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Recopilación de Boletines Técnicos Agroclimáticos en Guatemala, 2021 by Alianza Bioversity International y CIAT, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanologia, Meteorologia e Hidrología, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Alimentacion, Guatemala

“…Durante este periodo se establecieron ocho nuevas MTA en los departamentos de Santa Rosa, Jutiapa, Jalapa, Izabal, Petén, Escuintla, Retalhuleu-Suchitepequez (Sur-Occidente) y Sololá, que se suman a las once mesas previamente existentes en el territorio en los departamentos de Guatemala, El Progreso, Totonicapán, Quetzaltenango, Chiquimula, Zacapa, Alta Verapáz, Baja Verapáz, Quiché, Huehuetenango y San Marcos. …”
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Soil carbon stocks in tropical pasture systems in Colombia’s Orinoquía region: supporting readiness for climate finance by Villegas, Daniel Mauricio, Bastidas, Mike, Matiz Rubio, Natalia, Ruden, Alejandro, Rao, Idupulapati M., Hyman, Glenn G., Arango, Jacobo, Baedeker, Tobias, Cando, Lee, Ramírez Diaz, Mariangela, Teillard, Felix, Costa, Ciniro

“…This rate should be reduced overtime once SOC stocks approach a new steady-state. Therefore, future monitoring is critical to validating findings and better understanding SOC changes in the region. ■ This info note reports high sequestration potential for grassland in Colombia's Orinoquía region, which can be attractive for climate finance. …”
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First report of banana bunchy top disease caused by Banana bunchy top virus in Uganda by Ocimati, Walter, Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick Kadama, Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K., Tugume, Joab K., Omondi, Bonaventure Aman Oduor, Acema, Dan, Were, Evans M., Onyilo, Francis, Ssekamate, M. Allan, Namanya, Priver, Kubiriba, Jerome, Erima, Rockefeller, Okurut, A. Wilson, Kutunga, David, Blomme, Guy

“…This infection is anticipated to have been introduced from DR Congo, mainly through infected planting materials. Once established, BBTD is very difficult to control on small-scale farms. …”
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THE 14TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL ROOT CROPS – AFRICA BRANCH (ISTRC-AB) by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…The theme is: “Exploring climate smart, nutritious and healthy root and tuber crops for African business solutions” This symposium will provide once more an opportunity for scientists and other stakeholders from throughout Africa and around the world to come together for networking, exchange information and ideas, and to initiate new collaborative studies. …”
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Analysis of water reuse potential for irrigation in Lebanon by Eid-Sabbagh, K., Roukoz, S., Nassif, Marie-Helene, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

“…These barriers include structural shortcomings in the wastewater sector combined with challenges of governance and the lack of a regulatory framework for reuse management. Once the current economic, financial and political crisis in Lebanon eases, addressing these barriers will be key to achieving more and safer water reuse in the country.…”
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Fruit Tree Based Agro-Forestry Systems: The Case of The Htee Pu Climate-Smart Village, Nyaung-U Township, Central Dry Zone, Myanmar by Manilay, Alessandro A., Thant, Phyu Sin, Myae, Chan, Barbon, Wilson John, Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…While the Cost-Benefit Analysis results were less impressive than the fruit tree project, the longer-term outcomes would improve once all the female goat breeders had reached their reproductive age. …”
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Jessour for diversified and resilient agroecological systems to ensure food security and sustainable livelihoods in arid ecosystems by Louhaichi, Mounir, Gamoun, Mouldi

“…During rainy years, cereals (barley, wheat) and legumes (peas, lentils, broad beans) are cultivated between the trees. Once these crops are harvested, the crop residues are used as fodder for grazing livestock. …”
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Optimal sample size and composition for crop classification with Sen2-Agri’s random forest classifier by Schulthess, Urs, Rodrigues, Francelino, Taymans, Matthieu, Bellemans, Nicolas, Bontemps, Sophie, Ortíz Monasterio, Jose Iván, Gerard, Bruno G., Defourny, Pierre

“…Gains became marginal once the total number of fields approximated 500 or 40 to 45 fields per crop type. …”
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Understanding farm typology for targeting agricultural development in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Ethiopia by Eshetae, Meron Awoke, Wuletawu, Abera, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mulatu, Kalkidan, Tesfaye, Abonesh

