civil strife greatly hindered agricultural development until peace returned with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agr…
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture supports relevance and excellence in agricultural Higher Education. RUFORUM, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, is a collaborative netw…
The ACP-EU Academic mobility programme has awarded a grant of • 1,980,150 to Makerere University to support collaboration among 12 Higher Agricultural Education Institutions (HAEIs) in Africa with the aim of providing relevant and internat…
The African European Partnerships on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) presents a unique opportunity for African Universities to meet the increasing demand to join multi-stakeholder platforms. Based on the theory of innovatio…
The study focuses on an international model that is designed to strengthen scientific research in higher education. Research skills are taught in various universities and some are acquired through experience and interaction with researcher…
This paper describes outcomes of a capacity development effort undertaken by the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), in collaboration with the Rwanda Government, the Forum for Agricultural Research i…
The rural African farmer characterizes agriculture in Sub- Saharan Africa. Their yields and productivity remain low and significantly below the global averages for key staple crops including cereal. Due to reliance on rainfall and inabilit…
Vegetable production western Kenya is constrained by soilborne pathogens including plant-parasitic nematodes. Almost all vegetable production fields in are infested with root-knot nematodes. There is therefore need to design measures for s…
This research established the risks posed to legume crop production by invasion of the degraded agricultural lands in western Tanzania by the bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinium). The test crops included the legumes beans (Phaseolus vulgari…
This study was carried out to determine the effect of amending soil with gypsum rich material on the performance of groundnuts (Arachis hypogea L.) grown in low fertile sandy textured soil in the miombo woodland ecosystem, western Tanzania…
Food insecurity, natural resources degradation and climate change are among the most critical challenges facing Tanzania and indeed, the developing world today. There is decreasing agricultural productivity as a result of increasing land d…
Wheat is one of the first food crops to be domesticated and is a basic stable food in Europe, Asia and Africa. Wheat production is limited by insufficient water especially in the hot dry environments. In the arid and semi-arid regions, whe…
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different water regimes applied by drip irrigation on growth and yield of banana cv. Grand Nain in Gizera State. Five different irrigation regimes were applied. These were 40%, 60%, 80%…
This study was carried out to test the effect of the botanicals azadrichtine and Quassin on the parasitoid Trichogramma cacoeciae. For each of these, 2 formulatons were used i.e., Neemazal T/s Blank and Celaflor for azadrichtine and Alcohl…
The drylands of Kenya that comprise of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) make up about 80% of the total land area and support approximately 30% of the population, mainly pastoralists and agro-pastoralists. They are home to most of wildlife …
Water rather than land is the limiting factor for crop production in Sudan. More than 80 percent of sorghum, which is the major stable food crop in the country, is grown in the rainfed subsector. This paper reports on a study of the impact…
The central regions of the country stretching from Dodoma to Mwanza account for three-quarters of Tanzania’s 500,000 to 800,000 ton annual sorghum harvest. The zone is one of the most sensitive to climate variability and change mainly owin…
This review highlights some pertinent methodologies in dealing with uncertainty in climate projections and how crop models are increasingly used to support decisions at various levels to guide food security policy formulation, management a…
Increasing pollution loading is one of the factors which have led to instability of the Lake Kivu threatening the survival of millions of people living around it. This study will i) characterise and quantify historical land use and livelih…
This research project is aimed at evaluating the impact of climate change on the growing mud crab (Scylla serrata) fisheries industry in Tanzania. The specific objectives are: to assess the contribution of mud crab fattening to the livelih…
