<p> Third Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture Biennial Conference</p><p>THEME: Partnerships & Networking for Strengthening Agricultural Innovation and Higher Education in Africa; 24-28 September, 2012; Imperial Resort Beach Hotel and Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda</p><p>List of Poster Presentations</p><p>Value Chains & Innovation Platforms 12. Development and Adoption of Technologies for Improving smallholder Dairying and Nutrition in Malawi 1. Analysis Of The Green Gram Value Chain In Uganda</p><p>2. Improving profitability of the Mango Value Chain through 13. Assessment of goat production systems and socio-economic factors affecting Strategies for Off-season Flower Induction, Reliable maturity Indices and demand of goat and goat meat in Malawi Applicable Postharvest Technologies 14. Quality And Processing Potential Of Goats Produced By Smallholder Farmers In Malawi</p><p>Animals and Fisheries 15. 3. Assessment of socio-economic factors affecting demand of goat and goat meat in Ecto and Endo Parasites in Free Range Chickens in Mbeere District in Kenya Malawi</p><p>4. Intensive and Multi-type Parasite Infections – A Hindrance to Effective Newcastle 16. Contribution of mud crab fattening and fishery to the livelihood communities of Disease Control in Village Chickens? Pangani and Rufiji Estuarie</p><p>5. Participatory control of Newcastle disease in village poultry using thermostable 17. Participatory control of Newcastle disease in village poultry using thermostable vaccines in Uganda vaccines in Uganda</p><p>6. Seasonal Newcastle disease antibody titre levels in village chickens of Mbeere 18. Integrating Rice And Fish Polyculture To Improve Rice Yields And Food Security In District, Kenya Mwea, Kenya</p><p>7. An assessment of the socio-economic factors affecting the demand for goats and 19. Integrating Fish Polyculture And Poultry/Sericulture Into Rice Fields In Mwea goat meat in Malawi: A case study of Manjawira and Ntcheu markets in Ntcheu Irrigation Scheme, Kenya</p><p>8. Development of Management Practices for Sustainable Improvement of Indigenous 20. Impact Of Thermostable Newcastle Disease Vaccination On Productivity Of Free Goats in Tanzania Ranging Indigenous Chicken In Iganga District</p><p>9. Production Performance and Contribution of Dairy Goats to Income of Small Scale Innovations in Agricultural Information, Communication & Farmers in Babati and Kongwa districts, Tanzania Knowledge Management 10. Evaluation of locally available feed resources for dairy goat feeding in Kongwa 21. District, Tanzania Estimation of Teff Crop Yield Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia</p><p>11. Developing and evaluating protein concentrate based on soybean, sunflower cake 22. and cotton seedcake in Lilongwe milkshed area An Assessment of the processes and pathways to achieve innovation in Conservation Agriculture in Malawi</p><p>RUFORUM BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 24-28 SEPTEMBER, 2012- ENTEBBE, UGANDA 1 Climate Change and Agriculture 37. Combining ability among interspecific (G. hirsutum x G. barbadense) and mutation 23. Assessment of uranium transfer to food chain and its effects to health of Bahi. derived lines of cotton in fiber quality and agronomic traits. Bbebe, N. , Siamasonta, Community in Tanzania B.M. and Lungu, D.M. </p><p>24. Determination of uranium concentration in selected agriculture soils of Bah District in 38. Improving Biological Nitrogen Fixation (Bnf) By Groundnuts (Arachis Hypogea L.) Tanzania and its uptake by food crops Acid Soils Through Amendment With Dolomitic And Calcitic Limestones</p><p>25. Developing Suitable Soil Water Conservation Techniques for Adaptation and 39. Soybean Rust Diversity And Adaptability Of Elite Soybean Lines To Ugandan Local Mitigation of Climate Change on Yield of Teff, [Eragrostis teff (Zucc.) Trotter] in Environment Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. 40. 26. Stability Of Barley Genotypes For Earliness, Resistance To Leaf Scald Disease And Effect of Uranium Contamination in Selected Tanzanian Agricultural Soils and its Yield In Ethiopia Transfer in Food Chains 41. 27. Selection for pod quality and multiple disease resistance in bush and climbing snap Enhancing farmers’ adaptation to climate change by integrating traditional and beans conventional drought prediction and preparedness techniques in Kenyan Central Highlands 42. Development, dissemination and promotion of improved barley varieties in drought prone areas in Ethiopia 28. The effect of climate change variability on abundance of mud crab in Pangani estuary Tanzania. Integrated Crop Management 43. 29. Management of mycotoxins in wheat: Assessment of the role of plant residues, Assessment Of Host Status Of Banana Fruits At Harvest Maturity Stage To The cropping systems and diversity of fungal species on mycotoxin contamination of Invasive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Invadens, (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Mozambique wheat 44. 30. Development and Evaluation of models for predicting chemical contaminant Assessment of the invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens (Diptera: Tethritidae), fruit migration in foods infestation and damage in Mozambique</p><p>45. 31. Impact of climate change on mangrove crab (Scylla serrata) fattening and its Determination of whitefly transmissibility and opportunistic aphid transmissibility of implication on the livelihoods of coastal communities of Tanzania Sweet potato mild mottle virus in co-infection with a potyvirus and crinivirus in sweetpotato </p><p>Plant Breeding and Seed Systems 46. 