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Table of contents
An introduction to the Research Fellow
Partnership Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Understanding the views of poor households
in rural municipalities
Sandra Contzen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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Capacity development
Research fellowships
Enhancing the livelihood of the local population
in a biodiversity hotspot
Lanto Herilala Andriambelo,
Clémence Dirac Ramohavelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Understanding yam (Dioscorea spp.) response
to fertiliser application
Valéry Kouamé Hgaza Kouassi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Control options for the
African root and tuber scale on cassava
Apollin Fotso Kuate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Analysis and initial exploitation of resistance to
wheat stem rust race Ug99
Peter Njoroge Njau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Estimating effective population size for
the conservation of African cattle breeds
Christine Flury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Mycorrhizas and maize yields in different land-use
systems in Southern Cameroon
Martin Jemo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Exploring the effects of anti-tick vaccines
on the transmission of Theileria parva
Cassandra Leah Olds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The role of cooperativeness in adopting
sustainable common resource management
Carina Cavalcanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Governance, collective action and development
interventions in vegetable value chains
Marc Zoss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Behavioural heterogeneity and human cooperation
Devesh Rustagi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The importance of forest fragments
in local livelihood systems
Zora Lea Urech,
Mihajamanana Fetra Rabenilalana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Ethanol production impacts on land use and deforestation
Saraly Andrade de Sa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Phosphate nutrition of crops in lixisols
from semi-arid West Africa
Delwendé Innocent Kiba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Characterisation of drought tolerance
in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Charles Orek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Whole genome profiling of Theileria parva isolates
Sonal Patel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Healthy rice for healthy people: Biofortification of zinc in rice
Somayanda Impa Muthappa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Farmers’ responses to climate change in
northern and central areas of Côte d’Ivoire
Hermann Daisy N’nhon Comoé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83