Resultados de búsqueda - "The Nation"

Genome-wide diversity and demographic dynamics of Cameroon goats and their divergence from east African, north African, and Asian conspecifics por Mekuriaw, Getinet, Wouobeng, Patrick, Jaures, Kouam Simo, Mrode, Raphael A., Edea, Zewdu, Bin Liu, Wenguang Zhang, Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Dessie, Tadelle, Tesfaye, Kassahun, Strandberg, Erling, Berglund, Britt, Mutai, Collins, Osama, Sarah, Tassew, Asaminew, Birungi, Josephine, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Meutchieye, Felix

“…Indigenous goats make significant contributions to Cameroon’s national and local economy, but little effort has been devoted to identifying the populations. …”
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Enhancing the use of crop genetic diversity to manage abiotic stress in agricultural production systems, 23-27 May 2005, Budapest, Hungary por Jarvis, D., Már, I., Sears, L.

“…Within the global project, 'Strengthening the Scientific Basis of In Situ Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity On-farm', and other projects concerned with the conservation and use of local crop diversity on-farm, national and international partners have developed tools to measure the amount and distribution of crop genetic diversity on-farm, to analyze the processes that maintain this diversity and to calculate values of this diversity to farmers and other stakeholders. …”
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Evaluación hidrológica y recomendaciones de manejo de agua para la Alianza Cacao en El Salvador por Valencia Gómez, Jefferson, Monserrate Rojas, Fredy Alexander, Silva, Mayesse Aparecida da, Quintero, Marcela

“…Catholic Relief Services (CRS) está liderando “El Salvador National Cacao Initiative” (referida como la Alianza Cacao), una iniciativa para promover el sector del cacao en El Salvador. …”
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Protein and amino acid composition of different quinoa (chenopodium quinoa willd) cultivars grown under field conditions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia por Lung'aho, Mercy G., Fenta, A.B., Wanderi, S., Otim, A., Mwaba, C., Nyakundi, Fridah Nyabate, Abang, Mathew M.

“…Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) remains a public health concern in most developing nations. In Africa, PEM can be attributed to monotonous diets based on cereals, roots, and tubers, with little or no protein of animal origin. …”
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Ex-ante assessment of returns on research investments to address the impact of Fusarium Wilt tropical race 4 on global banana production por Staver, Charles, Pemsl, Diemuth E., Scheerer, Lars, Vicente, Luis P., Dita Rodriguez, Miguel Angel

“…This potential loss has fueled (inter)national discussions about the best responses to protect production and small-scale growers’ livelihoods. …”
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What does gender yield gap tell us about smallholder farming in developing countries? por Nchanji, Eileen B., Collins, Odhiambo A., Katungi, Enid, Nduguru, Agness, Kabungo, Catherine, Njuguna, Esther M., Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng

“…Generally, women are distinctively “invisible” in agriculture, due to social norms and even from the national agricultural policy perspective. Their discrimination arises from uncounted and unaccounted for farm work, and their productivity is reduced by triple roles, limited access to education, having triple effects on access to technology, training and land rights. …”
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Climate Information Services Research Initiative: Final Report por Blumenstock, Ali

“…This was accomplished through desk research, field-based research, collaboration with local and national partners, and pilots of new methodologies and approaches. …”
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Gender profile of climate-smart agriculture in Ghana por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The sector employs between 60 to 80% of active populations in least developed countries (LDCs) and contributes to a large share in the national GDP (Huyer 2016). However, there is growing evidence that climate change is interacting with multiple stressors of the agricultural sectors of LDCs, challenging efforts to achieving food and nutrition security targets of the sustainable development goals [Partey et al. 2018]. …”
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Étude ethnobotanique et contribution de Canarium schweinfurthii (Engl) (Burseraceae) aux services écosystémiques des agroforêts à base de caféiers dans le Département de Bamboutos... por Tsewoue, M.R., Avana-Tientcheu, M.L., Tchoundjeu, Z.

“…La relance de la filière caféière suscite un regain d’intérêt national pour la valorisation de Canarium schweinfurthii ou « Aiélé », un arbre à usage multiple dominant des agroforêts de l’Ouest Cameroun. …”
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Enteric methane mitigation strategies for ruminant livestock systems in the Latin America and Caribbean region: A meta-analysis por Souza Congio, Guilhermo Francklin de, Bannink, André, Mayorga Mogollón, Olga Lucía, Latin America Methane Project Collaborators, Arango, Jacobo, Gaviria Uribe, Xiomara

“…Thus, the identification of effective CH4 mitigation strategies which do not compromise animal performance is urgently needed, especially in context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) defined in the Paris Agreement of the United Nations. Therefore, the objectives of the current study were to: 1) collate a database of individual sheep, beef and dairy cattle records from enteric CH4 emission studies conducted in the LAC region, and 2) perform a meta-analysis to identify feasible enteric CH4 mitigation strategies, which do not compromise animal performance. …”
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Antigenic diversity in Theileria parva populations from sympatric cattle and African buffalo analyzed using long read sequencing por Allan, F.K., Jayaraman, S., Paxton, E., Sindoya, E., Kibona, T., Fyumagwa, R., Mramba, F., Torr, S.J., Hemmink, Johanneke D., Toye, Philip G., Lembo, T., Handel, Ian G., Auty, H.K., Morrison, W. Ivan, Morrison, Liam J.

