Strengthening the capacity of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to sustainably manage the outbreak of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East and Central Africa
| dc.creator | Karamura, E.B. | |
| dc.creator | Johnson, V. | |
| dc.date | 2012 | |
| dc.date | 2019-10-15T15:42:10Z | |
| dc.date | 2019-10-15T15:42:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T13:48:28Z | |
| dc.description | 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%. | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104620 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/66362 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Limited Access | |
| dc.source | 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. | |
| dc.subject | communication | |
| dc.subject | bananas | |
| dc.subject | disease control | |
| dc.subject | xanthomonas | |
| dc.title | Strengthening the capacity of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) to sustainably manage the outbreak of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East and Central Africa | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper |