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Participatory definition of trait preferences for designing village breeding schemes for goats in harsh environments of Ethiopia by Dessie, Tadelle, Gebreyesus, G., Mekuriaw, Getinet, Woldu, T., Jembere, T., Agaba, Morris, Okeyo Mwai, Ally

“…To this end, a community-based goat breeding project is being implemented in 5 zones of Ethiopia by ILRI and its partners. …”
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Beyond one-size-fits-all: differentiating market access measures for commodity systems in the Kenyan highlands by Baltenweck, Isabelle, Staal, Steven J.

“…Simple measures of market access have the advantage of being more easily interpretable, and should therefore be preferred when communicating research outputs to the non-scientific community, especially decision-makers. …”
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Report on capacity building on mainstreaming gender to lifeland partners by Sikira, A.

“…We appreciate the support from TNC Project Management in particular Mr. Felix Kamau for being such a good project leader and for the cooperation. …”
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Restoring lands and livelihoods in Burkina Faso: the business of one association by Elias, Marlène, Vinceti, B.

“…The organization’s aim is to help improve ecosystems for the purpose of improving the well-being of local households. The organization considers – and calls – farmers its partners. …”
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Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso by Venot, Jean-Philippe, Daré, William, Kabore, Etienne, Francoise, Gerard, Tapsoba, Abdoulaye, Idani, Donatien, Carboni, Simone

“…The paper stresses the efforts made to put in place a fair and equitable compensation mechanism for the people being affected by the extension of the irrigated area downstream of the Bagré dam. …”
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Developing local organizational capacity for participatory seed management: Experiences from the Eastern Himalayas by Gurung, Barun, Gurung, Prem

“…This paper describes the objectives and goals oh participatory seed-management initiative that is presently being conducted in the Sankhuwasabha District of eastern Nepal as part of the Gender, Ethnicity and Agro biodiversity Management" project. …”
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Copper chloride as an extractant for estimating the potentially reactive aluminum pool in acid soils by Juo, A.S.R., Kamprath, E.J.

“…Generally, more than twice as much Al was extracted from acid surface soils (< pH 5) by 1N CuCl2 than by 1N KCl suggesting that Al bound by organic matter was being extracted by the CuCl2.…”
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Expenditure elasticities of demand for major food items in south-east Nigeria by Nweke, F.I., Okorji, E.C., Njoku, J.E., King, D.J.

“…The estimates also suggest that although in certain forms of preparation cassava may be an inferior food item, in other forms, it is far from being inferior; it may even be superior to yam. This suggests that there is need for improvement in cassava-processing technology to improve quality and expand the market for that root crop.…”
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Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya by Jensen, Nathaniel D., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G.

“…Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about these programs' comparative impacts on participant behavior or well-being. This paper exploits exogenous variation in program participation and panel data from Kenya to compare the causal impacts of a cash transfer program (HSNP) and an index-based insurance product (IBLI), which were implemented contemporaneously among the same population. …”
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The potential and limits of farmers’ groups as catalysts of women leaders by Nakazi, Florence, Aseete, Paul, Katungi, Enid M., Ugen, Michael Adrogu

“…The study found that groups had an average of 5 leadership positions and women strong leadership skills lie in being treasurers (70%). Number of households represented (10.7%), record keeping (27.9%), proportion of both youth (19.4%), and women (69.7%), number of economic activities (2.9%) were the key factors that influence the proportion of women in group leadership. …”
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Grazing management innovation as a strategy to improve animal production and reduce GHG emissions by Marín, Alejandra, Baldissera, Tiago C., Pinto, Cassiano, Garagorry, Fabio, Zubieta, Angel, Giraldo, Luis Alfonso, Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Arango, Jacobo, Carvalho, Paulo

“…In Colombia, livestock growth appears to be not only inevitable but also desirable for the economy, jobs, and nutrition (FCRN, 2017), grazing systems are now being re-designed to conciliate production with environmental management and improve overall efficiency (Carvalho, 2013). …”
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Tartary buckwheat genetic diversity in the Himalayas associated with farmer landrace diversity and low dietary dependence by Huang, W., Jarvis, Devra I., Ahmed, S., Long, C.

“…We advocate for the diversification of crops in agricultural systems as well as diets through the integration of scientific research and farmers’ ecological knowledge and practices towards meeting global food security while supporting environmental well-being through biodiversity conservation…”
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Evaluation of maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes as a component of integrated stem borer (Chilo partellus Swinhoe) management in coastal region of Kenya by Ajala, S.O., Nour, A.M., Ampong-Nyarko, K., Odindo, M.O.

“…Generally, varietal crosses were higher yielding than the open pollinated populations with grain yield itself being primarily influenced by number of ears harvested per plot. …”
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GCP21: a global cassava partnership for the 21st century by Fauquet, Claude M., Tohme, Joseph M.

“…It is also recognized as being resilient to climate change. Its global average yield, however, is only 13 Mt/ha, compared to a potential of at least 65 Mt/ha, partly due to the impact of pests and diseases. …”
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Techniques for detecting genetically modified crops and products by Tripathi, L.

“…The cultivation of genetically modified crops is becoming increasingly important; more traits are emerging and more acres than ever before are being planted with GM varieties. The release of GM crops and products in the markets worldwide has increased the regulatory need to monitor and verify the presence and the amount of GM varieties in crops and products. …”
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Baseline Survey Report:IV. Hanku, Jumla. Integrating traditional crop genetic diversity into technology: Using a biodiversity portfolio against unpredictable environmental change i... by Palikhey, E., Sthapit, S.R., Gautam, S., Gauchan, D., Bhandari, B., Joshi, B.K., Sthapit, B.R.

“…The Local Crop Project is being implemented from 2014 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is executed in Nepal by Bioversity International, National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre (NAGRC) within the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD) and the Department of Agriculture (DoA). …”
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Multivariate analyses of supposedly duplicate accessions of east African highland bananas in germplasm colections in Uganda by Pickersgrill, B., Vuylsteke, D.R., Gold, C., Karamura, E.B., Kiggundu, A., Karamura, D.

“…The analyses also detected examples of human error (mislabelling or mixing of suckers), and of one local name being used for more than one clone. The analyses sorted the accessions into groups which agreed in general with an independent subjective classification.…”
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Determinants of market production of cooking banana in Nigeria by Tshiunza, M., Lemchi, J., Tenkouano, A.

“…Thus, cooking banana performs the dual role of providing food for the households, as well as being an additional source of cash income. Tobit regression analysis revealed that the price and the ripening stage at sale of cooking banana, as well as the presence of middlemen in the marketing chain were the most important determinants of the proportion of cooking banana planted for market. …”
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Genomic sequence derived simple sequence repeat markers: case study with Medicago spp by Mahalakshmi, V., Aparana, P., Ramadevi, S., Ortíz, R.

“…Simple sequence repeats (SSR) or micro-satellites are becoming standard DNA markers for plant genome analysis and are being used as markers in marker assisted breeding. …”
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa by Ickowitz, Amy, Powell, Bronwen, Salim, Mohammad A., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…A better understanding of this relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic Health Survey data on food consumption for children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree cover data to examine the relationship between tree cover and three key indicators of nutritional quality of children's diets: dietary diversity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and animal source food consumption. …”
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