Resultados de búsqueda - "Focusing"

Post-harvest use of banana in Uganda and Tanzania: Product characteristics and cultivar preferences of male and female farmers por Marimo, Pricilla, Karamura, D., Tumuhimbise, Robooni, Shimwela, M.M., Bergh, Inge van den, Batte, M., Massawe, C., Okurut, A.W., Mbongo, D.B., Crichton, R.

“…Qualitative data from 23 focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted in six districts (Mbarara and Luwero in Uganda; and Bukoba, Meru, Moshi and Rungwe in Tanzania) were coded and analysed. …”
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Characterizing Nigeria’s cassava seed system and the use of planting material in three farming communities por Pircher, T., Obisesan, D., Nitturkar, H., Asumugha, G.N., Ewuziem, J., Anyaegbunam, H., Azaino, E., Akinmosin, B., Ioryina, A., Walsh, S., Almekinders, Conny J.M.

“…In an explorative study we collected qualitative data via focus group discussions and complemented them with quantitative data from a survey of 90 cassava farmers in three study sites with different agro-ecological conditions. …”
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Farmer preferred attributes in selective breeding do not necessarily result in genetic gain for growth traits: The case of coat color por Getachew, T., Abebe, A., Gizaw, Solomon, Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Haile, Aynalem

“…The on-station nucleus considered growth trait as selection criteria while CBBP focused on combination of growth and morphological characters. …”
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Effectiveness of communication channels on level of awareness and determinants of adoption of improved common bean technologies among smallholder farmers in Tanzania por Lugamara, C.B., Urassa, J.K., Nguezet, P.M.D., Masso, C.

“…In addition, as pointed out in the focus group discussions, low adoption could be because of difficulties in accessing improved bean technologies (high costs associated), unavailability of improved seeds and absence of seed dealers nearby villages. …”
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Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of rapid agricultural development por Williams, Brooke A., Grantham, Hedley S., Watson, James E.M., Álvarez, Silvia J., Simmonds, Jeremy S., Rogéliz, Carlos A., Silva, Mayesse Aparecida da, Forero-Medina, Germán, Etter, Andrés, Nogales, Jonathan, Walschburger, Tomas, Hyman, Glenn G., Beyer, Hawthorne L.

“…When 15%, 20%, 30% and 40% of the study area is allowed to be converted to agriculture, on average planning can improve species persistence and ecosystem service retention by up to 16%, 15%, 12%, and 9%, respectively, when compared to agricultural-focused solutions. Development in the region so far has had an unnecessarily large impact on environmental objectives due to a lack of effective land use planning, creating an 'opportunity debt'. …”
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Stacking tolerance to drought and resistance to a parasitic weed in tropical hybrid maize for enhancing resilience to stress combinations por Menkir, A., Crossa, J., Meseka, S., Bossey, B., Muhyideen, O., Riberio, P.F., Coulibaly, M., Yacoubou, A.B., Olaoye, G., Haruna, A.

“…Until recently, maize breeding in International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has focused on the development of either drought tolerant or S. hermonthica resistant germplasm using independent screening protocols. …”
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Research-development partnerships for scaling complex innovation: Lessons from the Farmer Business School in IFAD-supported loan-grant collaborations in Asia por Prain, Gordon, Wheatly, C., Odsey, C., Verzola, L., Bertuso, A., Roa, J., Naziri, D.

“…The Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory, action learning process focused on product and business development, and like the Farmer Field School, is a complex, multi-dimensional innovation with the potential to benefit large numbers of farming households economically, socially and institutionally. …”
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Investigation of the governance structure of the Nairobi dairy value chain and its influence on food safety por Kiambi, Stella, Onono, J.O., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Aboge, G.O., Murungi, Maurice K., Muinde, Patrick, Akoko, James M., Momanyi, Kelvin N., Rushton, Jonathan, Fèvre, Eric M., Alarcón, Pablo

“…Qualitative data were collected through focus group discussions and key informant interviews based on a dairy value chain mapping framework previously developed. …”
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Nutrient-dense orange-fleshed sweetpotato: advances in drought-tolerance breeding and understanding of management practices for sustainable next-generation cropping systems in Sub-... por Low, Jan W., Ortíz, R., Vandamme, Elke, Andrade, M.I., Temesgen, B.B., Grüneberg, W.J.

“…Thus, there has been a strong commitment to breeding for, promoting awareness of, and delivering adapted pro-vitamin A rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) in SSA during the past two decades and for enhanced iron content since 2014. This review article focuses on major breeding efforts in SSA to enhance the drought tolerance of OFSP and reviews integrated crop management practices for improved and sustained sweetpotato production in SSA farming systems. …”
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Net benefits of smallholder dairy cattle farms in Senegal can be significantly increased through the use of better dairy cattle breeds and improved management practices por Marshall, Karen, Salmon, Gareth R., Tebug, Stanly Fon, Juga, J., MacLeod, M., Poole, Elizabeth J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Missohou, A.

