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Effect of varietal attributes on the adoption of an orange-fleshed sweetpotato variety in Upper East and Northern Ghana by Adekambi, SA, Okello, JJ, Rajendran, S, Acheremu, K, Carey, EE, Low, J, Abidin, PE

“…Despite sustained economic growth and reduction in some of forms of malnutrition, Ghana still faces a national prevalence rate of 20.8% vitamin A deficiency…”
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Goal-setting and volitional behavioural change: Results from a school meals intervention with vitamin-A biofortified sweetpotato in Nigeria by Lagerkvist, C.J., Okello, J.J., Adekambi, S., Kwikiriza, N., Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.E.

“…Malnutrition, particularly vitamin A deficiency, is a major public health problem in many developing countries. This study investigated whether priming or…”
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Adaptation and stability analysis of sweet potato varieties for low-input systems in Uganda by Abidin, P. E., van Eeuwijk, F. A., Stam, P., Struik, P. C., Malosetti, M., Mwanga, R. O. M., Odongo, B., Hermann, M., Carey, E. E.

“…Sixteen sweet potato varieties were evaluated for fresh storage root yield in 20 trials during 2000–2001 for three seasons in four locations in Uganda. Of the…”
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Isolation and characterization of potato-tomato somatic hybrids using an amylose-free potato mutant as parental genotype by Jacobsen, E. (Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen (Netherlands). Dept. of Plant Breeding), Reinhout, P, Bergervoet, J.E.M, Looff, J. de, Abidin, P.E, Huigen, D.J, Ramanna, M.S

“…Using different genotypes of tomato and diploid potato, possessing alien selectable markers as well as endogenous markers, very high frequencies of protoplast…”
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Farmers' information on sweet potato production and millipede infestation in north-eastern Uganda. I. Associations between spatial and temporal crop diversity and the level of pest infestation by Ebregt, E., Struik, P.C., Abidin, P.E., Odongo, B.

“…Farmers in five districts of north-eastern Uganda were interviewed to generate information on sweet potato production and constraints, with emphasis on damage…”
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Pest damage in sweet potato, groundnut and maize in north-eastern Uganda with special reference to damage by millipedes (Diplopoda) by Ebregt, E., Struik, P.C., Odongo, B., Abidin, P.E.

“…Field experiments were conducted in Soroti District, north-eastern Uganda, an area with two rainy seasons per calendar year, the first one with long, reliable…”
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Effect of exposure to biofortified crops on smallholder farm household adoption decisions: The case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ghana and Nigeria by Adekambi, S.A., Okello, J.J., Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.

“…Commonly used innovation adoption models indirectly assume homogenous information flow across farmers, which is often not the case. For new and or not widely…”
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Farmers' information on sweet potato production and millipede infestation in north-eastern Uganda. II. Pest incidence and indigenous control strategies by Ebregt, E., Struik, P.C., Abidin, P.E., Odongo, B.

“…Sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lamk) is an important staple food for the people of north-eastern Uganda. Crop yields per unit area are low partly because…”
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Using sand storage technology: can we store sweetpotato roots for food and vines, thus contributing to food and nutrition security in drought-prone areas? by Abidin, P.E., Asare, K., Kazembe, J., Akansake, D., Dorgbetor, I.K., Suleman, I., Achibase, S., Imoro, S., Dery, E.K., Mourik, T.V., Carey, E.E.

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Developing and deploying non- and low-sweet sweetpotato cultivars for expanding markets by Carey, E.E., Swanckaert, J., Dery, E.K., Akansake, D., Saaka, J., Abidin, P.E., Adofo, K., Baafi, E., Acheremu, K., Adu-Kwarteng, E., Muzhingi, T., David, M., Low, J., Grüneberg, W.

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Piecemeal versus one-time harvesting of sweet potato in north-eastern Uganda with special reference to pest damage by Ebregt, E., Struik, P.C., Odongo, B., Abidin, P.E.

“…In north-eastern Uganda, the sweet potato crop of small subsistence farmers is severely affected by many pests, including (rough) sweet potato weevils,…”
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Feeding activity of the East African millipede Omopyge sudanica Kraus on different crop products in laboratory experiments by Ebregt, E., Struik, P.C., Abidin, P.E., Odongo, B.

“…Millipedes can cause considerable damage in the production of sweet potato and some other crops in East Africa. Quantitative information on intake of crop…”
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