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Food safety in Africa: Past endeavors and future directions by Global Food Safety Partnership

“…Current donor investment in food safety in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) largely reflects the concerns of previous decades and as a result is substantially focused on access to regional and overseas export markets, with emphasis on national control systems. Relatively little is being done to reduce foodborne illness among consumers in SSA. …”
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Water security by Sadoff, Claudia W., Grey, D., Borgomeo, Edoardo

“…Achieving water security requires addressing two fundamental challenges at all scales: enhancing water’s productive contributions to human and ecosystems’ well-being, livelihoods and development, and minimizing water’s destructive impacts on societies, economies, and ecosystems resulting, for example, from too much (flood), too little (drought) or poor quality (polluted) water.…”
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Concluding remarks: the tropical legumes projects empowered communities in a wide variety of assets by Akpo, E., Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…Research institutions, management and technical staff, extension services, NGOs, public and private seed companies, agro-dealers, farmer cooperatives, farmer groups, individual seed entrepreneurs, farmers, women farmers, processors, farm implement makers, and traders have all shared their unique impact stories for being part of TL III families.…”
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Impact stories and testimonies from diverse actors in groundnut value chain in Tanzania by Akpo, E., Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…Adamu, a groundnut farmer from Maugura village, Masasi, shared his success story for being involved in TL projects . “I was taught how to grow the seeds, carry out diagnosis, how to store them, among other things. …”
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Exploring the Agriculture-Nutrition Linkage in Northern Ghana by Signorelli, Sara, Haile, Beliyou, Kotu, Bekele Hundie

“…This study examines the effects of on-farm production diversity and productivity on household dietary diversity using primary data from Ghana, where a sustainable intensification program is being implemented. In addition, it assesses possible heterogeneity in the effect of production diversity by market access. …”
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Economic and psychosocial factors associated with management of bacteria wilt disease in smallholder potato farms: Evidence from Kenya by Okello, J.J., Ochieng, B., Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar

“…However, its production is constrained by seed-borne diseases, with bacteria wilt (BW) being the most devastating and difficult to manage. …”
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Custom Hiring Centers: Facilitating Inclusive Access to Weather-Resilient Technology by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, BAIF Development Research Foundation

“…With more than 80% of the farmers in India being small and marginal, purchasing agricultural machinery such as tillers, threshers, harvesters are not an economically viable option. …”
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Social equity implications of intensification and commercialization in East African livestock systems: Implications for low-emission development by Crane, Todd A., Bullock, Renee, Gichuki, Leah

“…However, with focus on technical practices and outcomes, little attention is being paid to the social distribution of burdens and benefits. …”
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A historical appraisal of the tropical forages collection conserved at CIAT by Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Peters, Michael, Wenzl, Peter

“…Along with introductions from existing collections, currently some 1,600 accessions of 134 grass species and 21,000 accessions of 637 legume species are being maintained. Secondly, information on the utilization of the collection, with emphasis on cultivar development based on selection of accessions from the CIAT collection, is presented. …”
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User guide to the sustainable early generation seed business analysis tool (SEGSBAT) by Rajendran, S., McEwan, M.

“…The tool has been used mainly for sweetpotato, but is being adapted for cassava and other crops. In the future, non-economic functions can be added, e.g. to plan for environmental sustainability.…”
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Disciplining Gender in Environmental Organizations: The Texts and Practices of Gender Mainstreaming by Arora-jonsson, S., Sijapati Basnett, Bimbika

“…Gender experts are being recruited and gender routinized in the everyday work of international environmental organizations today. …”
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Regreening Africa: Consolidated Baseline Survey Report by Hughes, K.A., Oduol, J., Kegode, H., Ouattara, I., Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Bourne, M., Neely, C.L., Ademonla, D., Schoubroeck, F. van, Chomba, S., Carsan, S.

“…Regreening Africa (2017 to 2022) is part of a larger global and regional effort to reverse and halt land degradation, which is being implemented in eight African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, and Somalia.…”
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Forest governance in DRC: an analysis from actors' participation in REDD+ policy development by Pham Thu Thuy, Kengoum Djiegni, F., Moeliono, M., Dwisatrio, B.

“…REDD+ is treated as a project rather than being embedded in national politics.…”
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Scaling knowledge and innovations for food and nutrition security— Tackling dilemmas and blind spots by Koerner, Jana, Lubberink, Rob, Lammers, Ellen, Winter, Daniëlle de

“…The synthesis study examined which dilemmas influence Research for Impact projects that seek to contribute to FNS outcomes at scale, and how blind spots in scaling research and practice are tied to these dilemmas. Being aware of and tackling these blind spots at an early stage contributes to ‘responsible scaling’: not only focusing on technical and socio-economic, but also on ethical considerations about who will benefit or lose out. …”
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Managing Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) (De Long & Wolcott 1923) in the Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia by Chalarca, Jairo Rodríguez, Parody, José Aníbal, Vargas, Carlos Alberto

“…The complex of pathogens that cause the disease in maize are: (1) corn stunt spiroplasma "Spiroplasma kunkelii" (CSS), (2) maize bushy stunt (MBS) and (3) maize fine streak virus (MFS) (Albertazzi Castro 1992, Rodríguez 2020), with leafhoppers Dalbulus maidis and Dalbulus elimatus Ball. being the vector agent. (Sierra-Macías et al. 2007). …”
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Boiled yam end-user preferences and implications for trait evaluation by Honfozo, L., Adinsi, L., Bouniol, A., Adetonah, S., Forsythe, L., Kleih, Uli K., Hounhouigan, Joseph D., Fliedel, G., Akissoe, N.H.

“…Predictive characteristics of yam for producing a high‐ and low‐quality boiled yam were related to morphological or physicochemical characteristics: peeled yam discoloration and mucilage content being negatively appreciated while the ease of peeling, viscous state of cooking water and the ease of breaking yam into pieces positively valued. …”
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Social dimensions of Weather Index Insurance in reaching marginal stakeholders: Lessons from Asia and Africa. Webinar summary report by Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Barua, A.

“…Climate change will have an impact on natural resources, water being one of them, affecting the availability of water including increasing the intensity of floods and droughts. …”
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Women's Land Rights in The Gambia: Socio-legal review by Monterroso, I., Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah, Paez Valencia, Ana Maria

“…These inventions vary according to different types of recognized rights-holders and the area in which rights are being formalized. Access to and control over land and other productive resources in The Gambia is shaped by complex tenure systems. …”
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Webinar report: Potato Seed Production Technology in Southeast Asia – with special focus on Vietnam and Philippines by International Potato Center

“…Potato production in these countries is commercially oriented with more than 80 percent of the harvested crop being sold. The most significant risk a farmer must face is that associated with the high price of seed and its availability in a timely manner.…”
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Participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development: the case of the Pak Beng Dam in Laos by Suhardiman, Diana, Geheb, K.

“…Hydropower development in the lower Mekong Basin is being rapidly developed. Taking the Pak Beng hydropower project in Laos as a case study, this paper looks at participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development, how the latter is revealed by multiple, parallel institutional architectures in hydropower decision-making across scales, and its implications for transboundary environmental governance. …”
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