Banana systems in the humid highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa : enhancing resilience and productivity /

• Corporate Author: International Conference on "Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa" (2011 : Kigali, Rwanda)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Bananas > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Plantain banana > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Information and Documentation.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Crop Produce.; Food Composition and Quality.; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Human Nutrition (General); Musa.; Bananas.; Cropping systems.; Diffusion of information.; Germplasm.; Great Lakes (Africa); Highlands.; Innovation adoption.; Intensification.; Nutrition.; Nutritive value.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Seeds.
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This book addresses issues related to intensification of banana-based cropping systems in the (sub)humid highland areas of Africa. The information that is presented in the 28 chapters of the book is based on research carried out in the Great Lakes Region by CIALCA (Consortium for Improving Agricultu...

Table of Contents:

• Musa germplasm diversity and evaluation
• Novel seed systems
• Banana pests and diseases
• Banana intercropping systems
• Banana use, postharvest and nutrition
• Surveillance, adoption and communicating knowledge.