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Climate-Smart Villages: A community approach to sustainable agriculture by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Climate-Smart Villages are sites where local communities work with researchers, policymakers, scientists and NGOs to develop a strategic approach to sustainable agriculture through climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies. …”
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Assessment of soil and land health at Hallu, Babati, Tanzania by Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…The selection of the LDSF site near Hallu was informed by Selian Agriculture Research Institute (SARI) scientists and chosen to compliment existing CIAT AfricaRISING LDSF sites (near Long and Matufa). …”
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Gender time: Quality money for quality work by Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…Gender has helped the research centres to come together around one topic: technical and social scientists coming together. For the second phase of the program, the CGIAR research “flagships” (focus areas) and technical teams will integrate gender in their work from the beginning. …”
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Conservation agriculture in East and Southern Africa main messages by Rosenstock, Todd S., Lamanna, Christine, Thierfelder, Christian L.

“…CSA X-Rays were designed to provide a counter point to this: to be pithy and detailed analysis of what science and scientists tell us about the ‘climate-smartness’ of CSA interventions or CSA in a specific location. …”
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The technology adoption process in subsistence agriculture: the case of cassava in southwestern Nigeria by Polson, R., Spencer, D.

“…These results have significant implications for extension personnel, research scientists and policymakers, and provide further justification for strengthening the extension capacities of the national research programs within the cassava belt of the humid forest ecologies of West and Central Africa.…”
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CCAFS Knowledge by the Numbers 2017 by Abreu, David, Epp, Marissa van, García, Ángela

“…A major goal for 2017 is to encourage CCAFS scientists to more proactively publish their datasets and databases, especially when you have published a data-paper based on this data. …”
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Effects of global warming on reindeer husbandry in the Swedish subarctic : correlations across microclimatic change, subarctic vegetation cover, and reindeer foraging preferences by Fusté Ballesteros, Jordi

“…Since the subarctic region changes faster than many other regions, ANS attracts climate change scientists from all over the world, with approximately 500 visitors per year, resulting in large numbers of data being generated. …”

TAC Quinquennial Review of ICRISAT, 1979 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…It also analyzed supporting programs, training activities cooperative programs in India and Africa, technology transfer, and the management of the center.The panel made a number of recommendations, including giving higher priority to yield improvement rather than protein content and quality; strengthening the sorghum program in West Africa; adoption of a long term objective of helping India develop its national program in chickpea research; integration of pigeon pea research into the Indian program; closer collaboration with IITA on soils research, and training for African scientists; and the formulation of a long term plan for ICRISAT's African activities.…”
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CGIAR Knowledge Day Report by CGIAR Consortium Office

“…Value for Money Proposition: How CGIAR Research Programs contribute to system-level outcomes, with a focus on mainstreaming gender On 5 November 2013, 125 CGIAR board members, directors general, scientists, donors and other stakeholders gathered to participate in a CGIAR ‘Knowledge Day’ convened by the CGIAR Fund Office, Consortium Office and CGIAR Consortium. …”
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CGIAR Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis : internally commissioned external review by Prain, Gordon, Hambly Odame, Helen, Jones, Monty

“…In addition, a simple questionnaire was used with liaison scientists to gain a better, semiquantified, insight into the state of participatory research and gender analysis in the different CGIAR Centers. …”
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CGIAR Center Directors Meeting Minutes, Presiding Chair: R. Sawyer by CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…International Testing is discussed and agreement reached on the need of all centers to work more with local quarantine scientists to explain center testing programs and the steps needed to provide healthy material. …”
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How could science-interfaces boost food system transformation? by Hainzelin, Etienne, Caron, Patrick, Place, Frank, Alpha, Arlène, Dury, Sandrine, Echeverria, Ruben G., Harding, Amanda

“…The world’s food systems must be transformed to make healthier diets more accessible for all, while increasing the sustainability and resilience of these systems, as clearly called for in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Scientists and policymakers are among the complex set of actors necessary for this transformation. …”
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Introduction and Overview [In Agricultural R&D in the developing world] by Alston, Julian M., Pardey, Philip G., Piggott, Roley R.