“…Senegal, located in West Africa, is an example of a low- to middle-income country where the government has prioritized improving livestock production self-sufficiency, with a strong focus on dairy. Among other initiatives, the use of exotic dairy cattle has been promoted, despite no evidence for the potential livelihood benefits (or otherwise) to smallholder farmers on adopting the new genetics. …”
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Synergistic effect of two nanotechnologies enhances the protective capacity of the Theileria parva sporozoite p67C antigen in cattle por Lacasta, Anna, Mody, K.T., Goeyse, I. de, Yu, C., Zhang, J., Nyagwange, James, Mwalimu, Stephen, Awino, Elias, Saya, Rosemary M., Njoroge, Thomas, Muriuki, Robert, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Poole, Elizabeth J., Zhang, B., Cavallaro, A., Mahony, T.J., Steinaa, Lucilla, Mitter, N., Nene, Vishvanath M.

“…An 80-aa polypeptide derived from the C-terminal portion of p67, a sporozoite surface Ag and target of neutralizing Abs, was the focus of the efforts on subunit vaccines against ECF and subjected to several vaccine trials with very promising results. …”
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The Nairobi pork value chain: Mapping and assessment of governance, challenges, and food safety issues por Murungi, Maurice K., Muloi, Dishon M., Muinde, Patrick, Githigia, S.M., Akoko, James M., Fèvre, Eric M., Rushton, Jonathan, Alarcón, P.

“…Qualitative data were collected in seven focus group discussions and 10 key informants' interviews on animal movements and product flows, stakeholders' interactions, perceptions on system governance and challenges, and on their potential impact on food safety management. …”
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Scaling climate services for agriculture in the Global South: an assessment of practitioners’ needs por Tran, Quoc Quan, Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Simelton, Elisabeth, Imbach, Pablo, Pham, Thao, Le Thi Tam, Clausen, Peter, Yen, Thi Nguyen, Tran, Manh Hung, Barlis, Angelica

“…Results showed that the CS sector has clearly matured in recent decades. CS providers focus mainly on translation and transfer of climate date, and rely on observational data and climate and hydrological models, from national, international and private sources. …”
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Evaluating policy-relevant research: lessons from a series of theory-based outcomes assessments por Belcher, B., Suryadarma, D., Halimanjaya, A.

“…Data collected through document reviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were analysed to test the ToCs against evidence of outcomes in the form of discourse, policy formulation and practice change. …”
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REDD+ in Theory and Practice: How Lessons From Local Projects Can Inform Jurisdictional Approaches por Wunder, Sven, Duchelle, Amy E., Sassi, Claudio de, Sills, E.O., Simonet, G., Sunderlin, W.D.

“…Drawing lessons from these project experiences may thus help improve the design of jurisdictional programs, which is the focus of REDD+ implementation in the Paris Agreement. …”
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Farmers’ perceptions of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production constraints, preferred traits and farming systems and their implications on bean breeding: a case study from So... por Mutari, Bruce, Sibiya, Julia, Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Simango, Kennedy, Gasura, Edmore

“…Methods A Participatory Rural Appraisal approach involving transect walks, focus group discussions (FGDs), and formal surveys with semi-structured questionnaires was conducted in four villages of the Lowveld region of Zimbabwe. …”
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Mapping Agroforestry and Trees Outside Forest por Rizvi, R.H., Handa, A.K., Sridhar, K.B., Kumar, A., Bhaskar, S., Chaudhari, S.K., Arunachalam, A., Thomas, N., Ashutosh, S., Sapra, R.K., Pujar, G., Singh, R.K., Londhe, S., Nayak, D., Dogra, A., Choudhary, R., Dhyani, S.K., Rizvi, J., Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Ahmad, M., Prabhu, R., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Dongre, G.

“…In recent years, there has been a shift in the focus of agroforestry research from the plot or field scale to the landscape scale, which has uncovered the multiple benefits that trees provide in agricultural landscapes. …”
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Recommended modification of porridge and mixture to improve nutrient intake in the rural area of Northern Rwanda por Tanno, Y., Sudo, N., Kano, M., Mukuralinda, Athanase, Mukantwali, C., Mujawamariya, P., Ruganzu, V., Iiyama, Miyuki

“…In Rwanda, nutritional problems are increasingly drawing attention, and the National Nutrition Policy focuses on the solutions to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition and to improve household food intake. …”
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Sustainability analysis of irrigation water management in Punjab, Pakistan por Abid, M., Hafeez, Mohsin, Watto, M. A.

“…Water management in the irrigation-dominated Indus Basin of Pakistan is under pressure to ensure equitable, long-term, stable and flexible water supplies for meeting crop water demands, growing non-agricultural water demands (domestic and industrial supplies), and minimising adverse environmental impacts of one of the largest irrigation systems in the world. In this chapter, we focus on the irrigation system in Punjab by carrying out a sustainability analysis of its current irrigation water application methods. …”
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Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs por Taylor, J., Graham, M., Louw, A., Lepheana, A., Madikizela, B., Dickens, Chris, Chapman, D. V., Warner, S.

“…We then explore enabling responses such as citizen science and co-engaged action learning as more tenable alternatives. SDG 6 has a focus on clean water and sanitation for all. The SDGs further clarify how the extent to which this goal can be realized depends, to a large extent, on stakeholder engagements and education. …”
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