CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas - RTB

Overview: BA3.4 - Improving the livelihoods of smallholder banana producers in Asia and Africa through recovery and containment of banana bunchy top disease

BA3.3 - CA3.5


Leader Lava Kumar, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture - IITA

Team members: 9
Partner organizations: 6

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  5


  Description
    
The aim of the cluster is to develop approaches, detection tools and holistic and cost-effective practices for recovery from and containment of BBTD
  Key Documents
    
  Atlas
    
   Key Results
    
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
BA3.4.1 Integrated approaches to recover banana production and controlling BBTD, including clean seed and community replanting Lava Kumar 4
BA3.4.2 Improved understanding of host-virus dynamics and disease ecology Lava Kumar 4
BA3.4.3 Tools for more effective quarantine, exclusion and containment strategies Lava Kumar 2
BA3.4.4 BBTD resistant cultivars and biocontrol solutions for banana aphid Lava Kumar 2
BA3.4.5 Validated approaches to integrate BBTD management into cropping systems, farms and landscapes based on household gender and generational understanding Lava Kumar 3
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Outcomes and Impact
    
Code Outcomes and Impact Type Indicators View
DO3.4.1 Rural communities and households mobilize knowledge and practices to recover and maintain banana production in spite of the presence of BBTD development outcome 2
DO3.4.2 Banana growing areas of West, East and southern Africa and to Latin America continue to produce banana without the threat of BBTD for a longer time period development outcome 0
RO3.4.1 Banana research and development stakeholders plan more effective BBTD quarantine, containment and recovery programs based on improved understanding of BBTD epidemiology research outcome 2
RO3.4.2 Better surveillance and diagnostic tools implemented by international and national research programs for BBTD control research outcome 1
RO3.4.3 Field organizations, seed and biocontrol suppliers and value chain actors redesign banana recovery programs in BBTD-affected areas with new technologies research outcome 5
  Personnel Involved
    
  Partners