| 9:00-9:30 | Plenary Session 5 | Main Hall |
| Keynote Speech: Delivering African agricultural productivity and food security through a Green Revolution: prospects and challenges
Namanga Ngongi, AGRA Discussant: Seyfu Ketema, ASARECA |
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| 9:30-11:00 | Parallel Paper Session 3 | |
| Session 3A: Science, technology, and innovation for increasing agricultural productivity Chair: Aggrey Agumya, FARA |
Main hall | |
| Phosphorus use efficiency in Amaranth (Amaranthus Cruentus L.)
O. David Ojo, A. Akinrinde Ezekiel, O. Akorada Malachy |
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| Effect of post anthesis moisture stress on performance of stay green sorghum hybrid in eastern province of Kenya
T. Okiyo, S. Gudu, O. Kiplagat, J. Owuoche |
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| Action research in partnerships for agricultural innovations: lessons learnt from a Cameroonian experience in Grand-South Cameroon
N.A. Onguene, F. Ngo Nonga, M. Havard, Bella-Manga, P. Pédelahore |
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| Do organizational factors affect individual scientist’s productivity? a comparative and multilevel analysis of Nigeria and Ghana agricultural research systems
Catherine Ragasa |
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| Session 3B: Agriculture, nutrition, and health linkages Chair: Boitshepo Bibi Giyose, NEPAD-PCA |
Conference Room 1 | |
| The interaction between health and farm labor productivity in Africa
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Daniel Ayalew Mekonnen |
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| A synergetic linkage between agriculture, nutrition, and health
Foluso Temitope Agulanna |
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| The impact of HIV/AIDS on the productivity of farm households in Abia State, Nigeria
O.R. Iheke , C.A Okezie, A.O. Onyekanma |
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| Health shocks and agricultural production: evidence from Ghana
Isaac Osei-Akoto, Clement Adamba, Robert Osei-Darko |
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| Session 3C: Agriculture and climate change mitigation and adaptation Chair: Sokona Youba, UNECA |
Conference Room 2 | |
| The impact of climate change in Mozambique’s agriculture
Verona Parkinso, Firmino G. Mucavele |
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| The micro-economics of climate change adaptation in maize production: the case of Murewa District in Zimbabwe
Medicine Massiwa |
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| Approximating the cost of soil carbon sequestration on Mt. Kilimanjaro using dynamic optimization model
Francis Mulangu, David Kraybill |
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| Targeted food security and carbon benefits from soil fertility replenishment agroforestry technologies
Tracy Beedy, Frank M. Place, Jules Bayala, Antoine Kalinganire |
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| Integrated global assessment of the economics of land degradation: the case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Ephraim Nkonya, Nicolas Gerber, Philipp Baumgartner, Joachim von Braun, Alex De Pinto, Valerie Graw, Edward Kato, Julia Kloos, Teresa Walter |
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| 11:00-11:30 | break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Plenary Session 6 | Main Hall |
| Panel Discussion: Agriculture transformation in Africa
Chair: Khalid Bomba, ATA-Ethiopia |
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| The dynamics of technological transformation of the agricultural sector in Africa: a story of bad products trap
John Ulimwengu, Badibanga Thaddee |
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| Sustainable intensification for Africa: a case study from Malawi
Klaus Droppelman, Sieglinde Snapp, Peter Gaff, Wezi Mhango |
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| Implications of taxes and missing public goods on fertilizer supply to smallholder farmers in Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique
Todd Benson |
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| Agricultural productivity in Ethiopia and challenges to further growth
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Fantu Nisrane |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Plenary Session 7 | Main Hall |
| Keynote Speech: Strengthening capacity for agricultural science and technology in Africa Yusuf Abubakar, ARCN Discussant: Dorothy Mukhebi, AWARD |
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| 14:30-16:00 | Plenary Session 8 | Main Hall |
| Strategies for Raising and Sustaining High Agricultural Productivity in Africa Chair: Samuel Benin, IFPRI Organized by: Regional Strategic Analysis & Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) |
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| Trends and spatial analysis of agricultural productivity
Zhe Guo |
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| Determinants of agricultural productivity growth and economic analysis of alternative strategies for raising agricultural productivity
Alejandro Nin Pratt |
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| Case studies of successful and failed agricultural investment programs
Joseph Karugia, Mbaye Yade, Emmanuel Mubasa, Claude Bizimana |
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| Strategies for raising agricultural productivity: a typology of agricultural productivity zones
Bingxin Yu |
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| 16:00-16:30 | break | |
| 16:30-17:15 | Parallel Poster Session 2 | |
| Session 2A: Participatory radio: an effective model for enhancing food security in Africa Organized by: Farm Radio International Presenters: Fryhiwot Nadew, Farm Radio International Mark Leclair, Farm Radio International Sheila Rao, Farm Radio International |
Foyer, Africa Hall | |
| Session 2B: Agriculture, nutrition, and health linkages
Chair: Disha Ali, IFPRI |
Foyer, Africa Hall | |
| Sweet potato product development in Ghana: towards alleviation of nutritional deficiencies in women and children
E. Adu-Kwarteng, I.O.O. Ansah, Regina Sagoe, Stephen Amoah |
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| Exploring new metrics: Nutritional diversity of cropping systems
Roseline Remans, Dan F.B. Flynn, Fabrice Declerck, Willy Diru, Jessica Fanzo, Kaitlyn Graynor, Isabel Lambrecht, Joseph Mudiope, Patrick K. Mutuo, Phelire Nkhoma, David Siriri, Clare Sulivan, Cheryl A. Palm |
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| Rice farmers’ productivity in Nigeria: how has malaria not helped?
S.O.M. Awoniyi, T.T. Amos, M.M. Omole |
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| Home gardening as a coping strategy for urban and peri-urban households: the case of Mutare City, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe
Mrema May, Chitiyo Fortunate |
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| Session 2C: Agriculture and climate change mitigation & adaptation
Chair: Guush Berhane, IFPRI |
Foyer, Africa Hall | |
| Contribution of conservation agriculture in rain-fed crop water productivity improvement: a case study of maize rain-fed system in central Malawi
Lameck Fiwa, Kefasi J. Kamoyo |
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| Farmers’ adaptation to climate in the Chivi district of Zimbabwe
Evengelista Mudzonga |
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| Economic assessment of investment in soil conservation: the case of erosion control facilities in the catchment of Lake Lagdo in Cameroon
Ngondjeb Yong Dorothé |
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| Watermelon (citrullus lanatus): live mulch climate change adaptation capabilities in Amaranth cropping system
O.D. Ojo, S.O. Taiwo, A. A. Kintomo |
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| Deficit irrigation and productivity of some selected crops
J.D. Owusu-Sekyere, J. A. Andoh |
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| 17:15-18:00 | Plenary session 9 | Main Hall |
| Keynote Speech: Scenarios for the future of the small farm in Africa Philip Kiriro, EAFF Discussants: Castro Caramada, FAO Steven Were Omamo, WFP |
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| 19:30-21:30 | International Buffet Dinner
Invited speaker: Ato Newai Gebreab, Director, Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and Senior Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Sponsored by: EDRI and Ethiopia Strategy Support Program, IFPRI |
Hilton Hotel Ballroom II and Ibex Nyala |