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Drought stress characterization of post-rainy season (rabi) sorghum in India by Kholová, Jana, McLean G, Vadez, Vincent, Craufurd, Peter Q., Hammer, Graeme L.

“…The simulated trajectories of drought stress through each crop season were clustered into five different drought stress patterns. A majority of trajectories indicated terminal drought (43%) with various timings of onset during the crop cycle. …”
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Subiendo dos grados: cambio climático y cafe en Colombia. Primera parte. by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…En las elevaciones más altas del departamento del Cauca, al suroccidente del país, la producción es aún rentable, pero en la medida que se desplaza cuesta abajo se observa el efecto de lo que un aumento de dos grados en la temperatura ―proyectado para el 2050― podría tener en el futuro en la producción del café: cultivos devastados y productores que han abandonado sus cafetales y se han visto obligados a incursionar en cultivos menos rentables. Esta es la versión en español del multimedia "Two Degrees Up--PART ONE: Colombia", que se presentó en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP16), celebrada en Cancún, México, en diciembre del 2010 y también en el lanzamiento del nuevo Programa de Investigación sobre el Cambio Climático, la Agricultura y la Seguridad Alimentaria del CGIAR. …”
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Design of community based breeding programs for two indigenous goat breeds of Ethiopia by Abegaz, Solomon

“…Thus, the community based breeding programs with a few traits in the recording are considered feasible for genetic improvement of goats in the study areas and similar agro-ecological zones.…”
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Staple food crops turning into commercial crops: case studies of teff, wheat and rice in Ethiopia by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Econometric analyses show that market orientation of households is affected by a host of factors related to household demographics, household endowments of human and physical capital, access to institutional services, and village level factors. …”
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Alignment of poultry sector actors with avian influenza control in Ethiopia by Kelemework, F., Belay, B., Bett, Bernard K., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Small-scale commercial producers were selected randomly from a database that had been developed by the Ethiopian Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards and Livestock and Meat Marketing (SPS-LMM) Program. …”
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Value chain analysis of the Kenyan poultry industry: The case of Kiambu, Kilifi, Vihiga, and Nakuru Districts by Okello, Julius J., Gitonga, Zachary, Mutune, Jane, Okello, Ruth M., Afande, Martin, Rich, Karl M.

“…The study areas were selected based on their relative density of poultry populations. A value chain approach was employed that entailed the use of semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with various stakeholders including hatcheries, farmers, input sellers, processors, retailers and other intermediaries in four different value chains: commercial broilers, commercial layers/eggs, indigenous chicken, and guinea fowl/ducks.…”
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Regional experience with Brachiaria: tropical America-humid lowlands by Argel M., Pedro J., Keller-Grein, Gerhard

“…Cultivar Basilisk is the most widely used in the region, because it adapts to a wide range of soils and is easy to manage and to establish from seed. …”
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Regional experience with Brachiaria: Asia, the South Pacific, and Australia by Stür, Werner W., Hopkinson, J.M., Chen, C.P.

“…Brachiaria ruziziensis, introduced into Australia in the late 1960s, was soon replaced there by B. decumbens; however, in recent years, it has been promoted in Northeast Thailand, where a large quantity of seed is produced. The success of Brachiaria species can be attributed to their broad adaptation and to their aggressiveness and resilience, which enable them to persist even under unfavorable conditions.…”
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Distribution of water-stable aggregates and aggregating agents in oxisols of the Brazilian cerrados by Neufeldt, Henry, Ayarza, Miguel Angel, Resck, DVS, Zech, W.

“…We therefore studied loamy and clayey Oxisols under natural savanna, crop, pasture, and reforestation to (1) quantify management-induced changes in the quantity of water-stable aggregates, (2) identify the main aggregating agents, and (3) correlate aggregation with changes in pore-size distribution. Clayey soils showed a significantly higher macroaggregation than did loamy soils. …”
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Phosphorus fractions under different land-use systems in oxisols of the Brazilian cerrados by Westerhof, R, Silva, J.E. da, Ayarza, Miguel Angel, Zech, W.

“…Phosphorus was extracted sequentially, according to a modified Hedley procedure, into inorganic and organic P (NaOH-extractable Pi and Po, respectively), and recalcitrant P (P HCl and P res). …”
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Characterization of bacterial amylolytic activities during cassava solid state fermentation by Flórez, C., Chuzel, Gérard, Mayer, Jorge Edgard

“…Cassava sour starch is a naturally fermented product, which is used in the elaboration of several traditional, flour-based products, like pandeyuca and rosquillas, specially in Colombia and Brazil. …”
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Incorporating scale dependence in disease burden estimates: The case of human African trypanosomiasis in Uganda by Hackett, F., Berrang-Ford, Lea, Fèvre, Eric M., Simarro, P.P.

“…Background The WHO has established the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a metric for measuring the burden of human disease and injury globally. …”
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Destocking as an emergency drought mitigation measure: lessons learned from the 2005 'Turkana emergency livestock off-take' intervention by Watson, D.J., Binsbergen, J. van

“…The evaluation study forms the core of this report. The brief starts with a discussion on previous destocking initiatives and the current intervention: the drought of 2005 of Turkana District. …”
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Hydrochemical assessment of surface water and groundwater quality along Uyyakondan channel, South India by Brindha, Karthikeyan, Kavitha, R.

“…This study was carried out along a major irrigation water source-Uyyakondan channel in Tiruchirappalli, south India. …”
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Water budgeting in black tiger shrimp penaeus monodon culture using different water and feed management systems by Mohanty, R.K., Mishra, Atmaram, Patil, D.U.

“…Similarly, under three different feed management protocols, treatment-wise estimated TWU was 2.52, 2.44 and 2.41 ha-m 119d-1, while the computed CWUI was 7.28, 6.88 and 6.34 in T1 (Regular feeding, 4-times a day), T2 (2-weeks feeding followed by 1-week no feed) and T3 (4-weeks feeding followed by 1-week no feed), respectively. …”
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Identification of relevant non-target organisms exposed to weevil-resistant Bt sweetpotato in Uganda by Rukarwa, R., Mukasa, S., Odongo, B., Ssemakula, G.N., Ghislain, M.

“…Assessment of the impact of transgenic crops on non-target organisms (NTO) is a prerequisite to their release into the target environment for commercial use. …”
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Which climate services do farmers and pastoralists need in Malawi? by Coulibaly, Jeanne Y., Mango, Joash, Swamila, M., Tall, Arame, Kaur, Harneet, Hansen, James

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Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs) in latently infected potato stem extracts by post-enrichment qPCR. by Gutarra, L., Fuentes, S., Kreuze, Jan F.

“…A sensitive method for detection of Ralstonia solanacearum in latently infected potato stem extracts has been achieved by previous enrichment procedure followed by Real time PCR (qPCR). …”
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Integrating varietal resistance and phosphonate fungicide in management of foliar late blight in potato by Atieno, E., Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar, Narla, R.

“…Experimental units were replicated three times in a split-plot design. The results showed an effect of Phosphonates, which represent lower risks to human health and environment than conventional fungicides, on control of foliar late blight. …”
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Testicular size and sperm output in Holstein-Friesian and N'Dama bulls by Nwakalor, L.N., Orji, B.I.

“…Records collected over a period of four months from October 1978 to January 1979 from 4 Holstein-Friesian and 4 N'Dama bulls were analysed. …”
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