Xanthomonas Wilt of Banana (BXW) in Central Africa: Opportunities, challenges, and pathways for citizen science and ICT-based control and prevention strategies

McCampbell, Mariëtte; Schut, Marc; Bergh, I. van den; Schagen, Boudy van; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Blomme, Guy; Gaidashova, Svetlana; Njukwe, Emmanuel; Leeuwis, C.

doi:10.1016/j.njas.2018.03.002

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“…Further, trans-boundary transmission of the disease has been reported. For example, since its outbreak in Uganda in 2001, the disease spread to DR Congo (2001), Rwanda (2002), Tanzania, Kenya (2005), and Burundi (2010) [4]. Unlike other banana diseases, the impact of BXW on bananas is extreme and rapid [2].…”

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Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda

Kikulwe¹,

Kyanjo

Kato

et al. 2019

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Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) is an important emerging and non-curable infectious plant pathogen in sub-Saharan Africa that can cause up to 100% yield loss, negatively impacting sustainable access to food and income to more than 100 million banana farmers. This study disentangles adopters into partial and full adopters to investigate the factors that are relevant to sustain the adoption process of BXW control practices and quantifies the impact of adopting the practices. Data from a randomly selected sample of 1200 banana farmers in Uganda where the disease is endemic was used. A multinomial logit model was used to determine the factors affecting adoption of control practices and augmented inverse probability weighting was employed to estimate the impacts of adoption on banana productivity and sales. Results show that training a woman farmer and having diverse sources of information about BXW control practices increased adoption of the control practices and reduced the disease incidences. Farmers who adopted all the recommended control practices achieved significantly the highest values of banana production and sales. We conclude that improving information access through farmers’ preferred communication channels, having women-inclusive trainings, and a combination of cultural practices are effective ways for sustaining adoption of the control practices.

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Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda

Kikulwe¹,

Kyanjo

Kato

et al. 2019

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“…finance, labor) of managing resistance over time (Ervin and Frisvold 2016). Similarly, lessons from situational studies on banana wilt and potato late blight in Central Africa and Ethiopia demonstrated that the public good features of a disease management strategy depend not only on specific agro-ecological properties of the disease but also on the available technological options and other community-specific social conditions and resources (Damtew et al 2018;Leeuwis et al 2018;McCampbell et al 2018). This has an important implication for the framing of contagious crop diseases, such as late blight, as public bad mainly based on its mobility.…”

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Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

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Lie

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There has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.

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“…The Single Diseased Stem Removal (SDSR) control package is highly effective in controlling the disease and less labor intensive compared to other management practices, as farmers do not need to uproot complete banana mats. Instead, they simply cut stems that show any symptoms of BXW at soil level (McCampbell et al, 2018). In this region, banana production is primarily controlled by men, and extension services have often targeted men.…”

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A Gender Perspective on Pest and Disease Management From the Cases of Roots, Tubers and Bananas in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Considering gender in research on pests and diseases is increasingly important as it facilitates development of more efficient approaches to increasing the adoption of crop protection technologies and practices by women and men farmers according to their roles, knowledge, and capacities. However, this task is often assigned to social scientists in isolation from agronomists. Meanwhile, agronomists often struggle to understand how taking a gender perspective could enrich their research. Drawing on a number of different cases from both published and unpublished field research in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, this perspective article illustrates how a gender perspective can broaden the aspects of agronomy research and thereby contribute to improving crop production and scaling up of existing technologies and practices. Its targeted audience are agronomists and development practitioners, in particular, young researchers who are central to transdisciplinary agricultural research in the future.

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Xanthomonas Wilt of Banana (BXW) in Central Africa: Opportunities, challenges, and pathways for citizen science and ICT-based control and prevention strategies

Cited by 47 publications

References 44 publications

Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda

Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda

Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

A Gender Perspective on Pest and Disease Management From the Cases of Roots, Tubers and Bananas in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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