Working Document Series

B.M. Mvumi · R. Rwafa

The study aims to determine peak flight activity periods and develop a safer and more efficacious grain protection strategies using different combinations of new and commercial diatomaceous earths (DEs), biopesticides and minimal pyrethroi…

RUF-32944 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

D.M. Mabula · J.J. Msaky · K.P. Sibuga

A mother-baby trial using farmers’ groups was set up to evaluate the effect of legumes biomass in the management of Striga in Iringa district, Tanzania. A randomised complete block design was used in the experimental lay-out. Two maize gen…

RUF-32939 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

S. Ahabwe · H. Jurua · J. Karungi · M.K.N. Ochwo-Ssemakula +1 more

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…

RUF-32933 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

H. Cocorrea · D. Cugala · S. Ekesi · L. Jose

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…

RUF-32928 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

A.T. Chikoshana · Z.A. Chiteka · J.S. Tichagwa

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…

RUF-32925 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

Y. Pinto

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…

RUF-32921 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

M. Namumbya Kapiriri

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…

RUF-32919 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

M.L. Mogga

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…

RUF-32917 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

Malcolm Blackie · Kay Muir-Leresche

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…

RUF-32916 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

E. Adipala · R. Batte · P. Kibwika · F. Kyazze

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…

RUF-32913 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

Monica Namumbya Kapiriri · J.M. Mugabe

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…

RUF-32911 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

M.Z. Demissie · L.M. Pifer

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…

RUF-32909 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

A. Cyamweshi Rusanganwa

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…

RUF-32906 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

E. Adipala

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…

RUF-32904 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

H.K. Cheruiyot · A.K. Kipkoech · Njira Njira · J.O. Ochuodho +1 more

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…

RUF-32903 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

F.M. Bagarama · A.E. Majule · E. Shenkalwa

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…

RUF-32897 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

F.M. Bagarama · Z.P. Matata · E. Shenkalwa

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…

RUF-32893 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

B.M. Gama · A. Kitalyi · P. Matata · G.I. Nyadzi +1 more

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…

RUF-32889 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

S.H. Ahmed · A.A. Ali

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…

RUF-32879 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

B.A. Ahmed Al-Khalifa · M.I. Ihsan · A.A. Mohammed

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%…

RUF-32876 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

H. Abdelgader

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…

RUF-32871 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014

M.A. Chesire · E.M. Mwenzwa

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 …

RUF-32869 2012 CC BY 4.0 19 May 2014

M. Muna Elhag

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…

RUF-32866 2012 CC BY 4.0 19 May 2014

N. Kihupi · B. Msongaleli · F.B.R. Rwehumbiza · S.D. Tumbo

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…

RUF-32864 2012 CC BY 4.0 19 May 2014

N. Kihupi · B. Msongaleli · F.B.R. Rwehumbiza · S.D. Tumbo

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…

RUF-32863 2012 CC BY 4.0 19 May 2014