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Importance of Alternative Host Plants for the Annual Cycle of the Legume Pod Borer, Maruca vitrata Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Southern and Central Benin by Arodokoun, D., Tamo, Manuele, Cloutier, C., Adeoti, R.

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Transformative engagements with gender relations in agriculture and water governance by Leder, S., Shrestha, Gitta, Das, D.

“…The training consists of three activities and three discussions to reflect on gender roles in families, communities and agriculture, to discuss the gendered division of labour and changing gender relations over time and space, and to create empathy and resolve conflicts through a bargaining role play with switched genders. The approach was implemented in twelve villages across four districts in Nepal and India (Bihar, West Bengal). …”
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Outcome Harvesting: Assessment of the transformations generated by Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees In Latin America by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Camacho, Kemly, Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Martínez Barón, Deissy, Prager, Steven D.

“…It has become evident that the MTAs analyzed have encouraged a closer approach of national meteorological institutions to the needs of territories, which in turn has promoted the creation of local practice communities on the application of climate knowledge in decision-making. …”
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CSA/SuPER - Upscaling CSA with small-scale food producers organised via VSLAs: Financing for adoption, behavioural change and resilience in rural Iringa Region, Tanzania: Factsheet... by Food & Business Knowledge Platform, NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…In this CSA/SuPER research project CARE, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Sokoine University of Agriculture, and Wageningen University & Research come together to investigate a new model for upscaling the adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices (CSA) practices by small-scale farmers in developing countries. …”
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Reduced consumption and use of pods of Vigna species (Leguminosae) by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae) by Oigiangbe, O.N., Jackai, L.E.N., Ewete, F.K., Hughes, Jacqueline d'Arros, Lajide, L.

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Phenotypic diversity for morphological and productivity traits in chickpea core collection by Upadhyaya, Hari D., Bramel, P., Ortíz, R., Singh, S.

“…The Shannon-Weaver diversity index varied among traits between the three groups, and the diversity within a group depended upon the traits recorded.…”
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Factors influencing marketable supply of avocado fruit: The case of Lemo Woreda in Hadiya Zone of SNNPR, Ethiopia by Tesfaye, E.

“…Data has been collected using well-structured close ended questionnaires by using enumerators from a randomly selected sample of 115 avocado fruit farmers from Lemo District and cross checking data collected from 10 traders from Hosanna town. …”
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Enfoque de género de la Estrategia de Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima (EASAC) para la región del SICA: Acciones clave para la implementación de la línea estratégica de Gén... by Chaves, Paola, Giller, Onno

“…Este documento busca aportar a la implementación de dicha línea estratégica. …”
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Acciones claves para el enfoque de género de la Estrategia de Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima (EASAC) de la región del SICA by Chaves, Paola, Giller, Onno

“…Este documento busca aportar a la implementación de dicha línea estratégica. …”
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Selecting for useful properties of plants and fungi – Novel approaches, opportunities, and challenges by Kersey, Paul J., Collemare, Jerome, Cockel, Christopher P., Das, Dibakar, Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan, Kelly, Laura J., Lettice, Eoin, Malécot, Valery, Maxted, Nigel, Metheringham, Carey, Thormann, Imke, Leitch, Ilia J.

“…Humans use plants and fungi for a wide range of purposes and, over millennia, have improved wild species by selecting for and combining genetic variation. …”
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Cassava Annual Report 2019 by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Therefore, during 2017 and 2018, the Program created a multidisciplinary work plan across six Research and Service Areas (RSAs), strategically aligned to best respond to the demands of our main stakeholders. …”
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Enhancing access to genetic resources for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania: Seed catalogues of best perfoming varieties of finger millet and sorghum in Nyand... by Otieno, Gloria Atieno, Recha, Tobias, Fadda, Carlo, Nyamongo, Desterio, Wahome, Patrick, Okoth, Evalyn, Obuom, John, Matinde, Stephen, Kipng’eno, Isaac, Kipngetich, Clinton, Koros, Vincent, Musuya, David

“…Agricultural production and food security of resource poor farmers is increasingly under a serious threat of climate change. In East Africa specifically Kenya, there has been emergence of new pests and diseases, prolonged and increased incidences of droughts, reduced biodiversity due to unsustainable farming practices that have greatly narrowed gene pool from which farmers can depend on for their food security and resilience.. …”
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Untangling outcomes of de jure and de facto community-based management of natural resources by Agarwala, M., Ginsberg, J.R.

