iii CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THESIS OUTLINE 1 CHAPTER 2: SURVEY OF GRAIN AMARANTH PRODUCTION AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN KAMULI DISTRICT OF UGANDA 48 CHAPTER 3: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-STATION EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 76 CHAPTER 4: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-FARM EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 139 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 176 APPENDIX I: AMARANTH SURVEY 187 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 189

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doctoral studies are carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research environments and doctoral studies mainly in graduate schools. Jointly, they publish the series Linköping Studies in Arts and Science. This thesis comes from the Division of Health and Sciences at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 1. INTRODUCTI...

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Robert E. Bodenheimer for giving me the opportunity to work with him and also for guiding me through the course of my thesis work. I would also like to thank Dr. Benoit Dawant for helping me shape my work and giving valuable suggestions which helped complete this thesis. Last but not the least, I would like to express my thanks to my family ...

Ich erkläre hiermit, dass ich die vor-liegende Arbeit selbständig verfasst und keine anderen als die angegebe-nen Quellen und Hilfsmittel verwen-det habe. I hereby declare that I have written this thesis by myself, and that I did not use any sources or tools other than the ones declared in the thesis. Acknowledgements My thanks go to all those who have supported me during the work for this thes...

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