32. Insect-host preferences and epidemiological significance of whiteflies, aphids and Establishment Of A Rapid In Vitro System For Regeneration Of Papaya Plantlets In A other insect species in the transmission of Sweet potato mild mottle virus to sweet Liquid Media potato in four selected districts of Uganda 47. The incidence of root knot nematodes in vegetable crops in western Kenya 33. Farmers contribution to the varieties/lines selection to drought tolerant in Benin 34. Inheritance of tolerance to intermittent drought from selected potato (Solanum 48. The use of Crotalaria species in management of plant-parasitic nematodes of tuberosum) cultivars in south western Uganda vegetables</p><p>35. Mass propagation of selected Kenyan papaya planting materials through shoot tip 49. Types of indigenous vegetables and cropping systems used in Western Kenya culture</p><p>50. On farm evaluation of legumes biomass in the management of Striga in Iringa district, 36. Production of disease-free papaya (Carica papaya L.) planting materials of known Tanzania sex for commercial fruit production</p><p>RUFORUM BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 24-28 SEPTEMBER, 2012- ENTEBBE, UGANDA 2 51. Legume biomass transfer for enhancing productivity of maize in Striga infested 65. farmlands: the case of Iringa district, Tanzania. Diversity And Symbiotic Effectiveness Of Acid Tolerant Groundnut Rhizobia In Western Kenya Soils 52. Assessment of genetic diversity and resistance to Phakopsora pachyrhizi in soybean 66. germplasm in Uganda Effect of Integrated Water and Nutrient Management Technologies on soil profile moisture content and grain water productivity in Zimbabwe. </p><p>53. Evaluation of root- knot nematode management strategies based on their distribution 67. Enhancing Phosphorus Release From Rock Phosphate Using White Lupin in tomato fields in Mwea, Kenya. (Lupinus Albus L. Cv. Amiga) And Chickpea (Cicer Arietinum L.)</p><p>54. Towards development of Site specific technologies for identification of fields infested 68. with root-knot nematodes (RKN) under tomato cropping system in Mwea, Kenya Influence of legume biomass on soil fertility status and maize performance in Striga infested soils of Iringa, Tanzania 55. Evaluation of Metarhizium anisopliae for Integrated Management of Termites on 69. Maize (Zea mays) under field conditions; case study Siaya and Sega. Setting out to evaluate rain water harvesting (RWH) for crop production at Botswana College of Agriculture</p><p>56. Spatial Distribution and Health Status of Urban Agricultural Production Systems in 70. Evaluation the impact of human activits on biodiversity conservation in particular the City of Nairobi, Kenya for mopane in Mabalane District</p><p>71. Natural Resource Management Evaluation of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) for crop production in semi-arid Botswana 57. Determinants of Adoption and Utilization of Integrated Soil Fertility Management by Small holders in Central Kenya 72. Mobilization Of Phosphorus From Rock Phosphate By White Lupin And Chickpea For Enhanced Soil Fertility And Maize Yield 58. Gender Roles In Soil Fertility And Water Management For Maize (Zea Mays L) Production In Urban Agriculture: A Case For Harare, Zimbabwe 73. Effect Of Chickpea (Cicer Arietinum L) And Lupin (Lupinus Albus) On Phosphorus 59. Release From Minjingu Rock Phosphate, Soil Available N And Sorghum Yields In Improving rainwater use efficiency in Teff for enhancing adaptation to climate Njoro, Kenya variability and climate change in the northern Ethiopia 74. 60. African Nightshade distribution in Kenya agroecologies in response to phosphorus Model-based Evaluation of Potential Farmers’ Benefits from ISFM through Soil-Water and water status: phenolics and related antioxidant profiling Conservation in Relation to Changing Climatic Indices in Kenyan Central highlands </p><p>75. Improving water management for irrigated rice production in the South-Kivu 61. Predicting Teff (Eragrostis tef) Yield Using AquaCrop Model under various water province, DR Congo availability Conditions: A case study in Northern Ethiopia 76. Effect of tillage on soil moisture content and crop performance in maize-bean </p><p>62. Short-term effects of soil fertility, tillage and residues management on soil organic based intercropping system in semi-arid area of Mawala district, Kenya carbon, aggregate stability and water infiltration on a sandy soil in urban agriculture, Harare 77. Spatial dynamics of Mopane ecosystem degradation and its association with 63. Effect of Integrated Water and Nutrient Management Technologies on soil profile wildfires in Mabalane, southern Mozambique: what implications for biodiversity and people’s livelihoods? moisture content and grain water productivity in Zimbabwe. </p><p>64. Effectiveness Of Bradyrhizobia And Lime On A Groundnut /Maize Intercrop In Acid 78. Above-ground biomass and carbon stocks of different land cover types in mountain Soils Of Western Kenya Elgon region, Eastern Uganda </p><p>RUFORUM BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 24-28 SEPTEMBER, 2012- ENTEBBE, UGANDA 3 Other submissions </p><p>79. Fffff 80. Ggggg 81. Jjjjj</p><p>RUFORUM BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 24-28 SEPTEMBER, 2012- ENTEBBE, UGANDA 4</p>