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CGIAR 2030 Global Strategy for Resilient Drylands by International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

“…This process brought together expertise across CGIAR Centers, our partners, countries, and disciplines to build consensus on the opportunities and challenges to realizing our vision. …”
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Eliciting Market Demand for Advanced Breeding Clones of Roots, Tuber and Banana Crops in Uganda, Nigeria and Côte D’Ivoire by Mulwa, C.K., Okoye, B., Kanon, A., Okumu, B., Nnabue, I., Koffi, C., Nakitto, M., Bello, A., Iragaba, P., Mobio, A., Okello, J.J., Nwanze, O., Bwire, G., Ssali, R.T., Madu, T., Olivier Atsin, G., Adiko, E., Sylvie Diby, N., Kouassi, A., Ejechi, M., Okoye, C., Onyemauwa, N., Ofoeze, M., Ukeje, B., Teeken, B.

“…The studies employ an experimental auction approach to elicit consumer demand for advanced breeding clones of sweetpotato, cassava and plantain across three countries (Uganda, Nigeria, and Cote D’Ivoire), based on various quality traits The study finds that consumer demand for improved sweetpotato clones in Uganda is significantly influenced by sensory attributes such as taste and appearance, and that urban consumers have higher WTP for clones that are nutritionally enhanced and have better taste, compared to their rural counterparts. …”
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Maize yield suitability mapping in two major Asian Mega-Deltas using AgERA and CMIP6 climate projections in crop modeling by Upreti, Deepak C., Villano, Lorena, Raviz, Jeny, Laborte, Alice, Radanielson, Ando M., Nelson, Katherine M.

“…Province-level yield estimates were validated against statistics reported by the governments of the respective countries. Model performance varied across regions, with R2 values ranging from 0.07 to 0.94, MAE from 0.67 t·ha−1 (14.2%) to 1.56 t·ha−1 (20.7%) and RMSE from 0.62 t·ha−1 (14.6%) to 1.74 t·ha−1 (23.1%) in the Ganges Delta, and R2 values from 0.23 to 0.85, MAE from 0.37 t·ha−1 (12.8%) to 2.7 t·ha−1 (27.2%) and RMSE from 0.45 t·ha−1 (15.9%) to 1.76 t·ha−1 (30.9%) in the Mekong Delta. …”
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Factors associated with knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mixed crop-livestock farmers on Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and other zoonoses in Burkina Faso by Ilboudo, Abdoul K., Dione, Michel M., Nijhof, A.M., Groschup, M.H., Traoré, O., Ilboudo, Guy S., Tarnagda, Z., Savadogo, M., Bett, Bernard K.

“…Background: The burden of zoonotic diseases remains high in low and middle-income countries. Among the prevalent zoonoses, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) can pose economic and health threats, particularly among at-risk professionals. …”
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Village chickens can strengthen community resilience in the face of insecurity and climate change in Burkina Faso by Dione, Michel M., Ilboudo, Guy S., Ouedraogo, Brice, Ima, S.A., Kagambèga, A., Ganser, C., Boz, Z., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Alders, R.

“…In countries like Burkina Faso where climate change and political insecurity are causing displacement of communities to safer areas, village chickens are commonly raised by rural households. …”
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The characteristics of community seed schemes for grains and legumes: Insights from northern Nigeria by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Ragasa, Catherine, Bamiwuye, Temilolu, Andam, Kwaw S., Spielman, David J., Omoigui, Lucky

“…CONTEXT Despite the significant roles that intermediary seed systems play in the supply of quality seed in developing countries, including Africa South of the Sahara, the knowledge gap remains generally substantial regarding the general characteristics and seed quality assurance performance of intermediary seed systems like community seed schemes (CSS), which still predominantly operate outside the formal seed systems. …”
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Investigation of the global transportation of Culicoides biting midges, vectors of livestock and equid arboviruses, from flower-packing plants in Kenya by Stokes, J.E., Labuschagne, K., Fèvre, Eric M., Baylis, M.

“…In recent decades there has been a huge increase in the export of cut flowers from countries in Africa and elsewhere to European flower markets, with the vast majority first entering the Netherlands for local use or for export. …”
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CY-Bench: a comprehensive benchmark dataset for sub-national crop yield forecasting (Preprint) by Paudel, D., Kallenberg, M., Ofori-Ampofo, S., Baja, H., van Bree, R., Potze, A., Poudel, P., Saleh, A., Anderson, W., von Bloh, M., Castellano, A., Ennaji, O., Hamed, R., Laudien, R., Lee, D., Luna, I., Meroni, M., Mutuku, J.M., Mkuhlani, S., Richetti, J., Ruane, A.C., Sahajpal, R., Shai, G., Sitokonstantinou, V., de Souza Noia Junior, R., Srivastava, A., Strong, R., Sweet, L., Vojnovic, P., Athanasiadis, I.N.

“…With CY-Bench, we aim to: (i) establish a standardized framework for developing and evaluating data-driven models across diverse farming systems in more than 25 countries across six continents; (ii) enable robust and reproducible model comparisons that address real-world operational challenges; (iii) provide an openly accessible dataset to the earth system science and machine learning communities, facilitating research on time series forecasting, domain adaptation, and online learning. …”
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Regional policy dialogue to review implementation of the East African Community Regional Seed Potato Strategy and Action Plan 2022–2032 by Barungi, Julian, Okonya, Joshua, Recha, John W.M., Radeny, Maren A.O.

