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Fodder and grain yield potential of little millet (Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) race robusta and identification of trait-specific germplasm for crop improvement by Vetriventhan, Mani, Jagadeesh, Kommineni, Naresh D., Singh, Kuldeep

“…Among the two races (nana and robusta) of little millet, race robusta has a robust growth habit and produces high biomass and grain yield but matures late compared to race nana. …”
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Identification of novel QTL associated with whitebacked planthopper (WBPH) and brown planthopper (BPH) resistance in the rice line RP2068 by Sahu, Nihar, Naik, Sabhavat Bhaskar, Padmavathi, G., Gangurde, Sunil S., Pandey, Manish K., Bentur, Jagadish Sanmallappa, Divya, Dhanasekar

“…Against BPH, in addition, to the already reported BPH33(t) gene, two new QTL were identified on chromosomes 1 and 4 accounted for 21% &, 17%, and 37% &, 16% PVE for DS and NS, respectively. Significantly, a single locus on chromosome 1 flanked by RM1247 and SNP1715514 was found to be associated with both the planthoppers resistance. …”
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Water financing: scaling up finance to the Water, Energy, Food and Environment (WEFE) Nexus by Ravindranath, Darshini, Steele, P.

“…This paper examines opportunities to scale up water financing within current and future financial commitments, particularly through a Water–Energy–Food–Environment (WEFE) Nexus lens. …”
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Global progress on adaptation implementation by Leiter, Timo, Njuguna, Lucy, Singh, Chandni

“…When based on extrapolated needs expressed in Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans, this figure rises to US$365 billion a year. Meanwhile, international public adaptation finance flows to developing countries were US$26 billion in 2023: down from US$28 billion the previous year. …”
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Outcome assessment of the digital agriculture ecosystem in Ethiopia by Yesigat, Habtamu, Abate, Gashaw T., Spielman, David J.

“…This paper synthesizes Ethiopia’s digital agriculture ecosystem with a focus on technology, data and analytical capacity, and policy environment. …”
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Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis of Women-Led Community Based Rice Seed Entrepreneurship Model in Bangladesh by Nuruzzaman, Afrad, Md. Safiul Islam, Habib, Muhammad Ashraful, Nayak, Swati, Haque, Md. Enamul, Hoque, Muhammad Ziaul, Nahar, Mst. Ashrafun, Mohapatra, Subhasmita, Biswas, Amlan

“…These seeds are subsequently distributed to registered dealers, who add 5.33–9.33% value and sell them at BDT 82–85 per kg. SPGs retain a portion of seeds for the following season to maintain continuity. …”
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Seed Accelerator Meet 1.0: Revisiting the gaps, opportunities, and synergies for seed system institutions and actors in India by Nayak, Swati, Hossain, Sk Mosharaf, Mohapatra, Subhasmita, Nath, Anirban, Singh, Varsa, Tyagi, Neeraj Kumar, Singh, Uma Maheswar, Singh, Vikas Kumar, Srivastava, Ashish, Yahaya, Rabe, Habib, Muhammad Ashraful

“…Overall, the workshop provided a collaborative platform and strategic direction for strengthening rice seed systems, improving varietal adoption, and advancing sustainable and resilient rice production in India.…”
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Uncovering the hidden harvest: valuation methods for woodland and forest resources by Campbell, Bruce M., Luckert, M.K.

“…The methods are presented with a number of examples of their use, most of them drawn from developing countries. …”
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Forest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations by Smith, J., Scherr, Sara J.

“…Most developing countries will require policy action to establish the enabling conditions for forest carbon projects to contribute on a large scale to local livelihoods, integrate CDM projects within national development frameworks, attract investors, establish social criteria, secure local rights and promote support services for local people. …”
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Fuelwood studies in India: myth and reality by Pandey, D.N.

“…And to determine the actual source of supply of fuelwood, investigators have to observe the flow of wood households and other consumption and distribution centres for a longer period, which would also cover the seasonal variation, instead of depending upon questionaires.…”
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Expandiendo nuestro conocimiento conceptual y metodologico sobre el rol de arboles y bosques en la subsistencia rural by Luckert, M.K., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Whether or not behavioural change occurs depends on a number of factors; these include property rights, social differentiation, time, risk perceptions, and whether values are considered in “partial” or “general” contexts. …”
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Evaluación de daños y residuos resultantes de las operaciones de aprovechamiento en seis concesiones forestales en la Región Ucayali, Amazonía Peruana by Colan, V., Catpo, J., Sabogal, C.

“…Some more traditional forest enterprises interested in maximizing their production have began activities to monitor the performance of their personnel in each harvesting operation, and identify the environmental impact these cause in the residual forest. This is not a practice that can be generalized to the concessions operating in the Ucayali Region where most small to medium enterprises do not have enough knowledge about the utility of monitoring their operations. …”
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Biofuel finance: global trends in biofuel finance in forest-rich countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and implications for governance by Gelder, J.W. van, German, L.

“…Most investors are not yet effectively addressing sustainability challenges in the biofuel sector because they lack responsible investment policies or they are insufficiently robust. Only a few banks have developed responsible investment policies specifically on biofuels. …”
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Weather-based prediction of anthracnose severity using artificial neural network models by Chakraborty, S., Ghosh, R., Ghosh, M., Fernandes, C.D., Charchar, Maria José, Kelemu, Segenet

“…In common with multiple regression models, moisture-related variables such as rain, leaf surface wetness and variables that influence moisture availability such as radiation and wind on the day of disease severity assessment or the day before assessment were the most important weather variables in all ANN models. A set of weights from the ANN models was used to calculate the overall risk of anthracnose for the various sites. …”
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Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects by Shames, Seth, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Buck, Louise E., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Masiga, Moses, Biryahwaho, B.

“…Managing power dynamics within and among farmer groups was a significant challenge to ensuring equitable decision-making and participation. …”
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Economic Analysis of Benefits and Costs: Multiple Uses Water Services Project supported by the Challenge Programme on Water and Food by Jumbe, C.B.L., Chinangwa, S.M.J.

“…The use of the latter approach is due to data limitations as a result of the research nature of the MUS Project. …”
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Analysis of milk-borne public health risks in milk markets in Kenya by Omore, Amos O., Arimi, S.M., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., McDermott, John J., Staal, Steven J.

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Quantitative microbial risk assessment: Research status and future development by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Nguyen, H.N., Nguyen, T.B.T., Haas, C.N.

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Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture: Synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha,... by Pedrick, Clare

“…The Doha conference brought together a large number of dryland government ministers with researchers, policy makers, donors, NGOs, farmers’ unions and private agribusiness enterprises to explore the challenge of increasing agricultural production in dry countries, under conditions of severe water scarcity and climate change. …”
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Towards an integrated development research approach by Zinsstag, Jakob, Pfeifer, Catherine, Ahorlu, C., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Obrist, B.

“…The aim of this session is to present different integrated development research approaches and to discuss them with the audience with a view to identifying gaps in mutual understanding, debating the validity of epistemological connections, and possibly moving towards integrated methods for development research.…”
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