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Targeting agricultural research for development in Tanzania: an example of the use of GIS for ex ante impact assessment at IITA by Legg, C.

“…Targeting can be tailored to specific institutional requirements, for example, to emphasize improved nutrition or export-orientated cash crops.Tanzania is the fifth most populous country in Africa, with a very high percentage of its population dependent on agriculture. …”
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Factors affecting adoption of legume technologies and its impact on income of farmers: The case of Sinana and Ginir Woredas of Bale Zone by Tegegne, Y.

“…The adoption typology of the farmers can be categorized in to four in relation to their current adoption status as tech-oriented, tech-fledglings, tech-adopters, and tech-dropouts. …”
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A Practical Guide to Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in Africa by Bell, Patrick, Namoi, Nictor, Lamanna, Christine, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Thierfelder, Christian L., Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…CSA is unique, by comparison, to some other agricultural development approaches because it is outcome oriented, explicitly considers synergies and trade-offs among food and environment objectives and promotes solutions relevant to specific times and places. …”
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Agricultural diversification as an important strategy for achieving food security in Africa by Waha, Katharina, Wijk, Mark T. van, Fritz, Steffen, See, Linda, Thornton, Philip K., Wichern, Jannike, Herrero, Mario

“…More diverse farming systems can contribute to household food security, however the relationship is influenced by other factors e.g. the market‐orientation of a household, livestock ownership, non‐agricultural employment opportunities and available land resources. …”
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Experimental Virus Evolution Reveals a Role of Plant Microtubule Dynamics and TORTIFOLIA1/SPIRAL2 in RNA Trafficking by Pena, Eduardo Jose, Ferriol, Inmaculada, Sambade, Adrian, Buschmann, Henrik, Niehl, Annette, Elena, Santiago F., Rubio, Luis, Heinlein, Manfred

“…Mutations that alter the spatial orientation of the cortical microtubule (MT) array of plants are known to cause important changes in the pattern of cell wall synthesis and developmental phenotypes; however, the consequences of such alterations on other MT-network-associated functions in the cytoplasm are not known. …”
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Early defoliation in a temperate warm and semi-arid Tempranillo vineyard: vine performance and grape composition by Risco, David, Pérez, Diego, Yeves, Antonio, Castel, Juan R., Intrigliolo, Diego S.

“…Methods and Results: Four treatments were applied over three seasons to drip-irrigated vines, planted with rows orientated north-south and shoots vertically positioned. …”
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Aminopeptidase activity in seminal plasma and effect of dilution rate on rabbit reproductive performance after insemination with an extender supplemented with buserelin acetate by Viudes-De-Castro, María P., Mocé, Eva, Lavara, R., Marco-Jiménez, Francisco, Vicente, José Salvador

“…Ovulation induction in artificially inseminated rabbits by adding GnRH synthetic analogues in the seminal doses is a welfare-orientated method to induce ovulation in rabbits and could have some advantages in field practice. …”
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Búsqueda y caracterización de virus bacteriófagos frente a Xylella fastidiosa by Domingo-Calap, María L., Aure, Cristina M., Navarro-Herrero, Inmaculada, Domingo-Calap, Pilar, Marco-Noales, Ester

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La Sharka en la Comunidad Valenciana: características, control y programas de mejora by Badenes, María L., Martínez-Calvo, José, Llácer, Gerardo

“…Desde entonces, el virus se extendió por toda Europa oriental y central, en la década 1970-80 se extendió por los países de Europa occidental y por todos los países ribereños del Mediterráneo (Roy and Smith, 1994). …”
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Institutional arrangements in the promotion of sustainable livestock: an approach from the case of beef and dairy cattle production chains in Jalisco, Chiapas, and Campeche by Avalos, Ileana, Sepulveda, Claudia, Betanzos, Juan Edduardo, Jimenes-Trujillo, Jose Antonio, Pérez-Sánches, Edwin, Escobedo, Adriana

“…The findings highlight the significance of collaborative governance as a valuable alternative for addressing governance challenges in the livestock sector, particularly when hierarchical or market-oriented approaches are less effective. The diversity of identified institutional arrangements, ranging from hierarchical to polyarchic, emphasizes the need to acknowledge the specificities of the context in which they operate and adapt strategies accordingly. …”
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Embryological studies in Coffea arabica L by Vishveshwara, S., Chinnappa, C.C.