“…The next epoch in agricultural technology will also have fundamental biological science at its foundation. Today, scientists armed with new molecular biologies involving genomics, proteomics, recombinant DNA, and supporting informatics technologies are delving deeper into the genetics of life, with potentially profound and pervasive implications for agriculture worldwide.…”
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Spatial mapping for climate resilient agri-food systems in the coastal zone of Bangladesh by Ali, A M M Mostafa, Rahman, Md. Mostafizur, Saha, Champa Rani, Nisha, Nusrath Jahan, Laborte, Alice G., Salahuddin, Ahmad

“…Spatial data, prepared in a standard process and organizedhelps decision-makers, scientists and other stakeholders understand patterns, trends, and relationships in geographical information, leading to more informative and effective decisions. …”
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Scaling up Hacienda San Jose sustainable ranch model and securing private sector finance by Arango, Jacobo, Rubio, N.M., Costa, C. Jr., Bastidas, M., Perez, J., Rogriguez, L., Cardoso, Juan Andrés

“…Action research based on this work has been undertaken by Initiative partner scientists using the Hacienda San Jose (HSJ) ranch as a study area. …”
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Combining Crop Models and Remote Sensing for Yield Prediction: Concepts, Applications and Challenges for Heterogeneous Smallholder Environments by Hoefsloot P, Ines, Amor V.M., Dam, Jos C. van, Duveiller, Gregory, Kayitakire, Francois, Hansen, James

“…The workshop succeeded in bringing together scientists from around the world. This has enabled discussions on research and results and has greatly enhanced collaboration and exchange of knowledge, especially about data assimilation and crop forecasting.…”
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New perspectives in bean breeding in Arusha as part of the SADC/CIAT Regional Bean Program by Youngquist, W

“…Germplasm can come from anywhere in the world and CIAT will try and facilitate its movement. National program scientists should have good access to all germplasm. …”
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Closing the Relevance Gap: Lessons in Co-Developing Gender Transformative Research Approaches with Development Partners and Communities by Ferdous, N., Jost, Christine, Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…This paper documents the social learning process of co-designing and co-testing the toolbox with various development partners, CGIAR scientists, technical officers and local communities and offers key reflections and learning on the challenges and entry points to promoting a participatory and gender sensitive research agenda across upstream and downstream stakeholders.…”
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Cereal Circular RNAs (circRNAs): An Overview of the Computational Resources for Identification and Analysis by Vaschetto, Luis, Litholdo Jr., Celso Gaspar, Sendín, Lorena Noelia, Terenti Romero, Claudia Mabel, Filippone, Maria Paula

“…In the following years, it is expected that insights into the functional roles of circRNAs can be used by cereal scientists and molecular breeders with the aim to develop new strategies for crop improvement. …”
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REHYDRATE - an international HELPING working group to REtrieve historical HYDRologic dATa and Estimates by Bertola, M., Mazzoglio, P., Gelebo, A. H., Shobha, A. R., Jampani, Mahesh, Singh, S., Prieto, C., Panda, S., Zaifoglu, H., Bhowmik, A., Guesri, M., Dietrich, S., Tegegn, Z., Viglione, A., Bonaccorso, B., Claps, P., Manfreda, S., Koren, G., Moulds, S., Ganapathy, A., Pizarro, A., Lešcešen, I., Jorquera, J., Morbidelli, R., Nearing, G., Treppiedi, D., Alexander, S., Gilite, K., Dallan, E., Otieno, W., Houteta, D. K., Filipova, V., Rosselló-Geli, J., Koriche, S., Faerber, C., Vidal, J.-P., Akpoti, Komlavi, Vincent, K., Aslam, H., Musau, J., Domeneghetti, A., Rahmad, R., Moccia, B., Badji, A., Ceola, S., Jean-Emmanuel, P., Roy, T., Nandikanti, S. S. S., Zhang, Q., Chaffe, P., Mendiondo, E. M., Cudennec, C., Fan, X., Gargouri, E., Izzeddine, M., Korichi, A., Abdessamed, D., Merheb, M., Lamia, R., Slimane, B., De Smeth, K., Goody, N., Newcomer, M., Slama, F., Abdeldjabbar, B. S., Whitaker, A., Surendran, U., Chauhan, G., Montanari, A., Chen, A., Tan, X., Li, Y., Wu, S., Yang, Y., Yao, J., Payne, T.

“…The Working Group aims to connect scientists engaged in data rescue, fostering a collaborative community to exchange knowledge, experiences, and best practices in hydrological data rescue and digitization. …”
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