Coordinating Lead Authors:
Joan Kagwanja (Kenya) and Elizabeth Robinson (UK)
Lead Authors:
Evelyn Apili (Uganda), Gezahegne Ayele (Ethiopia), John Bakang
(Ghana), Chiedza L. Muchopa (Zimbabwe)
Contributing authors:
Wisdom Akpalu (Ghana), Susan Kaaria (Kenya), Razack Lokina
(Tanzania)
Review Editors:
Assefa Admassie (Ethiopia) and Aduni Sanni (Nigeria)
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Key Messages
5.1 Governance, Institutions, and Funding 98
5.2 Generation, Access and Application of AKST 100
5.2.1 Appropriate technologies 100
5.2.1.1 Participatory approaches to R&D 101
5.2.1.2 Technologies responsive to diverse farming systems 102
5.2.1.3 Agricultural extension and capacity-building
opportunities 103
5.2.2 Soil variability 104
5.2.3 Patents for biotechnologies and GM technologies 105
5.3 Enhancing Agricultural Product Value Chains 105
5.4 Enhancing the Contribution of Women to Agriculture 107
5.5 Sustainable Use of Land and Water Resources 109
5.5.1 Land: Limiting conditions and available alternatives 109
5.5.2 Water: Limiting conditions and available alternatives 112
5.5.3 Incentives and motivation for change 113
5.5.3.1 Fiscal incentives 114
5.5.3.2 Land tenure 115
5.6 Crop and Livestock Diversity 116
5.6.1 Safeguarding and maximizing potential of genetic
resources 116
5.6.2 Managing agricultural and wildlife diversity 117
5.7 Forests and Agroforestry 118
5.7.1 Creating market incentives 119
5.7.2 Forests and energy 120
5.8 Fisheries and Aquaculture 120
5.9 Health and Nutrition 122 |