This paper briefly discusses the role of NGOs in agricultural interventions and highlights some of the key lessons learned from Catholic Relief Services' experience managing a multi-country banana (Musa spp.) project in Central and East Africa.
Cassava is among the most important food crops in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is currently facing a new emerging threat in the cassava brown streak virus. This brief, written by scientists for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), discusses the new emergence of this virus and its implications.
This brief is a summary of the food security surveys and analyses commissioned under the C3P project to assess the impacts on food and income from banana and cassava disease across six countries.
This brief summarizes the contributions and use of geographic mapping tools (GIS/GPS) in a disease management project and discusses the challenges encountered while providing recommendations for future projects.
This brief shares the recent cassava disease impacts in Burundi and explores some of the principal causes behind cassava cutting loss from harvest to planting and provides a set of practitioner oriented lessons learned.
