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Mengistu Alemayehu (Ethiopia)

Focus of Fellowship:The traction ability of Sheko steers in the medium to high tryps challenge area of the Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia .

The sponsoring Center is ILRI.

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Mohamed El-Sayed Mohamed El-Boushy (Egypt)

Focus of Fellowship:Assessment of the impact of common zoonotic and food borne bacteria on fish and human health and proposed control measures .

The sponsoring Center is WorldFish Center.

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Yagya P. Giri (Nepal)

Focus of Fellowship:Analysis of the impact of pests, especially the expansion of the non-indigenous and highly invasive potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella), in Nepal in terms of losses in agricultural production and environmental contamination and human health due to pesticide use .

The sponsoring Center is CIP.

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Nelli Hovhannisyan (Armenia) - Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship

Focus of Fellowship: Conservation and assessment of wild wheat for disease resistance in Armenia .

The sponsoring Center is Bioversity International.

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G. Kalyani (India)

Focus of Fellowship: Development and evaluation of transgenic groundnut plants for resistance against foliar fungal diseases (Late leaf spot and rust) .

The sponsoring Center is ICRISAT.

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Charles Lung'aho Shem (Kenya)

Focus of Fellowship:Assessment of the genetic diversity of potato cultivars in Kenya using molecular markers.

The sponsoring Center is CIP.

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John Manful (Ghana)

Focus of Fellowship:Transfer of knowledge about one genotype of rice in West Africa, O. Sativa, to another, O. Glaberrima, to enable evaluation of quality in African rice and creation of a database containing genotype and phenotype of glaberimma accessions for four traits of rice quality.

The sponsoring Center is IRRI.

Completion Report: Pending

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Marie Noël Y. Toualy (Côte d'Ivoire)

Focus of Fellowship:Development of a rapid and simple virus-detection test (Dioscorea spp.) as part of certification programs in West Africa to control viruses affecting yams by selecting healthy yam seeds.

The sponsoring Center is IITA.

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Shokalu Olumide (Nigeria)

Focus of Fellowship:Evaluation of advanced breeding lines of soybean resistant to Rust (Phakpsora pachyrhizi) in Nigeria .

The sponsoring Center is IITA.

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Boaz Shaban Waswa (Kenya)

Focus of Fellowship: Increasing agricultural water and nutrient use efficiency to meet future food production: an application of decision support tools and nuclear techniques.

The sponsoring Center is CIAT.

Completion Report: Pending

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Thomas Yatich T.B. (Kenya)

Focus of Fellowship: Evaluation of the magnitude and geographical distribution of ecosystem services, value of agricultural production and Malaria in the face of climatic variability in Western Kenya Highlands.

The sponsoring Center is World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).

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Changbin Yin (China)

Focus of Fellowship:Utilization of chromosome segment substitution lines in genetic study and plant breeding .

The sponsoring Center is CIMMYT.

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Oleg Znay (Uzbekistan) - Wilfried Thalwitz Memorial Scholarship

Focus of Fellowship:Improve water allocation policy and prepare an adaptation plan through the simulation of water allocation scenarios in Syr Darya River, under different driving scenarios of climate change.

The sponsoring Center is IWMI.

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