selected publications
-
article
- Viewpoint: COVID-19 and seed security response now and beyond. Food Policy. 97:102000. 2020
- Informal Seed Traders: The Backbone of Seed Business and African Smallholder Seed Supply. Sustainability. 12. 2020
- Understanding root, tuber, and banana seed systems and coordination breakdown: a multi-stakeholder framework. Journal of Crop Improvement. 32:599-621. 2018
- The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories. Nucleic Acids Research. 43:589-W598. 2015
- Participatory Plant Breeding with Traders and Farmers for White Pea Bean in Ethiopia.. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 20:497-512. 2014
- The role of evidence in humanitarian assessment: the Seed System Security Assessment and the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis. Disasters. 37. 2013
- Making seed systems more resilient to stress. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 23:644-653. 2013
- Multi-stakeholder framework for intervention in VPC seed systems: potato and sweetpotato applications 2013
- Fatal gaps in seed security strategy. Food Security. 4:569-579. 2012
- BioMart Central Portal: an open database network for the biological community. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION. 2011. 2011
- Development and delivery of bean varieties in Africa: the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) model 2011
- Market access, intensification and productivity of common bean in Ethiopia: A microeconomic analysis. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6:476-487. 2011
- Relative importance of common bean attributes and variety demand in the drought areas of Kenya 2011
- Uganda: dreams of starting a company 2011
- Persistent myths about emergency seed aid. Food Policy. 35:195-201. 2010
- UNDERSTANDING AND STRENGTHENING INFORMAL SEED MARKETS. Experimental Agriculture. 46:119-136. 2010
- Bean Seed Delivery for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Power of Partnerships. Society & Natural Resources. 23:285-302. 2010
- Public-private sector partnerships : The power of small seed packs for reaching 100,000s of kenyan bean farmers 2009
- Seed system security assessment: new methods for understanding farming systems resilience 2009
- Leveraging farmers' strategies for coping with stress: seed aid in Ethiopia. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 18:679-688. 2008
- Moving Towards More Effective Seed Aid. Journal of Development Studies. 44:586-612. 2008
- Leveraging farmers´ strategies for coping with stress: seed aid in Ethiopia 2008
- A new approach for facilitating farmers´ access to bean seed 2007
- Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners 2006
- Addressing seed security in disaster response - linking relief with development 2004
- Drought, civil strife, and seed vouchers & fairs: the role of the trader in the local seed system 2004
- Seed systems and seed relief: an annotated bibliography 2004
- The use of informal seed producer groups for diffusing root-rot resistant varieties during periods of acute stress 2004
- Workshop on Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities (2003, Rome). Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities : Report 2004
- Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding-done from a perspective of farmer plant breeding : a global analysis of issues and of current experience 2003
- Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding-from the perspective of formal plant breeding: a global analysis of issues, results, and current experience 2003
- Understanding seed systems and strengthening seed security 2003
- The role of research institutions in seed-related disaster relief: Seeds of Hope experiences in Rwanda.. Disasters. 26:288-301. 2002
- A framework for analyzing participatory plant breeding approaches and results. Euphytica. 122:439-450. 2001
- Base-broadening for client-oriented impact: insights drawn from participatory plant breeding field experience 2001
- Emergency seed aid In Kenya: a case study of lessons learned 2000
- INSTITUTIONALIZING PARTICIPATORY, CLIENT-DRIVEN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN AGRICULTURE. Development and Change. 26:753-770. 1995
- Rethinking the farmer's role in plant breeding: local bean experts and on-station selection in Rwanda. Experimental Agriculture. 29:509-519. 1993
- The dynamics of adoption: Distribution and mortality of bean varieties among small farmers in Rwanda. Agricultural Systems. 41:441-453. 1993
- Institutionalizing participatory, client-driven research and technology development in agriculture 1992
- Breeding to meet farmers` needs 1989
-
document
- RTB Seed Systems. Conceptual frameworks for guiding practical interventions 2013
- Seed system security assessment: Zimbabwe 2009
- How research is improving response in really high stress systems: emergency seed aid in Africa 2008
- Moving from emergency seed aid to seed security: linking relief with development: proceedings, Oslo May 14th 2008 2008
- When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed systems security 2008
- Developing seed systems with and for the marginalized: case of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in East, Central and Southern Africa 2007
- The quality of science in participatory plant breeding : Macarese, Rome, Italy, IPGRI headquarters, Septemer 30-October 4, 2002 2003
- Assessing the impact of participatory research and gender analysis 2001
- Emergency seed aid in Kenya: a case study of lessons learned 2001
- Fitomejoramiento participativo y derechos de propiedad intelectual 2000
- Methodological challenges for institutionalizing participatory research and development 1997
- Analysis of bean seed channels in the Great Lakes region : South Kivu, Zaire, Southern Rwanda, and select bean-growing zones of Burundi 1994
- Designing seed systems for smallholder farmers: principles derived from bean research in the Great Lakes region of Africa 1994
- Discussion et recommandations: aspects agronomiques et socio-économiques de la sélection et des mélanges variétaux 1993
- Designing bean seed systems for smallholders 1992
- Diagnostique spécifique - haricot commun - à Walungu 1992