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50-Years of hybrid pigeonpea research and development: The gains and hiccups by Saxena, K.B., Choudhary, A.K., Dalvi, V.A., Saxena, R.K., Kumar, R.V., Chauhan, Y.S., Srivastava, R.K., Kumar, C.V.S., Hingane, A.J., Gangashetty, P., Sultana R., Srivastava, N.

“…This involves sowing the freshly harvested hybrid seeds and assessing their progenies for a dominant quality determining phenotypic marker. Pigeonpea, being a short-day species, its plants flower only when the day length is around 10-11 h. …”
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Protocol for establishing Youth and Women Quality Centres (YWQCs) by Bomuhangi, Allan, Yila, Jummai, Puskur, Ranjitha, Nchanji, Eileen

“…These centres benefit from government support, including physical space and, in some cases, funding or the facilitation of services. Being located on government property ensures a degree of legitimacy and oversight, while also making the centres accessible to a broader number of farmers within the local administrative area. …”
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Inclusive, transformative agri-food systems for sustainable healthy diets, better nutrition, and health by Blare, Trent, Bliznashka, Lilia, Chavarro, Monica Juliana, Jaleta, M., Kasala, Kavitha, Lopez-Avila, Diana, Ravula, Padmaja

“…Problems with water availability, accessibility, and quality negatively impact agri-food systems and contribute to poor health, nutrition, and well-being [7]. The simultaneous manifestation of undernutrition and overnutrition is the double burden of malnutrition and can manifest at the individual, household, or country level [8]. …”
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Policy engagement report: Institutionalizing multifunctional landscapes in Mbire District, Zimbabwe by Matangi, Dorcas, Nohayi, Ngowenani, Ngoma, Hambulo

“…The engagement established a shared understanding of the MFL approach-an integrated framework promoting balance between agricultural production, conservation, and human well-being-and analyzed the alignment of district policies and by-laws with national frameworks such as the Environmental Management Act (Chapter 20:27), Forest Act, Parks and Wildlife Management Act, National Wetlands Policy (2022), and the National Agricultural Policy Framework (2018-2030). …”
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Fuzzy cognitive mapping for systems change: Workshop on systems thinking to build capacity of local stakeholders by Babu, Harish, Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Yanamandram, Koushik, Narielwalla, Rhea, Zhang, Wei, Kumar, Praveen

“…The two-day workshop saw 36 participants (28 women and 8 men) representing a spectrum of stakeholders including farmers, Gram Panchayat representatives, community leaders including women, and representatives from local non-profits and government organizations (for instance: ASHA workers – who are India’s community-based frontline health workers) learning about systems thinking and the need for looking beyond immediate cause-and-effect relationships while addressing issues related to rural livelihoods, governance, and well-being. For the facilitating team from Mytri Sarva Sewa Samiti (MSSS), a well-known non-profit working in Karnataka, Boston College School of Social Work, and Common Ground, it was an opportunity to explore FCM as an instrument for triggering and evaluating systems change. …”
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Assessing long-term management options for the villages in the Korup National Park: an evaluation of all options by Diaw, C., Tiani, A.M., Jum, C.N., Milol, A., Wandji, D.N.

“…At the same time, the present status quo proves not being tenable. Bareka-Batanga is the village the most clearly prepared to resettle, and the least costly too. …”
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Extractive use, management and in situ domestication of a weedy palm, Astrocaryum tucuma, in the central Amazon by Schroth, Götz, Mota, M.S.S. da, Lopes, R., Freitas, A.F. de

“…A management plan was developed that allows maximization of fruit yields while progressively improving the quality characteristics of the extractively used population in an in situ domestication process. Being a low-cost and low-risk strategy, "improved extractivism" can be an appropriate way of growing the arboreal weed, tucuma, and can contribute to increased farm income while increasing the economic value of disturbed areas in the central Amazon…”
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The wealth of the dry forests: can sound forest management contribute to the millennium development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa? by Petheram, L., Campbell, Bruce M., Marunda, C.T., Tiveau, D., Shackleton, S.

