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Indigenous chicken production and marketing systems in Ethiopia: Characteristics and opportunities for market-oriented development por Moges, F., Tegegne, Azage, Dessie, Tadelle

“…These woredas are Pilot Learning Woredas (PLWs) of the Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project being implemented by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). …”
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Collaborative research on Sesbania in East and Southern Africa. Proceedings of a workshop por Kategile, J.A., Adoutan, S.B.

“…Interest in Sesbania has probably been spurred by the awareness and emphasis being given to the incorporation of multipurpose trees in tropical agricultural systems with the potential benefits of improving water and soil conservation and soil improvement in addition to providing animal feed, fuel wood and other products. …”
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Mapping genes for resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes por Behnke, J.M., Lowe, A., Menge, M., Iraqi, F.A., Wakelin, D.

“…F2 and eventually F6 generations from crosses between resistant SWR and susceptible CBA strains are being phenotyped for parasitological and immunological traits. …”
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Overstocking the range: A critical analysis of the environmental science of Sahelian pastoralism por Turner, M.

“…A case study examines the underlying causes of the cattle population boom in the Maasina during the 1960s. Rather than being solely a biological phenomenon, growth in the Maasina cattle population resulted from the historical confluence of inoculation programs with greater local demand for covert accumulation brought about by the changing social relations between the FulBe and the RimayBe.…”
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Theileria parva: Sporozoite entry into bovine lymphocytes is not dependent on the parasite cytoskeleton por Shaw, M.K.

“…The results are consistant with sporozoite entry being primarily a possibe process and with a functional host cell actin cytoskeleton that is required only to maintain the molecular integrity of the surface membrane. …”
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Climate change: do we know how it will affect smallholder livestock farmers? por Thornton, Philip K., Steeg, Jeannette van de, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Herrero, Mario

“…The objective was to help set research priorities: to inform the debate as to what research for development organizations such as ILRI could and should be doing in the area of climate change work that could add value to the large amounts of work already being carried out by the Global Change community on cropping systems and natural resources management. …”
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Towards transdisciplinarity in technology and resource management research: A project in Ethiopia por Jabbar, M.A., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A., Li-Pun, H.

“…An agroecosystem health approach to ecosystem analysis is currently being used as an integrative analytical framework. …”
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Bovine helper T-cell clones specific for lymphocytes infected with Theileria parva (Muguga) por Baldwin, Cynthia L., Goddeeris, M., Morrison, W. Ivan

“…These clones were non‐cytolytic and had the BoT4+BoT8‐surface phenotype, BoT4 and BoT8 being the bovine analogues of human CD4 and CD8 molecules. …”
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Further studies of cyclical transmission and antigenic variation of the ILDar 1 serodeme of Trypanosoma vivax por Gardiner, Peter R., Thatthi, R., Gathuo, H., Nelson, R., Moloo, S.K.

“…When antigenically homogeneous, or mixed, populations were transmitted by tsetse flies to goats, the first peak parasitaemias arising in the goats were antigenic mixtures (up to 9 major, and several minor variants being recognized in some cases) from which the ingested variant was absent. …”
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Measuring the costs of African animal trypanosomosis, the potential benefits of control and returns to research por Kristjanson, Patricia M., Swallow, B.M., Rowlands, G.J., Kruska, Russell L., Leeuw, P.N. de

“…Given an adoption period of 12 years, a maximum adoption rate of 30 percent, a discount rate of 5 percent, and a 30 percent probability of the research being successful within 10 years, the net present value of the vaccine research is estimated to be at least $288 million, with an internal rate of return of 33 percent, and a benefit/cost ratio of 34.1.…”
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Intensified agricultural land-use and bird conservation in Burkina Faso por Soderstrom, B., Kiema, S., Reid, Robin S.

“…Of 23 species restricted to one land-use type, 16 were found on cultivated land or recent fallows, 8 of them being categorized as uncommon in West Africa. Guild analyses suggest that availability of nest sites and food were the principal factors affecting bird distribution. …”
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Livestock to 2020: The next food revolution por Delgado, Christopher L., Rosegrant, Mark W., Steinfeld, H., Ehui, Simeon K., Courbois, C.

“…Looking forward to 2020, they argue convincingly that the structural shifts in world agriculture being brought about by shifts in developing country demand for foods of animal origin will continue and that increasingly global markets have the ability to supply both cereal and animal products in desired quantities without undue price rises. …”
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A conceptual framework to evaluate the impact of innovation platforms on agrifood value chains development por Cadilhon, Joseph J.

“…Although innovation platforms are being set up to attain collectively defined development objectives, there are limited methods and tools available using quantitative data to evaluate whether they are effective. …”
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Monitoring adaptation to enhance food security: a survey of approaches and best practice por Chesterman, Sabrina, Ericksen, Polly J.

“…This report explored current approaches to monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects and specifically how food security outcomes are being addressed. It emerged that monitoring and evaluation of adaptation projects is fairly new, and most documents outline frameworks rather than report on specific experiences. …”
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Use of agro-climate ensembles for quantifying uncertainty and informing adaptation por Challinor, Andrew J., Stafford Smith, M., Thornton, Philip K.

“…This paper introduces all of these areas of progress, with more detail being found in the subsequent papers in the special issue. …”
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Comparison of indigenous and foreign cattle for beef production at Matopos Research Station in Zimbabwe por Mpofu, N.

“…A large experiment was initiated at Matopos Research Station in 1938, the objective being to define a suitable breeding system for the improvement of exotic and indigenous cattle. …”
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Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) in tropical Latin America: implications for biodiversity conservation, natural resource management and human nutrition por Graefe, Sophie, Dufour, D., Zonneveld, M. van, Rodríguez, F., González, A.

“…Complex value chains have emerged that link producers to consumers, but irregular product quality and market chain inequalities undermine the economic well-being of producers and retailers. Peach palm is genetically diverse, but screening for traits of commercial and nutritional interest is required to enhance the use of its genetic resources. …”
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Global land cover uncovered por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…In order to fully understand how land is being used for food production and foresee how land use will change in the future, reliable crop maps are essential. …”
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Unit one - Water resources and scarcity. [Training/Course material] por Fraiture, Charlotte de, Manning-Thomas, Nadia, David, S.

“…This important background information on water resources is vital for being able to address the management aspect of the module's title.…”
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Household and environmental factors influencing anthropometric outcomes in pre-school children in a rural Ethiopian community por Okike, Iheanacho, Jabbar, M.A., Abate, G., Ketema, L.

“…The results show that a child's nutritional and health status are jointly determined by dietary intake, well-being of the mother as the primary caregiver, and the state of the physical environment for agricultural production and healthy living. …”
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