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Evaluating the Integration of Agroecological Principles into Kenya's Legal and Policy Framework by Awiti, Alex O., Ndiwa, Aurillia M.

“…This paper evaluates the integration of three high - level categories of the 13 principles of agroecology — resource efficiency, resilience, and social equity and responsibility — into Kenya's Constitution and 14 sectoral strategies, policies, and laws. …”
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Agricultural public spending in Africa is low and inefficient by Benin, Samuel

“…Between 1980 and 2012, total agricultural spending in Africa increased at an average rate of 0.8 percent a year and constituted 4 percent of total spending (far below the 10 percent spending target) and 4.7 percent of agricultural valued added. …”
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Existing data to measure African trade by Mitaritonna, Cristina, Traoré, Fousseini

“…Informal trade flows pose an ongoing problem when measuring intraregional trade, although actual border-monitoring initiatives ongoing in selected countries constitute an interesting option for their quantification. …”
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A meta-analysis of rates of return to agricultural R & D: ex pede Herculem? by Alston, Julian M., Wyatt, T. J., Pardey, Philip G., Marra, Michele C., Chan-Kang, Connie

“…IFPRI has long argued that spending on agricultural research constitutes a sound investment in poverty reduction and agricultural and economic growth, through improvements in productivity. …”
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Climate variability and maize yield in South Africa by Akpalu, Wisdom, Hassan, Rashid M., Ringler, Claudia

“…Maize is the primary food staple in southern Africa, and 50 percent of the total maize output in the area is produced in South Africa, where maize constitutes approximately 70 percent of grain production and covers 60 percent of the country's cropping area. …”
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Pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies: Synthesis of country background papers by Tiongco, Marites

“…The endemic nature of the disease in these countries constitutes a permanent source of potential contamination for humans and could also be a source of contamination for other countries through legal and illegal movements of animals.…”
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Why is the Doha development agenda failing? And what can be done?: A computable general equilibrium-game theoretical approach by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…Formation of coalition, such as the G20, constitutes an option for its members to block outcomes imposed by rich members. …”
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Factors influencing hybrid rice adoption: a Bangladesh case by Mottaleb, Khondoker A., Mohanty, Samarendu, Nelson, Andrew

“…As rice constitutes the major share in cereal consumption in South and East Asian countries that ranges from as low as 40 per cent in India to 97 per cent in Myanmar, to ensure food security, governments in these countries are encouraging farmers to adopt hybrid rice. …”
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International migration and environmental degradation: the case of Mozambican refugees and forest resources in Malawi. by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Hassan, Rashid M.

“…Land clearing for refugee camp sites, construction material, fuelwood and agricultural crop production constitute a major threat to forest resources in the refugee populated areas. …”
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Sidama Coffee Agronomy Program: Impact report by Abate, Gashaw T., Regassa, Mekdim D., Bernard, Tanguy, Minten, Bart

“…Coffee is Ethiopia’s most important export crop, and it constitutes an important source of livelihood for an estimated 15 million people across the value chain, most of whom are poor smallholder farmers. …”
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Exploring partnerships between local communities and timber companies: an experiment using the role-playing games approach by Purnomo, H., Guizol, P., Mendoza, G.A.

“…This formal forum was constituted after a facilitated ex-postinteraction between representatives from the timber company and local communities. …”
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Agent-based spatial models applied to agriculture: a simulation tool for technology diffusion, resource use changes and policy analysis by Berger, T.

“…Simulation results show that agent‐based spatial modelling constitutes a powerful approach to better understanding processes of innovation and resource use change.…”
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Molecular characterisation of a cognate 70 kDa heat shock protein of the protozoan parasite Theileria parva by Daubenberger, C.A., Heussler, V., Gobright, E.I., Wijngaard, P.L.J., Clevers, H.C., Wells, C., Tsuji, N., Musoke, A.J., McKeever, Declan J.

“…Antigens expressed by TpM that constitute targets for CTL have yet to be identified. …”
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Agriculture and climate change mitigation in the developing world by Scholes, Robert J., Palm, Cheryl A., Hickman, JE

“…Agricultural activities in the developing world directly contribute about 4.23 GtCO2eq/y to the current anthropogenic forcing of the global climate, and indirectly a further approximately 3.93GtCO2eq/y through forest clearing and degradation. Together they constitute a quarter of the total global climate forcing from all sources. …”
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Potential impact of climate change on termite distribution in Africa by Shiday BMA, Nkunika POY, Sileshi, Gudeta W., French JRJ, Nyeko P, Jain S

“…Termites (Order: Isoptera) constitute an integral component of various ecosystems in Africa. …”
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Development needs of pastoral and agropastoral production systems in Ethiopia: Lessons learnt from ILRI's research in some pastoral areas of Ethiopia by Berhe, Kahsay, Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Ehui, Simeon K., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…Livestock production constitutes the most important component of the system and rangeland is the major source of feed. …”
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Productivity and reproductive performance of the free range local domestic fowl ecotypes in Tanzania by Msoffe, P.L.M., Mtambo, M.M.A., Minga, U.M., Olsen, J.E., Juul-Madsen, H.R., Gwakisa, P.S., Mutayoba, S.K., Katule, A.M.

“…It was concluded that genetic and phenotypic diversity exists in the local domestic fowl ecotypes of Tanzania. The diversity constitutes a valuable resource for use in breeding programmes for improvement of the health and productivity of the local domestic fowls and in designing proper conservation strategies. …”
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Arranged-demand irrigation scheduling with nonidentical discharges by Anwar, Arif A., Haq, Z.U.

“…Supplying water sequentially to farmers according to their requested times constitutes an irrigation scheduling problem analogous to the classical earliness/tardiness single machine scheduling problems in Operational Research (OR). …”
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Interacciones entre insectos y malezas en mono y policultivos de maiz y frijol by Altieri, Miguel A., Doll, J., Schoonhoven, Aart van

“…Tropical agroecosystems constitute diversified systems with crops arranged in polycultural patterns. …”
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Effect of processing on the proximate, mineral, and pasting properties of whole flour made from some new plantain and banana hybrids pulp and peel mixture by Adeniji, T.A., Tenkouano, A.

“…Whole plantain and banana flour may constitute an important feeding stuff for livestock, which may eventually provide protein in human diet from consumption of meat and other products from livestock,…”
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