Successes in African Agriculture - Case Studies: Summaries

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Case Study Summary: Maize Breeding in East & Southern Africa, 1960-2000
from Conference Paper No.2, "Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: Seeds' of Success in Retrospect," by Melinda Smale and Thomas Jayne
Case Study Summary: Cotton in West Africa, 1960-2000
from Conference Paper No. 4, "Mali’s White Revolution: Smallholder Cotton from 1960 to 2003," by James Tefft
Case Study Summary: Dairying in Kenya, 1900 - 2003
from Conference Papers No.5 and 6, "Smallholder Dairying in Eastern Africa," by Margaret Ngigi and "Dairy Development in Ethiopia," by Mohamed Ahmed, Simeon Ehui and Yemesrach Assefa
Case Study Summary: Horticulture Exports from Kenya
from Conference Paper No.7, "Are Horticultural Exports a Replicable Success Story? Evidence from Kenya" and Cote d╎Ivoire, by Nicholas Minot and Margaret Ngigi
Case Study Summary: Cassava Transformation in Nigeria
from Conference Paper No.8, "New Challenges in the Cassava Transformation in Nigeria and Ghana," by Felix Nweke
Case Study Summary: Zambia's Cassava Surge
from Conference Paper No.9, "The Cassava Surge in Zambia and Malawi," by Steven Haggblade and Ballard Zulu
Case Study Summary: Burkina's Zaï, 1980 - 2003
from Conference Paper No.10, "The Emergence and Spreading of an Improved SWC Practice in Burkina Faso," by Daniel Kabore and Chris Reij
Case Study Summary: Conservation Farming in Zambia
from Conference Paper No.11, Conservation Farming in Zambia, by Steven Haggblade and Gelson Tembo
Case Study Summary: Improved Fallows, 1990 - 2003
from Conference Papers No.12 and 13, "Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia and Western Kenya," by Kwesiga, Place, Franzel, Mafongoya, Ajayi, Noordin, Phiri, Jama, Katanga, Kuntashula, and Chirwa
Case Study Supplement: Combatting Cassava Mosaic Virus in Uganda
from "Saving a Nation Beseiged" by the University of Greenwich

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