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Ethiopia's 'livestock roadmaps' for growth and transformation to a middle-income nation by MacMillan, Susan

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Characterizing fruit ripening in plantain and Cavendish bananas: A proteomics approach by Bhuiyan, F., Campos, N.A., Swennen, Rony L., Carpentier, Sebastien C.

“…Multivariate analysis of the proteins was performed correlated to the starch dynamics. A drop in sucrose synthase and a rise of acid invertase during ripening indicated a change in the balance of the sucrose fate. …”
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Automated irrigation as a game-changer in sub-Saharan Africa: Is it enough? by Kizito, Fred

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A review of gender and sustainable land management: Implications for research and development by Bullock, Renee, Kariuki, J.

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Governing a collective bad: Social learning in the management of crop diseases by Damtew, Elias, Mierlo, B. van, Lie, R., Struik, P.C., Leeuwis, Cees, Lemaga, B., Smart, C.D.

“…A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. …”
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COPO: a metadata platform for brokering FAIR data in the life sciences by Etuk, A., Shaw, F., González Beltran, A., Johnson, D., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Rocca Serra, Philippe, Arnaud, Elizabeth, Devare, Medha, Kersey, Paul J., Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Davey, R.P.

“…That said, we have come a long way in the last decade, with funders, publishers, and researchers themselves making the case for open, interoperable data as a key component of an open science philosophy. …”
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Informally marketed meat in South Africa: A qualitative risk assessment by Heeb, A., McCrindle, C.M.E., Zárate, Anne Valle, Ramrajh, S., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Makita, K., Grace, Delia

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Looking at land and water management issues through a livelihoods lens? by Cullen, Beth, Belay, A., Snyder, Katherine A., Ergano, Kebebe, Duncan, Alan J.

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Livestock feed feasibility mapping in East Africa – a scoping study by Fraval, Simon, Mutua, John Y., Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Thornton, Philip K., Duncan, Alan J.

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Important biotic challenges for forage development in east Africa- A report by Mwendia, Solomon W., Nzogela, Beatus, Odhiambo, Ruth, Mutua, John Y., Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

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Global and regional potential of wastewater as a water, nutrient and energy source by Qadir, Manzoor, Drechsel, Pay, Cisneros, B.J., Kim, Y., Pramanik, A., Mehta, P., Olaniyan, O.

“…There is a proactive interest in recovering water, nutrients and energy from waste streams with the increase in municipal wastewater volumes and innovations in resource recovery. …”
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Worms in smallholder livestock systems: Technologies and practices that make a difference by Gray, G.D., Connell, J.G., Phimphachanhvongsod, V.

“…Thus, it is essential that farmers, extension workers, and scientists jointly decide what technologies to try, what results mean and, if successful, how to sustain their use. In one Asian example a range of technologies were considered for pig, large ruminant and goat production and parasite control through a participatory process which was also used to agree on what determines sustainability beyond testing. …”
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Assessing soil health benefits of forage grasses - A review of methods by Korir, Mercy Jebet, Paul, Birthe K., Nyawira, Sylvia Sarah

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Pathways out of poverty: a novel typology of animal diseases and their impacts by Perry, Brian D., Randolph, Thomas F., McDermott, John J., Sones, Keith R.

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Management of aflatoxins in maize and groundnuts in Kenya: a farmers' training manual by Atehnkeng, J., Mutegi, D., Ortega Beltran, A., Augusto, J., Akande, A., Senghor, L.A., Falade, Titilayo D.O., Akello, J., Cotty, P.J., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit

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Post-harvest technology change in cassava processing: a choice paradigm by Adejumo, O., Okoruwa, V., Abass, A., Salman, K.

“…This study employed a choice model to examine the factors influencing the choice of post-harvest technologies in cassava starch processing, using a sample of five hundred and seventy (570) processors in the forest and guinea savanna zones of Nigeria. …”
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Policy actions for building resilience of fisheries development in a changing climate by Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya

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Increasing nitrogen export to sea: a scenario analysis for the Indus River by Wang, M., Tang, T., Burek, P., Havlik, Petr, Krisztin, T., Kroeze, C., Leclère, D., Strokal, M., Wada, Y., Wang, Y., Langan, Simon J.

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Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops by Williams, Frances E., Taron, Avinandan

“…This paper assesses women’s access to extension services through the Plantwise extension approach as a baseline for future comparison of women’s access through other extension approaches. …”
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Tackling agricultural water pollution - a 21st-century challenge by Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

“…It is the basic source of food supply and a major contributor to economic development. But there is a cost. …”
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