underperformance. Uganda’s two main food security crops, bananas and cassava, have been critically affected by two diseases: Banana … Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD). The effectiveness of agronomic and cultural practices to control … consumers and producers from the adoption of genetically engineered banana and cassava with resistance to BXW and CBSD, we use a …

efficiency among smallholder cassava farmers in Central Madagascar. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select … 180 cassava farmers in the region and from this sample, input-output data were obtained using the cost route approach. The …'s cassava farmers are not fully technically efficient, showing a mean score of .79%, and suggesting that opportunities still …