“…The imposition of de jure regimes usually has a negative outcome when existing de facto regimes operate at larger scales than the imposed de jure regime. …”
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Reducing risks by transforming landscapes: Cross-scale effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services by Fedele, G., Locatelli, Bruno, Djoudi, H., Colloff, Matthew J.

“…Thus, adaptation implemented at the local-scale may not address development and climate adaptation challenges at regional or national scale (e.g. as part of UN Sustainable Development Goals or actions taken under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement). A better understanding of the context and impacts of local ecosystem-based adaptation is fundamental to the scaling up of land management policies and practices designed to reduce risks and improve well-being for people at different scales.…”
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Nutrient value of wild fodder species and the implications for improving the diet of mithun (Bos frontalis) in Dulongjiang area, Yunnan Province, China by Geng, Y., Ranjitkar, S., Yan, Q., He, Z., Su, B., Gao, S., Niu, J., Bu, D.P., Xu, J.C.

“…Synthesis of relative feed value index and grey relational grade, P. molle, H. longipes and Tetrastigma obtectum were ranked the top three nutritional fodders. There was a significant difference between 21 species on their in vitro digestibility and the most highly digestible fodder species was Elatostema hookerianum. …”
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Low prevalence of cysticercosis and Trichinella infection in pigs in rural Cambodia by Söderberg, R., Lindahl, Johanna F., Henriksson, E., Kroesna, K., Ly, S., Sear, B., Unger, Fred, Tum, S., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Ström Hallenberg, G.

“…More men had heard about cysticercosis than women (p = 0.002), and men also consumed undercooked pork meat to a greater extent (p = 0.004). Although the present study is relatively small, several risk factors could be identified for porcine infection with Taenia spp. and Trichinella spp., which can be used to guide future interventions to improve both porcine and human health in these provinces.…”
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Inheritance of pod length and other yield components in two cowpea and yard-long bean crosses by Edematie, V.E., Fatokun, C., Boukar, O., Adetimirin, Victor O., Kumar, P. Lava

“…This study determined the gene effects involved in the inheritance of pod length and other yield-related traits and relationships among traits in crosses between two cowpea lines (TVu 2280 and TVu 2027) and a yard-long bean (TVu 6642) line with long pods. …”
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Impacts of Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Cat Tien National Park by Pham Thu Thuy, Nguyen, T.D., Dao, C.T.L., Hoang, L.T., Pham, L.H., Nguyen, L.T., Tran, B.K.

“…Although our research demonstrates immediate positive socio-economic impacts on livelihoods, it also highlights weaknesses in the current monitoring and evaluation system and a lack of reliable data for measuring PFES impacts in Cat Tien National Park.…”
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Evaluation of Bayesian alphabet and GBLUP based on different marker density for genomic prediction in Alpine Merino Sheep by Shaohua Zhu, Tingting Guo, Chao Yuan, Jianbin Liu, Jianye Li, Mei Han, Hongchang Zhao, Yi Wu, Weibo Sun, Xijun Wang, Tianxiang Wang, Jigang Liu, Tiambo, Christian K., Yaojing Yue, Bohui Yang

“…Herein, we studied the GP of six wool traits of sheep by two different models, including Bayesian Alphabet (BayesA, BayesB, BayesCπ, and Bayesian LASSO) and genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP). …”
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No changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen following long-term prescribed burning and livestock exclusion in the Sudan-savanna woodlands of Burkina Faso by Aynekulu, Ermias, Sileshi, Gudeta W., Rosenstock, Todd S., Noordwijk, Meinevan, Tsegaye, Diress, Koala, Jonas, Sawadogo, Louis, Milne, Eleanor, Leeuw, Jan de, Shepherd, Keith D.

“…The results at both sites indicate that 19 years of livestock and fire exclusion did not result in a significant increase in tree density compared to grazing and annual prescribed burning. …”
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