Kenya

Onyango, Eunice

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  • Start Date: 2009/01/01
  • End Date: 2010/09/01
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  • Degree: MS

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A Productive Safety Net for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: HSNP+ Program

The Hunger Safety Net Program (HSNP) launched in Northern Kenya provides reliable cash transfers to poor households. Given the considerable risk faced by households in the […]

  • Start Date: 2008/11/01
  • End Date: 2011/12/31
  • Project Code: Not Available
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Weya, Belinda Akinyi

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Njeru, Crispus Mugambi

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  • Start Date: 2008/02/01
  • End Date: 2010/02/01
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  • Degree: MS

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Improving the health and livelihood of people of East Africa by addressing aflatoxin and gender-related constraints in peanut production, processing and marketing

This project links science directly to pressing development challenges. It increases food security and nutritional value for families producing one of Africa’s key crops, peanut. Building […]

  • Start Date: 2008/01/01
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: VT134
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Strategies for Controlling Groundnut Rosette Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Breeding for Disease Resistance, Seed Dissemination, Disease Management Education, and Generation of Transgenic Groundnut with Resistance to Groundnut Rosette Disease

The goals of the project are to develop and disseminate highly desirable groundnut cultivars with resistance to groundnut rosette disease (GRD) and drought tolerance to groundnut […]

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Improving livelihoods of farm households in peanut based farming systems in East Africa

The overall purpose of the University of Connecticut-Peanut CRSP effort is to improve understanding of the farm level economics of peanut production and marketing in Uganda […]

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Global Valencia Peanut Niche Market Development Program

This project’s long term goal is to identify diverse germplasm with beneficial traits from Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. fastigiata var. fastigiata (Valencia) and markers associated with […]

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Using Improved Pulse Crop Productivity to Reinvigorate Smallholder Mixed Farming Systems in Western Kenya

Many rural households in the East African highlands are no longer self-sufficient in beans, a critical source of food and income. Farmers’ inability to afford fertilizer […]

  • Start Date: 2008
  • End Date: 2012/12/31
  • Project Code: CU-1
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Breeding Sorghum for Improved Resistance to Striga and Drought in Africa

The goal of research in this project is to develop, deploy, and promote the use of second generation sorghum cultivars with drought and Striga resistance using […]

  • Start Date: 2008
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: PRF 101
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