R. Roothaert
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View article: Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia
Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia Open
Home garden interventions combining training in agriculture and nutrition have the potential to increase vegetable production and consumption in lower-income countries, but there remains a need for better evidence for impact. This study co…
View article: Impact of home garden interventions in East Africa: Results of three randomized controlled trials
Impact of home garden interventions in East Africa: Results of three randomized controlled trials Open
Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest per capita consumption of vegetables of all regions in the world. As low vegetable consumption is associated with poor human health, there is need for effective policies and interventions to increase it. H…
View article: Policies, Multi-Stakeholder Approaches and Home-Grown School Feeding Programs for Improving Quality, Equity and Sustainability of School Meals in Northern Tanzania
Policies, Multi-Stakeholder Approaches and Home-Grown School Feeding Programs for Improving Quality, Equity and Sustainability of School Meals in Northern Tanzania Open
Malnutrition among children of school-going age is a challenge of serious concern in developing countries especially Sub-Saharan Africa. Many programs focus on mothers and under-5-year-old children, leaving the school going age unattended.…
View article: Connecting genebanks to farmers in East Africa through the distribution of vegetable seed kits
Connecting genebanks to farmers in East Africa through the distribution of vegetable seed kits Open
Genebanks explore new partnerships with farmers and other user groups to provide smallholder farmers in Africa better access to crop diversity for improved nutrition, climate change adaptation and agricultural diversification. This paper s…
View article: Forage utilisation in smallholder systems - African and SE Asian perspectives
Forage utilisation in smallholder systems - African and SE Asian perspectives Open
-some facts and numbers
\n-how are forages used in smallholder systems in Africa and Asia?
\nempirical evidence of benefits from forages
\n-what are the smallholder challenges?
\n-what are our R4D challenges?
View article: Forage technologies as a vehicle to mainstream participatory research in East Africa
Forage technologies as a vehicle to mainstream participatory research in East Africa Open
-Livestock and participatory research
\n-Institutionalization - the ILRI process
\n-Plan of action for networking PR and GA in forage research in East Africa