“…This study aimed to determine the genetic diversity of T. parva populations in cattle and buffalo, in an area where livestock co-exist with buffalo adjacent to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Three T. parva antigens (Tp1, Tp4, and Tp16), known to be recognized by CD8+ and CD4+ T cells in immunized cattle, were used to characterize genetic diversity of T. parva in cattle (n = 126) and buffalo samples (n = 22). …”
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Renforcement de capacités des utilisateurs pour une compréhension et utilisation effective des services météorologiques et climatiques por Ouédraogo, Issa, Diouf, Ndeye Seynabou, Gnalenba, Ablouka, Zougmoré, Robert B., Ndiaye, Ousmane

“…USAID/CINSERE (Services d’information climatiques pour améliorer la résilience et la productivité au Sénégal) est un projet de résilience qui vise à renforcer les capacités nationales pour la production, l’accès et la diffusion efficiente d’informations météorologiques et climatiques (IC) et à développer des stratégies pour une mise à l’échelle durable de l’utilisation des services d’information météorologiques et climatiques (SIC) sur toute l’étendue du territoire national. Le projet est financé par l’Agence des EtatsUnis pour le Développement International (USAID) et mis en œuvre par le CCAFS/ICRISAT en collaboration avec l’ANACIM depuis 2016. …”
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Evolution of soil fertility research and development in Ethiopia: From reconnaissance to data-mining approaches por Erkossa, Teklu, Laekemariam, Fanuel, Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D.

“…Although the integrated use resulted in increased yield and better economic benefits, it was not mainstreamed into the national agricultural extension system. The soil survey expedition that began in 2011 culminated in the mapping of the soil nutrient status using literature-based critical limits. …”
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A data-mining approach for developing site-specific fertilizer response functions across the wheat-growing environments in Ethiopia por Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Tesfaye, Kindie, Jiménez, Daniel, Dorado, Hugo, Erkossa, Teklu, Kihara, Job Maguta, Ahmed, Jemal Seid, Amede, Tilahun, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…The research output is expected to respond to the national policy demands for a sound method to identify the optimal fertilizer rate to increase economic returns of fertilizer investments and take fertilizer utilization research one step further.…”
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Canning quality of popular common bean germplasm in Eastern and Central Africa por Mukankusi, Clare, Amongi, Winnyfred, Kabwama, Andrew, Buendia Castellanos, Hector Fabio, Raatz, Bodo, Kasule, Faizo, Kayaga, Hellen, Mughi, Irene, Cichy, Karen Ann, Balasubramanian, Parthiba

“…The genotypes were planted at the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL), Kawanda-Uganda in the second rainy seasons (July-September) of 2015, 2016 and off season of 2017 (November- February). …”
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Willingness to vaccinate and willingness to pay for vaccination against peste des petits ruminants in Linguère, Senegal por Ilboudo, Guy S., Wanyoike, Francis N., Moore, V.B., Rich, Karl M., Djigo, C.A.T., Dione, Michel M.

“…Objective As part of the national strategy for controlling and eradicating peste des petits ruminants (PPR), Senegal organizes an annual mass vaccination campaign. …”
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Diffusion des conseils agricoles au cours de la campagne 2022 au Sénégal por Kebe, Amy, Seck, Babacar, Jacob, Emmanuel, Dhulipala, Ram, Faye, Aliou, Worou, Nadine, Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…Ce projet vise à mettre en œuvre la composante sous régionale d'AICCRA en Afrique de l’Ouest en mettant en place des partenariats multi-acteurs de réseaux et de centres scientifiques et éducatifs existants afin d'atteindre des résultats qui ne peuvent pas être atteints facilement, voire pas du tout, en s'engageant avec des partenaires individuels au niveau national. Plus précisément, ce projet renforcera la capacité des institutions publiques régionales (par exemple, CERAAS/ISRA, ANACIM, ANCAR, etc.) et des entreprises privées (par exemple, les fournisseurs d'intrants, les entreprises de TIC, les médias) à développer des modèles d’affaire pour les services climatiques et pour la connaissance des AIC, des approches et des outils pour soutenir une adoption efficace inter-régionale et sud sud dans diverses chaînes de valeur. …”
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A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women’s Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, An... por Scott, Samuel P., Gupta, Shivani, Menon, Purnima, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Thai, Giang, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Kumar, Neha

“…Conclusions: Limited impacts may be due to limited exposure or skills of volunteers, and a concurrent national nutrition campaign. Our findings add to a growing literature on SHG-based BCC interventions and the conditions necessary for their success.…”
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Characterization of faba bean and chickpea viruses causing yellowing and stunting symptoms in Tunisia por Mghandef, Samia, Kumari, Safaa, Najar, Asma

“…In Tunisia, faba bean (Vicia faba) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum) are considered as strategic crops because of their economic and social relevance and significant direct contribution towards the national food balance. However, production levels of these crops remain quite low which is often attributed to abiotic and biotic stresses that are prevailing in the major growing areas. …”
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Enhanced Access to Climate-Smart Agriculture and Climate Information Services by Farmers in Mali por Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Guindob, Samuel, Sidibec, Mahamoudou, Doumbia, Salif, Diarra, Ba Affoussata, Tchetan, Blaise

“…In 2022, 111,064 farmers including 49% women were supported in the use of CSA and CIS interventions by AfricaRice and the national partners (Syngenta Foundation, Niger office, Mali-Meteo and IER). …”
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