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Effect of soil conservation on productivity and food security on maize farmers in northwest Nigeria por Oladimeji, T.E.

“…This study aims to analyze the effect of soil conservation on productivity and food security of maize farmers in Northwest Nigeria. The study used a two year panel data of 792 maize farmers for 2016 and 2017 cropping seasons, collected by IITA under “Taking Maize Agronomy to Scale in Africa (TAMASA)” project implementation in Nigeria. …”
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The CCAFS Youth and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Strategy por Bullock, Renee, Huyer, Sophia, Shai, Tokelo, Nyasimi, Mary

“…Socially inclusive and intersectional approaches provide a better understanding of the ways in which local and cultural contexts structure young people’s opportunities and challenges in CSA. …”
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Germplasm rescue and rebuilding local seed systems in red zone areas por Joshi, Bal Krishna, Gauchan, Devendra, Sapkota, Shreejana, Poudyal, Kritesh, Ghimire, Krishna Hari, Dongol, Durga Man Singh

“…About 5-10% of total local crop diversity (based on the landraces) were lost due to earthquake in these districts. A total of 921 accessions of 61 crops along with 284 rare and endangered crop landraces were collected and rescued from 35 VDCs of 10 severely earthquake affected districts. …”
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Veterinary epidemiology at ILRAD and ILRI, 1987–2018 por Perry, Brian D., Bett, Bernard K., Fèvre, Eric M., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Topics include scientific impacts; economic impact assessment; developmental impacts; capacity development; partnerships; impacts on human resources capacity in veterinary epidemiology; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries; impacts on ILRI's research and strategy; the introduction of veterinary epidemiology and economics at ILRAD; field studies in Kenya; tick-borne disease dynamics in eastern and southern Africa; heartwater studies in Zimbabwe; economic impact assessments of tick-borne diseases; tick and tick-borne disease distribution modelling; modelling the infection dynamics of vector-borne diseases; economic impact of trypanosomiasis; the epidemiology of resistance to trypanocides; the development of a modelling technique for evaluating control options; sustainable trypanosomiasis control in Uganda and in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia; spatial modelling of tsetse distributions; preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa; rabies research; the economic impacts of rinderpest control; applying economic impact assessment tools to foot and mouth disease (FMD) control, the southern Africa FMD economic impact study; economic impacts of FMD in Peru, Colombia and India; economic impacts of FMD control in endemic settings in low- and middle-income countries; the global FMD research alliance (GFRA); Rift Valley fever; economic impact assessment of control options and calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs); RVF risk maps for eastern Africa; land-use change and RVF infection and disease dynamics; epidemiology of gastrointestinal parasites; priorities in animal health research for poverty reduction; the Wellcome Trust Epidemiology Initiatives; the broader economic impact contributions; the responses to highly pathogenic avian influenza; the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) experience, the role of epidemiology in ILRAD and ILRI and the impacts of ILRAD and ILRI's epidemiology; capacity development in veterinary epidemiology and impact assessment; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries and impacts on ILRI's research and strategy.…”
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Metagenomics survey unravels diversity of biogas microbiomes with potential to enhance productivity in Kenya por Muturi, S.M., Muthui, Lucy W., Njogu, P.M., Onguso, J.M., Wachira, F.N., Opiyo, S.O., Pelle, Roger

“…The obstacle to optimal utilization of biogas technology is poor understanding of biogas microbiomes diversities over a wide geographical coverage. We performed random shotgun sequencing on twelve environmental samples. …”
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Climate-Smart Mapping and Adaptation Planning (CS-MAP) of four provinces in Vietnam’s South Central Coast por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Institute of Water Resources Planning, Vietnam, Department of Crop Production

“…Using the CS-MAP approach, the Department of Crop Production, together with CCAFS SEA, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Institute of Water Resources Planning, and local stakeholders, produced a set of drought risk maps and production adaptation maps. …”
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Can cocoa agroforestry restore degraded soil structure following conversion from forest to agricultural use? por Saputra, D.D., Sari, R.R., Hairiah, K., Roshetko, J.M., Suprayogo, D., Noordwijk, M. van

“…Compared to other agricultural systems, complex agroforestry improves soil structure of degraded soil resulting from forest conversion. However, a considerable gap remains with forest soil conditions.…”
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Comparative evaluation of the immunodominant proteins of Brucella abortus for the diagnosis of cattle brucellosis por Nagalingam, M., Basheer, T.J., Balamurugan, V., Shome, R., Kumari, S.S., Reddy, G.B.M., Shome, B.R., Rahman, Habibur, Roy, P., Kingston, J.J., Gandham, R.K.

