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Vulnérabilité des ptéridophytes au changement climatique et implications pour leur conservation au Togo (Afrique de l’Ouest) by Abotsi, K.E., Kokou, K., Rouhan, G., Deblauwe, V.

“…Conclusions – Southern Togo Mountains will probably constitute a climatic refugium for Pteridophytes in Togo. …”
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Weed science at CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropica) and weed problems in Latin America by Doll, Jerry D.

“…Latin America is a region of contrasts including mountains and valleys, deserts and jungles, forests and prairies, prosperous and poor, modern and traditional, small farms and huge ones, malnourished and well-fed, machines and manpower, herbicides and machetes. …”
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A methodology for the transference of improved technology in the Cáqueza project by Escobar Páez, Germán

“…The traditional rural sector is characterized by low incomes the subsistence level, little education, poor housing, small form size, mountainous terrain, high population density, and traditional agriculural tecf,nology. …”
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Phaseolus angucianae (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae), a new bean species from Fila cruces of Southeastern Costa Rica by Debouck, Daniel G., Araya Villalobos, Rodolfo, Chaves-Barrantes, Néstor Felipe

“…A new wild bean found in the mountainous range "Fila Cruces" of southeastern Costa Rica is described. …”
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Prioridades de investigación y monitoreo para focalizar las inversiones en servicios hídricos: tres estudios de caso Fuquene Moyabamba y Pimampiro by Quintero, Marcela, Estrada, R.D.

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Approaching land degradation in the uplands of Laos: Looking beyond the proximate causes by Lestrelin, Guillaume, Giordano, Mark

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Adapting to melting glaciers : how Western Himalayan societies frame climate change and adaptation by Anis, Taha

“…To make matter worse, there are major gaps in our knowledge of these ranges that monopolise the world’s largest mountains. This thesis is therefore an attempt to kickstart necessary adaptation research in the area, without which even the most well-intentioned adaptation measures can quickly turn into maladaptation. …”

Roots of our people: Fruit trees and their custodians in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan by Oudenhoven, F. van, Bioversity International

“…Some of the world’s most important fruit species find their origin in the mountains of Central Asia. Over the centuries, nature and man have shaped these fruits into a diversity that has become a mainstay of everyday survival.This booklet presents some of the farmers who are contributing to the conservation of that diversity in Kyrgyzstan and the Tajik Pamirs. …”
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Determinants of chemical fertilizer use in Nepal: Insights based on price responsiveness and income effects by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad, Kaphle, Basu Dev, Shivakoti, Sabnam, Kumar, Anjani

“…Although overall chemical fertilizer use has grown steadily in Nepal in the past two decades, much of that growth has occurred in the Terai agroecological belt while use has stagnated in the Hills and the Mountains regions. Differences in chemical fertilizer use intensity between the Terai and the latter regions are typically pronounced among medium-to-large-size farmers. …”
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The pig sector in North East India: status, constraints and opportunities by Wright, Iain A., Deka, Ram Pratim, Thorpe, W.R., Lapar, Ma. Lucila

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New nexus tool supports holistic management of the Incomati Basin by Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Etichia, Mikiyas, Lautze, Jonathan F.

“…From its sources in the western mountains and plateau of Mpumalanga in South Africa to its mouth just north of Maputo’s bustling docks in Mozambique, the Incomati River basin supports lives, livelihoods, and irreplaceable ecosystems across eastern Southern Africa. …”
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Avaliaçao agronômica da Cratylia argentea na zona da Mata de Minas Gerais by Xavier, Deise Ferreira, Carvalho, Margarida Mesquita

“…The Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is characterized by mountainous topography, the presence of low fertility, highly acidic red-yellow latosols, and the predominance of naturalized pastures of molasses grass (Melinis minutiflora). …”
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The role of elected and appointed village leaders in the allocation of public resources: Evidence from a low-income region in China by Mu, Ren, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Based on primary survey data collected over two election cycles in a mountainous area in China, where an administrative village consists of several natural villages, this paper examines whether or not elected village heads and appointed Communist party secretaries favor their own natural villages when distributing public resources. …”
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Companion modelling for collective learning on land & water management in northern Thailand highlands by Barnaud, C., Promburom, T., Bousquet, Francois, Promburom, P., Trébuil, Guy

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Local calibration of remotely sensed rainfall from the TRMM satellite for different periods and spatial scales in the Indus Basin by Cheema, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud, Bastiaanssen, Wim G.M.

“…Rain gauge networks in mountainous basins such as the Indus are sparse and insufficient to plan withdrawals and water management applications. …”
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Regionalization of a conceptual rainfall runoff model based on similarity of the flow duration curve: a case study from Karkheh River Basin, Iran. [Abstract only]. by Masih, Ilyas, Uhlenbrock, Silke, Ahmad, M.D., Maskey, S.

“…The study examines the possibility of simulating time series of streamflows for ungauged catchments based on hydrological similarity, using the mountainous, semiarid Karkheh river basin (55,000 km2, Iran) as an example. …”
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Asociaciones de pasturas con árboles en la región centro del sur de Brasil by Carvalho, Margarida M.

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The effects of Quaternary glaciations in Patagonia as evidenced by chloroplast DNA phylogeography of Southern beech Nothofagus obliqua by Azpilicueta, Maria Marta, Marchelli, Paula, Gallo, Leonardo Ariel

“…The distribution of the genetic variation was partially explained by the topography of the region when the populations were divided longitudinally into Coastal Mountains, Central Valley, and Andes Mountains (RT=0.093, p=0.001). …”
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Garnering nature friendly agriculture practices: 1990 to 2020. When science simplification, participatory co production and generous sharing is valued by Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…A wide range of ecosystems are featured, coastal, drylands, mountains and lowlands in the presentations of options and approaches. …”
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MANA: improving food and nutrition security in Antioquia, Colombia by Garrett, James

“…Probably very few people in Colombia's mountainous department of Antioquia know what the letters of MANA stand for. …”
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