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Participatory research for development to upgrade smallholder pig value chains in Uganda por Ouma, Emily A., Roesel, Kristina, Dione, Michel M., Carter, N., Pezo, Danilo A., Ejobi, F., Grace, Delia

“…The value chain is highly fragmented and underutilised. Interventions will focus on capacity development of the various value chain actors in conjunction with piloting of technical and institutional related interventions on select aspects that mainly target women, who bear 60% of the workload involved in piggery, and the youth who are involved in the post-production nodes of the value chain.…”
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Linking livestock and natural resource management por International Livestock Research Institute

“…Given the importance of mobility and the poor suitability of most land for cropping, measures to offset the increasing densities and land privatisation should focus on improving the capacity of communities to co-operate and mitigate the impact of heterogeneity on that capacity, and on improving market access to improve co-operation and increase incentives to sell stock in good as well as poor rainfall years. …”
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Lessons learned from the Boran Cattle Improvement Programme at Adami Tulu and Abernossa Cattle Multiplication and Improvement Centre in Ethiopia por Tegegne, Azage

“…Subsequently, the Borana selection and improvement programme was re-located at the Didi Tura ranch in Borana country and the center was restructured to focus on crossbred heifer production only. In its 35 years of existence, the center's activities have gone through a number of expansion and contraction, and accordingly genetic progress and retrogress in the breed improvement efforts. …”
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Comparative polygenic analysis of maximal ethanol accumulation capacity and tolerance to high ethanol levels of cell proliferation in yeast por Pais, TM, Foulquié Moreno, Maria R., Hubmann, Georg, Duitama, Jorge, Swinnen, S, Goovaerts, A, Yang, Y., Dumortier, F, Thevelein, JM

“…Up to now, all research has focused on tolerance of yeast cell proliferation to high ethanol levels. …”
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Adaptive livelihood strategies employed by farmers to close the food gap in semi-arid south eastern Zimbabwe por Murungweni, C., Wijk, Mark T. van, Giller, Kenneth E., Andersson, Jens A., Smaling, E.M.A.

“…Informal interviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to determine how households can be disaggregated according to their livelihood patterns and a questionnaire was applied to learn how each group responded to drought. …”
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Assessment of innovations for sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers in response to changing climates in semi-arid Zimbabwe through farmer perceptions por Musiyiwa K, Filho WL, Nyamangara, Justice, Harris D

“…Interventions/strategies introduced by institutions and farmer organizations and possible gaps in innovations were identified through focus group discussions and key informant interviews. …”
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The importance of health co-benefits in macroeconomic assessments of UK Greenhouse Gas emission reduction strategies por Tarp Jensen H, Keogh-Brown MR, Smith, R.D., Chalabi Z, Dangour, Alan D., Davies, M., Edwards, P., Garnett, Tara, Givoni M, Griffiths U, Hamilton I, Jarrett J, Roberts I, Wilkinson P, Woodend, John, Haines A

“…In contrast to previous assessment studies, our main focus is on health co-benefits additional to those from reduced local air pollution. …”
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Crop simulation analysis of phenological adaptation of chickpea to different latitudes of India por Vadez, Vincent, Soltani A, Sinclair, Thomas R.

“…These results indicate that the breeding for optimum EMR1 of chickpea in India needs to be focused on expected rainfall for a region, and that an optimum EMR1 of about 43 biological days would likely fit most of the environments.…”
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CPWF Medium Term Plan (2007-2009) por CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…At the CSC meeting held in Cairo (May 2 – 3), the CPWF Steering Committee confirmed six research priorities to focus the second call. Each project will have a funding ceiling of US$ 0.5 million and will be expected to deliver results in two years, to coincide with the completion of the CPWF’s first phase.…”
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Characterisation of the wildlife reservoir community for human and animal trypanosomiasis in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia por Anderson, N.E., Mubanga, J., Fèvre, Eric M., Picozzi, K., Eisler, M.C., Thomas, R.

