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2020 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions by Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob, Rice, Brendan, Minot, Nicholas

“…This reflected worsening acute food insecurity in key conflict-driven crises, notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan and the growing severity of drought and economic shocks as drivers in countries such as Haiti, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. Around 183 million people in 47 countries were classified in Stressed (IPC/CH Phase 2) conditions, at risk of slipping into Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) if confronted by an additional shock or stressor. …”
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Evaluation and large-scale dissemination of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in SubSaharan Africa by Kapinga, R., Zhang, D., Andrade, M.I., Lemaga, B., Mwanga, R.O.M., Tumwegamire, S., Laurie, S., Ndolo, P.J.

“…Distribution of more than twenty promising clones has been done to Madagascar, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Zanzibar, Malawi, D.R. Congo and Sudan. …”
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Co-designing a Digital Twin for water resource management in the Limpopo River Basin: outcomes from the Ideation and Stakeholder Workshop by Garcia Andarcia, Mariangel, Silva, Paulo, Dickens, Chris

“…The workshop engaged 18 stakeholders and water resource specialists representing the Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) and four countries – Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa – together with the IWMI project team and GWPSA, to ensure the design reflected user needs and data requirements…”
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Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework by Adato, Michelle, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…It provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: (1) modern rice varieties in Bangladesh; (2) polyculture fishponds and vegetable gardens in Bangladesh; (3) soil fertility management practices in Kenya; (4) hybrid maize in Zimbabwe; and (5) creolized maize varieties in Mexico. …”
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Southern Africa: economic structure, trade, and regional integration by Mukherjee, Natasha, Robinson, Sherman

“…To date, the cross-entropy method has been applied to the Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) for the MERRISA countries, including the SAM for Zimbabwe.…”
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Food System Actors engaged in the cocreation of agroecological innovations: Results of three years of engagement in eight countries by Staiger, Simone, Orjuela, Guillermo

“…The CGIAR initiative on Agroecology has been actively engaging with food system actors (FSA) in eight countries (Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Peru, Senegal, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe) to codesign, test, and adapt agroecological innovations, both technological and institutional, from food production to consumption. …”
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Gendered analysis of rice product profiles, Côte d’Ivoire by Ndour, Maimouna, Ly, Cheikh Oumar, Kokola Assienan, Juliette, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Yadav, Shailesh

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Market segmentation for peppers and tomatoes in Eastern and Western Africa by Ambali, Mwasilwa, Zohoungbogbo, Herbaud, Ayenan, Mathieu, Kaki, Rodrigue, Eybishitz, Assaf, Barchenger, Derek, Schreinemachers, Pepijn

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Insight of the market segmentation in tailoring potato varieties for Kenyan market: A snippet of stakeholder’s recommendation of major segments by Otieno, A.S., Nyongesa, W.M., Kelele, F.J., Namusonge, M., Mendes, T., Milic, D.

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Geographical context in plant breeding priorities – groundnuts in West and Southern Africa by Mbugua-Gitonga, Agnes, Rutsaert, Pieter, Kitoto, Victor, Khaemba, Colleta

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Developing tools to assess quality traits in beans for sustainable and nutritional foods in LAC by Gallego, Sonia, Orozco, Juan Camilo, Patiño, Gelver, Taleon, Victor, Andrade, Robert

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Consumer preferences for rice in Liberia: Some preliminary results by Twine, E., Arouna, A., Aboudou, R., Ndindeng, S.

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One Health bootcamp by Becker, J., Hassim, A., Quan, M., Fagir, D.M., Conan, A., Nkoana, T., Mutua, Florence K., Richards, Shauna, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…The Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (COHESA) project looks to embed the One Health concept across society in 12 participating countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Building capacity in One Health research is one part of this work, including a research bootcamp for early and mid-career researchers. …”
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Costing of the breeding operations for the national maize programs in Eastern and Southern Africa by Das, Biswanath, Mutiga, Samuel Kilonzo, Odiyo, Olivia, Madahana, Sammy Larry, Milić, Dragan, Sinyinda, Lubasi, Mwansa, Kabamba, Mukaro, Ronica, Chaingeni, Davison, Asea, Godfrey, Kwemoi, Daniel Bomet, Musundire, Lennin

“…This paper outlines the costing strategy and demonstrates the tool's utility using data from national breeding programs in Uganda (NARO), Zambia (ZARI), and Zimbabwe (DR&SS). Results show that the percentage of budgets allocated to germplasm development ranged from 25% (DR&SS) to 52% (NARO), with conventional methods costing 7 to 47 times more than doubled haploids. …”
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: case studies from Southern Africa by Shackleton, S., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Case studies were undertaken during 1999 in eight southeastern/eastern African countries; Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa (two separate studies) and Tanzania. …”
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Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address by Colfer, C.J.P., Komarudin, Heru, German, L., Nyangas, S., Siagian, Y., Tanui, J.

“…This paper briefly reviews CIFOR’s experience using participatory action research working with communities, user groups within communities, and with governments at various levels, in Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, and Zimbabwe. The most dramatic changes that took place early on included increases in knowledge about social and ecological systems and improved skills in conflict management, negotiation, and facilitation. …”
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The utilisation of complete cereal-based diets differing in roughage inclusion level by Matabele goats and Sabi sheep by Hatendi, P.R., Ndlovu, L.R., Smith, T., Said, A.N.

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A panel of microsatellite and minisatellite markers for the characterisation of field isolates of Theileria parva by Oura, C.A.L., Odongo, David O., Lubega, G.W., Spooner, P.R., Tait, A., Bishop, Richard P.

“…In order to demonstrate the utility of these markers, we characterised eight tissue culture isolates of T. parva isolated from cattle in widely separated regions of Eastern and Southern Africa (one from Zambia, one from Uganda, two from Zimbabwe, four from Kenya) and one Kenyan tissue culture isolate from Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer). …”
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Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners by International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Catholic Relief Services, CARE Norway

“…The case studies were undertaken in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. No. 3 introduces the general concept of seed security and differentiates parameters of availability, access, and seed and variety quality, as well as distinguishing chronic from acute stress. …”
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Aide semenciere pour une securite semenciere: a l'intention des intervenants by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…The case studies were undertaken in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. No. 3 introduces the general concept of seed security and differentiates parameters of availability, access, and seed and variety quality, as well as distinguishing chronic from acute stress. …”
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