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Food safety in low and middle income countries por Grace, Delia

“…Training informal value chain actors who receive business benefits from being trained has been more successful. New technologies, growing public concern and increased emphasis on food system governance can also improve food safety.…”
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Sheep and goat development project, Kenya. Breeding and Research

“…As part of the Sheep and Goat Development Project being undertaken by the Government of Kenya with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Rations, studies were carried out to ascertain the feasibility of sheep and goat development in the arid and medium and high-potential areas. …”
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Peripheral plasma levels of progesterone and oestradiol-17B of West African Dwarf goats during the oestrous cycle por Akusu, M.O., Nduka, E., Soyebo, B.A.

“…Progesterone levels were very low during the first four days of the cycle (day 1 = day of oestrous) with the lowest level of 0.3 ± 0.02 ng/ml being recorded on day 2 of the cycle. There was a steady rise in the levels during the cycle until day 15 when the highest level of 2.2 ± 0.05 ng/ml was recorded which was followed by a sharp decline on day 20 (P <0.05). …”
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Consideraciones en la estructuracion de una red cooperativa internacional para la evaluacion de variedades promisorias de yuca por Toro, Julio C., Franklin, D.

“…Two strategies for evaluating cultivars were proposed: (1) give the same opportunities to one group of cultivars for 3 consecutive years without considering their field behavior (conservative approach), or (2) select the most promising material yearly to be tested in several sites before being designated as varieties. A diagram illustrates what could happen to a promising variety. …”
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Gender integration in livestock and fisheries value chains: Emerging good practices from analysis to action por Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Kantor, Paula, Kruijssen, Froukje, Longley, Catherine, Colverson, Kathleen E.

“…This paper examines recent and on-going work to develop tools for effective gender analyses in value chains and how these are being fed into project design. Case studies are taken from Zambia, Kenya and Egypt.…”
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Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns por Okello, J.J., Kwikiriza, N., Kakuhenzire, R., Parker, M., Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar, Pambo, K.O.

“…It concludes that farm household (micro-level) decisions on potato production are driving and being driven by the environmental/ physical (meso) level ecology. …”
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Measuring transboundary water cooperation: learning from the past to inform the sustainable development goals por Saruchera, D., Lautze, Jonathan F.

“…Six indicators were ultimately determined as being suitable for measuring water cooperation. As the SDG process turns its focus to the selection of indicators, the indicators proposed in this paper may merit consideration.…”
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India's groundwater storage trends influenced by tube well intensification por Chinnasamy, Pennan, Agoramoorthy, G.

“…Results showed that GW is being depleted at 8, 5.3, and 14.7 cm (Billion Cubic Meters)/year during the study period. …”
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Motor pump revolution in Ethiopia: promises at a crossroads por Dessalegn, Mengistu, Merrey, Douglas J.

“…We show that while farmers understand the social nature of community-managed irrigation, they share with policymakers a narrow understanding of pump irrigation as being primarily 'technical'. They perceive pumps as liberating them from the 'social' limitations of traditional communal irrigation. …”
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Cassava brown streak por Legg, James P., Kumar, P. Lava, Kanju, E.

“…Both host plant resistance and cultural methods are being used to manage the effects of the disease. …”
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Water policy in Canada por Horbulyk, Theodore M.

“…Especially when water resources are under pressure from competing demands, or when water quality is threatened, it is logical to question whether the available water resources are being used in the best way possible. Water allocation policy is a multifaceted and far reaching tool with which governments can in uence the structure of the economy and quality of residents’ lives. …”
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Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa por Movik, S., Mehta, L., van Koppen, Barbara

“…The emphasis on institutional structures being aligned with hydrological boundaries has formed a major part of how IWRM has been interpreted and conceptualised, and it has turned out to become a protracted power struggle reflecting the tensions between centralised and decentralised management.…”
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Reforestation, carbon sequestration and agriculture: can carbon financing promote sustainable smallholder activities in Nicaragua? por Porras, Ina, Amrein, Alexandra, Vorley, Bill

“…CommuniTree’s successful approach is being explored for replication in Guatemala, Haiti and El Salvador, and its approach to data management and benefit sharing is informing the design of future Plan Vivo projects.…”
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Organisational Baseline Study: Overview report for My Loi CSV, Vietnam (VN02) por Duong, Minh Tuan, Hai, Le Van, Simelton, Elisabeth

“…The main farming systems comprise a blend of crop-livestock systems with the main crops being rainfed rice, cassava, peanut, and acacia. …”
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Economic analysis of Imazapyrresistant maize technology for small farm households in western Kenya por Mignouna, Djana B., Manyong, Victor M., Mutabazi, K.D., Senkondo, E., Madulu, R.B., Labintan, C.A., Akinola, Adebayo A.

“…Imazapyrresistant maize (IRM) technology is being promoted as a response to the increasing Striga problem. …”
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Squaring the Circle Reconciling the Need for Rigor with the Reality on the Ground in Resilience Impact Assessment por Béné, Christophe, Chowdhury, Fahim S., Rashid, Mamun, Dhali, Sabbir A., Jahan, Ferdous

“…As a consequence, an increasing number of development interventions that aim at strengthening the resilience of vulnerable households and communities are now being implemented across the globe. Along with these interventions, a growing and urgent call for rigorous monitoring and evaluation has emerged. …”
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Impact of infestation by parasitic weeds on rice farmers' productivity and technical efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa por Ncho, S.A., Mourits, M., Demont, M., Adegbola, Patrice Ygue, Lansink, A.O.

“…The results will assist national extension in designing segmented training programmes that are better tailored to rice farmers’ needs and preventing food security from being jeopardized by parasitic weeds.…”
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International cooperation por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…The international web blight nursery was assembled, being distributed to, and planted in, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama. …”
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The water futures and solutions initiative of IIASA [International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis] por Burek, P., Langan, Simon J., Cosgrove, W., Fischer, Gundula, Kahil, T., Magnusziewski, P., Satoh, Y., Tramberend, S., Wada, Y., Wiberg, David A.

“…Its objective is to developing scientific evidence and applying systems analysis to help identify water-related policies and management practices that work together consistently across scales and sectors to improve human well-being through water security. The Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative has produced a consistent and comprehensive projection for global possible water futures. …”
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An insight in the reproductive biology of Therophilus javanus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, and Agathidinae), a potential biological control agent against the legume pod borer (Lepidop... por Souna, D.A., Bokonon-Ganta, A.H., Ravallec, M., Cusumano, A., Pittendrigh, Barry Robert, Volkoff, A.N., Tamò, Manuele

“…Therophilus javanus is a koinobiont, solitary larval endoparasitoid currently being considered as a biological control agent against the pod borer Maruca vitrata, a devastating cowpea pest causing 20–80% crop losses in West Africa. …”
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