“…The Luangwa Valley in Zambia supports high densities of tsetse flies (Glossina species) and is recognised as an historical sleeping sickness focus. The objective of this study was to characterise the nature of the reservoir community for trypanosomiasis in the absence of influence from domesticated hosts. …”
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Participation of feed industry personnel and pig farms to reduce risk of disease spread between farms por Bottoms, K., Dewey, Catherine E., Richardson, K., Poljak, Z., Carter, N.

“…Objective: to identify management factors to reduce the risk of disease spread among swine farms through feed trucks. Methods: Focus groups and key informant interviews were conducted with managers, dispatchers and drivers of feed companies and swine producers. …”
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Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species por Thomas, E., Jalonen, R., Loo, J., Boshier, D., Gallo, L., Cavers, S., Bordacs, S., Smith, Pete, Bozzano, M.

“…In this article, we review current practices in ecosystem restoration using native tree species, with a particular focus on genetic considerations. Our discussion is organised across three themes: (i) species selection and the sourcing of forest reproductive material; (ii) increasing resilience by fostering natural selection, ecological connectivity and species associations; and (iii) measuring the success of restoration activities. …”
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Determining the pan-African sweetpotato virome: Understanding virus diversity, distribution and evolution and their impacts on sweetpotato production in Africa. por Gutiérrez, D., Tachin, M., Schulz, S., Miano, D., Ndunguru, J., Mukassa, S., Ngadze, E., Chiona, M., Kowalski, B., Fei, Z., Kreuze, Jan F.

“…However, there is a widespread lack of basic information and understanding of virus populations throughout Africa, even though such basic information is required to manage the spread and impact of these viral diseases. This project will focus on evaluating a novel approach, deep sequencing and assembly of small RNAs from field-grown sweetpotato samples collected throughout Africa, to systematically and efficiently identify virus genome. …”
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Modeling and participatory farmer-led approaches to food security in a changing world: A case study from Malawi por Snapp, Sieglinde S., Kerr, R.B., Smith, A., Ollenburger, M.H., Mhango, W., Shumba, L., Gondwe, T.N.P., Kanyama-Phiri, G.Y.

“…Variable weather and changing climate requires a focus on supporting farmer capacity to adapt and innovate. …”
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Feed storage practices and aflatoxin contamination of dairy feeds in the Greater Addis Ababa milk shed, Ethiopia por Gizachew, D., Szonyi, Barbara, Tegegne, Azage, Hanson, Jean, Grace, Delia

“…These results suggest that risk mitigation should focus on noug cake to effectively reduce aflatoxin contamination in the peri-urban dairy value chains in Ethiopia.…”
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Parasite co-infections and their impact on survival of indigenous cattle por Thumbi, Samuel M., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Poole, Elizabeth J., Kiara, Henry K., Toye, Philip G., Mbole-Kariuki, Mary N., Conradie, I., Jennings, A., Handel, Ian G., Coetzer, Jacobus A.W., Steyl, J.C.A., Hanotte, Olivier H., Woolhouse, Mark E.J.

“…These findings have important implications for disease control strategies, suggesting a need to consider co-infections in epidemiological studies as opposed to single-pathogen focus, and benefits of an integrated approach to helminths and East Coast fever disease control.…”
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Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture to water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods, and development of policy options [Abstract only] por Hoa, E., Chiramba, T., Williams, Timothy O.

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Problems and prospects of farmers training centers: the case of Ada’a Woreda, East Shewa, Oromia Region por Teshome, F.M.

“…The method of data collection employed includes interview schedule, self-administered questionnaire, focus group discussions and personal observation. …”
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Determinants of adoption of improved haricot bean production package in Alaba special Woreda, Southern Ethiopia por Negash, R.

“…Structured interview schedule was developed, pre-tested and used for collecting the essential quantitative data for the study from the sampled households. Focus group discussion was used to generate qualitative data. …”
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Assessing and understanding food safety risk practices in Nairobi pork food system: A value chain approach por Murungi, M.K., Muinde, P., Akoko, James M., Rushton, Jonathan, Fèvre, Eric M., Domínguez Salas, Paula, Muloi, Dishon M., Häsler, Barbara, Alarcón, Pablo

“…A cross-sectional study of the Nairobi pork system collected data through focus group discussions and individual interviews with farmers, traders, abattoir owners, large companies’ managers, retailers, government officers and consumers. …”
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