“…Conclusion: BP26 could be a potential diagnostic antigen among the immunodominant proteins of B. abortus in ruling out Y. enterocolitica O:9 infection while diagnosing brucellosis in cattle herds.…”
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Agro-ecology, resource endowment and indigenous knowledge interactions modulate soil fertility in mixed farming systems in central and western Ethiopia por Agumas, B., Balume, I., Musyoki, M.K., Benz, M., Nziguheba, G., Marohn, C., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Cardisch, G., Rasche, F.

“…Site‐specific soil fertility management requires a fundamental understanding of factors that modulate soil fertility variability in the local context. …”
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Looking for indicator bird species in the context of forest fragmentation and isolation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia por Simamora, T.I., Purbowo, S.D., Laumonier, Y.

“…Our results endorsed the general trend found across the tropics of a significant reduction in bird species richness, from the complex natural and old secondary forest structures to the simplified monoculture habitats. …”
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Regulatory Options to Improve Seed Systems for Vegetatively Propagated Crops in Developing Countries por Spielman, David J., Gatto, Marcel, Wossen, Tesfamicheal, McEwan, Margaret, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Maredia, Mywish K., Hareau, Guy

“…These findings suggest the need for alternatives that balance a permissive regulatory regime with decentralized production systems, grassroots capacity development, market surveillance, and systems that integrate internal (producer-level) quality assurance with external (regulatory) quality assurance.…”
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Assessing Impacts of Early Rice Planting on Rice Farming Households’ Welfare in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam por Ferrer, Alice Joan G, Le, Ha Thanh

“…During salinity years, adjusting rice cropping calendar, specifically early planting as a mitigation strategy can help avert production losses and can increase rice production and income of rice farmers.…”
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Long-term accumulation of macro- and secondary elements in subtropical treatment wetlands por Reddy, K.R., Hu, J., Villapando, O., Bhomia, R.K., Vardanyan, L., Osborne, T.

“…The Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) are a complex of large constructed wetlands that are an integral component of the State and Federal efforts to restore the Everglades ecosystem. …”
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Precision Nutrient Rates and Placement in Conservation Maize-Wheat System: Effects on Crop Productivity, Profitability, Nutrient-Use Efficiency, and Environmental Footprints por Jat, Raj K., Bijarniya, Deepak, Kakraliya, S., Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Kakraliya, Manish, Jat, Mangi Lal

“…Conservation agriculture (CA) is being increasingly advocated as a management strategy to overcome these issues but precision nutrient management under the CA-based maize-wheat system is rarely studied. …”
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Establecimiento de ensayos de campo de frijol en el tesac de olopa, guatemala, para evaluar la efectividad del uso de servicios climáticos participativos por Jara, Carlos-E, Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Martínez, Jesús David

“…Se seleccionó un lote perteneciente a una agricultora cabeza de hogar que ha trabajado en el proceso del TeSAC por más de dos años, empoderándose en el uso de información agroclimática y la implementación de prácticas de agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima. …”
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Test climate-smart farming practices for increasing productivity of maize-legume system under variable weather conditions por Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…This data was measured at a meteorological station located in the low altitude-low rainfall eco-zone of Babati. …”
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Monitoring tritrophic biocontrol interactions between Bacillus spp., Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, tropical race 4 and banana plants in vivo based on fluorescent transformatio... por He, Ping, Li, Shu, Xu, Shengtao, Fan, Huacai, Wang, Yongfen, Zhou, Wei, Fu, Gang, Han, Guangyu, Wang, Yunyue, Zheng, Si-Jun

“…The red fluorescent protein (RFP)-labelled strains were shown to have high stability with a plasmid-retention frequency above 98%, where bacterial growth rates and TR4 inhibition are unaffected by fluorescent plasmid insertion. …”
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Comparison of the carbon footprint of the dietary patterns of the inhabitants of the city of Cali and the "EAT-Lancet diet por Hurtado Bermudez, Leidy Johanna, Montoya Diaz, Juan Camilo

“…The objective of this study is to compare, in nutritional and environmental terms, the dietary patterns of the inhabitants of Cali, Colombia, with a world reference diet based on environmental sustainability EAT-Lancet. …”
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Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia por Minh, Thai Thi, Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Mutenje, Munyaradzi, Pele, Winnie, Ngowenani, Nohayi, Muzungaire, Lizzy

“…The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. …”
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Mecanismos de retribución por servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: estado de avance, cuellos de botella y aprendizajes de las iniciativas en el Perú por Tristán Febres, María Claudia, Saldaña Dueñas, Susana, Francesconi, Wendy, Quintero, Marcela

“…El presente estudio da a conocer un reporte sobre las iniciativas de los Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos hidrológicos (MERESE hidrológicos) al 2020 en el Perú. …”
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