agricultural technologies are adopted by poor farmers. In Uganda, improved germplasm from the cassava breeding program has …

-subsistence banana farming community in Uganda. A two-crop agricultural household model is developed to show that credit rationing and …

This study analyzes the influence of livelihood assets on Ugandan farmers' decisions to control Banana Xanthomonas Wilt … (BXW), a disease that has threatened banana production and the livelihoods of Ugandan farmers since 2001. The BXW control …

economy, and apply it to smallholder banana producers in Uganda. We model variety planting decisions as being composed of an …

Uganda has made notable progress in reducing micronutrient deficiencies in recent years, but the prevalence of vitamin … criteria, VAD remains a public health problem in Uganda, and anemia is a severe problem. In this paper we explore the potential … contribution to reducing both of these deficiencies using a genetically modified, high-provitamin A and high-iron banana (HPVAHIB …

Banana is a staple crop in Uganda. Ugandans have the highest per capita consumption of cooking bananas in the world … (Clarke 2003). However, banana production in Uganda is limited by several productivity con¬straints, such as insects … long term. Uganda formally initi¬ated its short-term approach in the early 1990s; it involves the collection of both local …

underperformance. Uganda’s two main food security crops, bananas and cassava, have been critically affected by two diseases: Banana …The Government of Uganda has implemented programs and policies to improve the agricultural sector’s recent … consumers and producers from the adoption of genetically engineered banana and cassava with resistance to BXW and CBSD, we use a …