Strengthening the capacity of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to sustainably manage the outbreak of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East and Central Africa
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Strengthening the capacity of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to sustainably manage the outbreak of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East and Central Africa
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Karamura, E.B.
Johnson, V. |
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communication
bananas disease control xanthomonas |
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Since 2001 banana Xanthomonas wilt has seriously threatened East and Central African food and income security. The paper describes Bioversity’s response in coordinating regional partners to develop a novel communications strategy to raise stakeholder awareness for managing the disease across east Africa. Bioversity engaged multiple stakeholders to develop tools for disease control in a coordinated multi-media communication strategy. Communication materials included a novel blend of: brochures; leaflets; billboards; clothing-slogans; radio talk-shows; drama; training workshops; CDRoms, and posters and videos , as well as a bilingual website. Results showed that around 51,000 farmers in target sites tripled yields, achieving extra income >US$ 67 million. At the sub-regional level, the rate of reported disease outbreaks went down by 20-40%.
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2012
2019-10-15T15:42:10Z 2019-10-15T15:42:10Z |
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Conference Paper
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Karamura, E.; Johnson, V. (2012) Strengthening the capacity of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to sustainably manage the outbreak of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East and Central Africa. 7 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104620 https://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/strengthening-the-capacity-of-the-national-agricultural-research-systems-nars-to-sustainably-manag/ http://iaald2010.agropolis.fr/ |
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en
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Limited Access
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7 p.
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