Estimated closeness index and ranking of technologies in semi-arid eastern Africa.

<p>Tech: 1: Intercropping compatible-varieties and integrated crop management options; 2: Early-maturing varieties and hybrids with tolerance to drought; 3: Fusarium wilt- and Cercospora leaf spot-resistant varieties; 4: Ascochyta blight-resistant varieties; 5: Photo- and thermo-insensitive varieties;6: Stem borer/midge-tolerant cultivars; 7: Striga-resistant varieties and hybrids; 8: Drought-tolerant/resistant variety and short-duration (early-maturing) variety 9: Fusarium wilt- and root rots-resistant varieties; 10: Validate and promote water management options; fertilizer regimes; 11: Cleisto varieties and maintenance breeding to reduce varietal degeneration due to out crossing; 12: Drought-tolerant varieties; 13: Integrated crop management options for soil fertility, water management, Striga, intercropping; 14: Pre and postharvest aflatoxin management practices including Good Agricultural Practices (GAP); 15: Varieties and hybrid parents with good establishment and respond well to drought especially terminal drought; 16: Drought-tolerant varieties; 17: Validate and promote water management options; fertilizer regimes; 18: Varieties tolerant to pod borers, pod fly, pod bugs and integrated pest management; 19: Varieties and hybrid parents with good establishment and that respond well to drought, especially terminal drought; 20: Early-maturing, drought-tolerant hybrids which can give stable yields under severe drought conditions; 21: Drought-tolerant varieties and integrated crop management; 22: Insect- (aphid, thrips, pod sucking bug, maruca) resistant lines and integrated crop management; 23: Rosette-resistant variety; 24: Genetically diverse dual-purpose hybrid parents/cultivars with high and stable yields with disease resistance (downy mildew and blast); 25: Early-maturing, drought-tolerant OPVs and hybrids which can give stable yields under severe drought conditions; 26: Moderately-resistant variety (for short-duration variety) and highly-resistant variety (for medium- and long-duration varieties) to early and late leaf spot; 27: Soil fertility management for P and other nutrients (N, Ca) including chemical/organic fertilizers application; 28: Downy mildew- and smut-resistant dual-purpose OPVs and hybrid parents; 29: Low P-tolerant varieties and integrated crop management; 30: Striga-resistant varieties and integrated crop management; 31: Waterlogging-tolerant varieties and management practices; 32: OPVs with host plant resistance to Striga hermonthica; 33: Drought-tolerant varieties; 34: Low P-tolerant/efficient variety; 35: Disease-resistant varieties and integrated crop management; 36: Weed management; 37: Ascochyta blight-resistant varieties; 38: Rust-resistant varieties.</p> <p>(DOCX)</p>