“…A generalized farm typology was constructed considering all the variables of the dataset, whereas a context-specific farm typology was developed once all the variables of the data were categorized into three groups: variables that describe i) the resource endowment, ii) technology used, and iii) food and nutrition characteristics of the farm. …”
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Geographic-scale coffee cherry counting with smartphones and deep learning by Rivera Palacio, Juan Camilo, Bunn, Christian, Rahn, Eric, Little-Savage, Daisy, Schimidt, Paul, Ryo, Masahiro

“…Then, we trained and validated YOLO (You Only Look Once) v8 for detecting cherries in the dataset in Peru. …”
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Radio messaging frequency, information framing, and consumer willingness to pay for biofortified iron beans: Evidence from revealed preference elicitation in rural Rwanda by Oparinde, Adewale, Birol, Ekin, Murekezi, Abdoul, Katsvairo, Lister, Diressie, Michael Tedla, Nkundimana, Jean d’Amour, Butare, Louis

“…However, providing the nutrition information three times versus once significantly increases consumer demand for the WIB variety. …”
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Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa by Headey, Derek D., Stifel, David, You, Liangzhi, Guo, Zhe

“…Moreover, the harmful effects of remoteness and rural living largely disappear once education, wealth, and social/infrastructural services indicators are added to the model. …”
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The Concept of the Global Hunger Index by von Grebmer, Klaus, Bernstein, Jill, Nabarro, David, Prasai, Nilam, Amin, Shazia, Yohannes, Yisehac, Sonntag, Andrea, Patterson, Fraser, Towey, Olive, Thompson, Jennifer

“…We believe there is truth to the adage that “what gets measured gets done”; thus, we intend to consistently and systematically measure global hunger to help ensure that it will be eradicated quickly and once and for all.…”
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The impact of urban growth on agricultural and rural non-farm growth in Kenya by Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P., Johnson, Timothy, Samboko, Paul Chimuka, You, Liangzhi

“…National urban growth has a larger impact on agricultural and rural non-farm growth than local urban growth. Once we account for the other control variables (roads, education, commercialization, modern varieties), the urban growth impact on agricultural growth is cut in half and for rural non-farm growth the urban growth impact disappears. …”
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Understanding the adoption of high-iron varieties in Maharashtra, India: What explains popularity? by Smale, Melinda, Diressie, Michael Tedla, Birol, Ekin

“…Low seed costs and the privatization of the national seed industry spurred diffusion of pearl millet hybrids once resistance to downy mildew had been achieved. …”
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Patterns and drivers of antibiotic use in small-scale broiler production systems in Lilongwe District, Malawi by Ngunguni, S.M., Moodley, Arshnee, Msefula, C., Mkakosya, R., Muloi, Dishon M.

“…Over half (53.1 %, n=68) of the farms reported using antibiotics at least once in the previous production cycle. Overall, 11 different types of antibiotics were used either for treatment and/or preventive purposes, with oxytetracycline (88.2 %), erythromycin (29.4 %), and enrofloxacin (26.5 %) reported as the frequently used. …”
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Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas by Headey, Derek D., Dereje, Mekdim, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…However, although these higher inputs raise gross revenue, we find no substantial impact of greater land constraints on net farm income per hectare once family labor costs are accounted for. Moreover, farm sizes are strongly positively correlated with net farm income, suggesting that land constraints are an important cause of rural poverty. …”
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Input subsidy programs in sub-Saharan Africa: A synthesis of recent evidence by Jayne, Thomas S., Rashid, Shahidur

“…Input subsidy programs have once again become a major plank of agricultural development strategies in Africa. …”
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Introducing infant and young child feeding indicators into national nutrition surveillance systems: Lessons from Vietnam by Hajeebhoy, Nemat, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tran, Do Thanh, de Onis, Mercedes

“…The last page is flexibly designed to incorporate planners’ data requests for other relevant activities (e.g. mass media interventions, food security). Once analysed, the data are presented in a report comprising provincial profiles and maps illustrating IYCF practices. …”
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Negative impact on calorie intake associated with the 2006-08 food price crisis in Latin America by Iannotti, Lora, Robles, Miguel

“…Energy intakes before and after the crisis were determined once calories were assigned to food items from the ProPAN and US Department of Agriculture food composition databases.Energy intakes were reduced by 8.0% (range, 0.95% to 15.1%) from precrisis levels across all countries. …”
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