“…Studies on fruit development from flower bud formation and with special reference to bean development are presented in Coffea arabica cultivar 'Kents' and in the selections $228 3 5795 grown at the Central Coffee Research Institute, located in the southwestern coffee growing belt of India. The orientation and nature of the ovules in the pre-flowering period (megasporogenesis), which is initiated in response to 'flowering rains', have been found to be similar to previous reports of such occurrences in C. arabica. …”
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Disentangling farmers' preferences for conditional incentives to upscale biodiversity-friendly agroforestry in the Amazon by Montoya-Zumaeta, Javier G, Fiestas-Flores, Jerico, Gutiérrez, Lech J., Rojas, Eduardo, Orozco Aguilar, Luis, Ladd, Brenton

“…We firstly conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) over a sample comprised by 223 cacao farmers from the province Padre Abad in the Peruvian Amazon to gain insights into their preferences for four attributes of a proposed biodiversity-oriented agroforestry- Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme: (1) requirement for tree canopy cover in enrolled plots, (2) modalities for a biodiversity connectivity bonus, (3) farmers' participation in monitoring, and (4) the compensatory cash amount. …”
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Hanteringstest by Rising, Ida

“…The breeding goal for The Swedish Warmblood horse is a performance-oriented temperament with good riding ability, which makes the horse competitive internationally in the different contests. …”
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Human caregiving style and its effect on the dog-human relationship by Habbe, Johanna

“…The results showed that when dogs were exposed to the approach of an unfamiliar person they were more oriented towards the person with the secure caregiving style. …”

A communicative constructionist perspective on corporate social responsibility by Prochno, Sina

“…This is reflected in particular in the concept of CSR, which is based on the fundamental idea of sustainable and future-oriented business. CSR encompasses cross-cutting tasks that require employees to work together across departments to develop strategic approaches and find common solutions. …”
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Wine, climate, and institutions by Ricozzi, Matteo Bruno

“…The study highlights the importance of policies oriented to strengthening investments in intangibles and facilitating GI rule amendments, especially in sectors where cooperatives predominate due to poor intangible investments capability and other issues connected to member heterogeneity.…”
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The non-governmental organizations influence on forest sector in Poland and in Sweden by Ulbrych, Luklasz

“…Instead of disposing of one, universal way of acting applicable to all actors, ENGOs use specific actor-oriented strategies aimed at addressing given actor in direct (e.g. lobbying, dialogue with an actor) or indirect (e.g. influencing actor via international institution or certification) way. …”
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Logistics practices in Ethiopia by Debela, Fekadu Melese

“…Presence of road of high density and quality makes efficient distribution of goods easy. Customer orientation, low level bureaucracy at customs and trade facilitations expedite goods flow. …”

Hjälptyglars inverkan på hästen by Zakrisson, Linnea

“…With over 150,000 practitioners, horseback riding is one of the biggest sports in Sweden and there is a variety of specializations to choose from. One orientation is western riding which is a broad sport with several disciplines where most originate in cattle work and other ranch tasks. …”

La Escuela de Campo de Agricultores by Argüello, Harold, Soza, Freddy, López, Julio, Contreras, Karol

“…La metodología de Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) se origina en el continente asiático, implementada en esa región oriental por un grupo de profesionales de las ciencias agrícolas y sociales, como respuesta a la demanda de los productores de arroz, debido a la problemática producida por el uso y abuso de los plaguicidas sintéticos. …”
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