“…The regional policy dialogue brought together 76 participants (55 male and 21 female) from all eight EAC Partner States and other countries in West Africa, Europe, and the Americas. …”
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South America’s pasture intensification can increase beef production, reduce emissions by 30% and mitigate warming from methane by 2050 by Costa-Junior, Ciniro, Tedeschi, Luis Orlindo, Gonzalez-Quintero, Ricardo, Arango, Jacobo, Burkart, Stefan, Grosjean, Godefroy, Dittmer, Kyle Michael, Wollenberg, Eva K., Becoña, Gonzalo, Micol, Laurent, Palma, Eduardo Bustos, Lagos, Alejandro Ramsay, Loaiza, Sandra, Insaurralde, Marcelo, Guariniello, Luciano, Faverin, Claudia, Recavarren, Paulo Maria, Tieri, Maria Paz, Batista, Luiz Fernando Dias, Baethgen, Walter, Idupulapati, Rao

“…This study explored the GHG mitigation potential in South America by evaluating nearly 30 beef cattle production systems across five key beef-producing countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay). …”
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The dawn of a legume revolution in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and implications by Ngoma, Hambulo, Chiduwa, Mazvita S., Subakanya Mitelo, Mulenga, Brian P., Setimela, Peter S., Schulthess, Urs, Chikowo, Regis, Mhlanga, Blessing, Silva, João Vasco, Chamberlin, Jordan, Stewart, Zachary, Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri, Nagarajan, Latha, Odhong, Jonathan A., Marenya, Paswel, Snapp, Sieglinde

“…The total area under maize and legume cultivation increased between 2012 and 2023 in both countries. However, the share of cultivated land under maize declined, while the share under legumes increased over the same period. …”
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Pork safety across Vietnam's traditional markets: microbial contamination and vendor knowledge, attitudes, and practices by Trang Thi Huyen Le, Hoffmann, Vivian, Ambler, Kate, Murphy, Mike, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Lindahl, Johanna F., Rajala, E., Lam, Steven, Boqvist, S., Unger, Fred, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Foodborne diseases are a major cause of illness in low- and middle-income countries, and most are due to fresh foods sold in traditional markets. …”
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Realized genetic gain for yield and yield attributes in groundnut breeding at ICRISAT from an ERA trial by Behera, Partha Pratim, Deshmukh, Dnyaneshwar, Vemula, Anil Kumar, Bangaru, Kiranmayee, Bagudam, Rachana, Mathew, Anurag, Purohit, Ashutosh, Vishnumolakala, Aparna, Wankhade, Ankush P., Kounain, Safinaaz, Guguloth, Nehru, Variath, Murali T., Kurva, Mukhthambica, Potupureddi, Gopi, Muragesan, Surya, Raman, Anitha, Pasupuleti, Janila

“…The ICRISAT groundnut breeding program, established in 1976, has significantly contributed to varietal development, resulting in the release of >240 varieties in 39 countries. Estimating realized genetic gain (RGG) in a breeding program helps to measure the progress made for agronomic traits and identify gaps to guide the breeding strategy. …”
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Assessment of effect of management practices and agro-ecology on water productivity of major crops in Meja Watershed, Jeldu District, Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Asfaw, A.

“…Low water use efficiency is a challenge to crop production in Sub-Sahara African countries. Water is getting continuously scarce due to increased demand and shrinking availability induced mainly by climate change. …”
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Prevalence and molecular characterisation of Eimeria species in Ethiopian village chickens by Luu, L., Bettridge, Judy M., Christley, Robert M., Melese, K., Blake, D.J.H., Dessie, Tadelle, Wigley, Paul, Desta, T.T., Hanotte, Olivier H., Kaiser, P., Gutu, Z., Collins, M., Lynch, Stacey E.

“…However, prevalence of Eimeria species is not uniform across production systems. In developing countries such as Ethiopia, a high proportion of chicken production occurs on rural smallholdings (i.e. …”
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Simulating current and future water resources development in the Blue Nile River Basin. by McCartney, Matthew P., Alemayehu, T., Easton, Z.M., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…The irrigation demands for the long-term scenario are considerably greater than the mean annual flow of the Nile basin, assuming the existing management practice and irrigation water requirement estimation of the countries. The river water would therefore will not satisfy irrigation water demands in the long term unless the irrigation efficiency is improved, water saving measures are implemented and other sources of water and economic options are explored.…”
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Agricultural innovation platform as a tool for development oriented research: Lessons and challenges in the formation and operationalization by Tenywa, M.M., Rao, K.P.C., Tukahirwa, J.M.B., Buruchara, Robin Arani, Adekunle, A.A., Mugabe, J., Wanjiku, C., Mutabazi, S., Fungo, B., Kashaija, N.I.M., Pali, Pamela N., Mapatano, S., Ngaboyisonga, C.M., Farrow, Andrew, Njuki, Jemimah, Mulema, Annet A.

“…Agricultural Innovation Platforms are being implemented in Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site (LKPLS) of the Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme, covering three countries (Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo) with widely differing social political environments to address agricultural development challenges. …”
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Small-scale irrigation: is this the future? by Facon, T., Mukherji, Aditi

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Mangroves of the Mekong: annual mapping of the status and changes of the world's mangroves. [Abstract only]. by Rebelo, Lisa-Maria

“…In addition changes in mangroves occur fast and updated information about their change status is required; for countries participating in REDD+, UNFCCC requires reporting at least on a bi-annual basis. …”
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Rain water harvesting for enhancing crop water productivity: an assessment for rainfed areas of India. [Abstract only]. by Sharma, Bharat R., Rao, K.V., Vittal, K.P.R.

“…India ranks first among the rainfed agricultural countries of the world in terms of both extent (86 M ha) and value of produce. …”
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