“…Growing pressure on dry forest resources to meet human and socioeconomic development needs mean that dry forests are increasingly being utilised unsustainably. Continued degradation of dry forests poses serious problems for a large number of people, especially poorer people who depend on these forests for their livelihoods. …”
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Future environmental impacts and vulnerabilities by Fischlin, A., Ayres, M., Karnosky, D., Kellomäki, S, Louman, Bastian, Ong, C, Plattner, G.K., Santoso, H., Thompson, I, Booth, T.H., Marcar, N., Scholes, B., Swanston, C., Zamolodchikov, D.

“…Among land ecosystems, forests currently house the largest fraction of biodiversity; unmitigated climate change threatens to put significant parts of it at risk. The boreal domain, being especially sensitive, serves as a model case and is treated in particular depth. …”
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The genome of the heartwater agent Ehrlichia ruminantium contains multiple tandem repeats of actively variable copy number by Collins, N.E., Liebenberg, J., Villiers, Etienne P. de, Brayton, K.A., Louw, E., Pretorius, E., Faber, F.E., Heerden, H. van, Josemans, A., Kleef, M. van, Steyn, H.C., Strijp, M.F. van, Zweygarth, E., Jongejan, F., Maillard, J.C., Berthier, D., Botha, M., Joubert, F., Corton, C.H., Thomson, N.R., Allsopp, M.T., Allsopp, B.A.

“…There are 32 predicted pseudogenes, most of which are truncated fragments of genes associated with repeats. Rather then being the result of the reductive evolution seen in other intracellular bacteria, these pseudogenes appear to be the product of ongoing sequence duplication events.…”
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The major cell surface glycoprotein procycline is a receptor for induction of a novel form of cell death in African trypanosomes in vitro by Pearson, T.W., Beecroft, R.P., Welburn, S.C., Ruepp, S., Roditi, I., Kuo-Yuan, H., Englund, P.T., Wells, C.W., Murphy, N.B.

“…These lectins caused the trypanosomes to cease division, become round and increase dramatically in size, the latter being partially attributable to the formation of what appeared to be a large 'vacuole-like structure' or an expanded flagellar pocket. …”
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Study on the sequential tsetse-transmitted Trypanosoma congolense, T. brucei brucei and T. vivax infections to African buffalo, eland, waterbuck, N'Dama and Boran cattle by Moloo, S.K., Orinda, G.O., Sabwa, C.L., Minja, S.H., Masake, R.A.

“…Cyclical development of T. congolense occurred in G. moristans centralis when fed on the bovid hosts, with buffalo being infective for tsetse flies for a much longer period. …”
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Linking seasonal forecasts into risk - view to enhance food security contingency planning by Hansen, James, Tippett M, Bell, M., Ines, Amor V.M.

“…WRSI is used to determine the risk of a region being food insecure in a coming season. To accomplish this, RiskView applies a forward- looking approach in which observed rainfall from the current season is used to calculate WRSI up to the current date, then samples rainfall from historical years to calculate WRSI for the remaining part of the cropping season. …”
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The use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to confirm presence of selected pathogenic bacteria along milk value chain in Tanga region by Shija, F., Misinzo, G., Nonga, H., Kurwijila, Lusato R., Roesel, Kristina, Grace, Delia

“…BACKGROUND Despite the fact that foods of animal source are a minor constituent in most diets, they are responsible for incidents of food-borne illness; dairy products being implicated. Up to 90% of all dairy – related diseases are due to pathogenic bacteria found in milk. …”
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Is research for development a good investment? Reflections on lessons from the NBDC by Merrey, Douglas J.

“…It is time for a critical review of the lessons learned from the investments in R4D, particularly as it is being adopted as the underlying theory of the new CGIAR Research Programs. …”
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Snow cover and soil moisture controls of freeze-thaw-related soil gas fluxes from a typical semi-arid grassland soil: A laboratory experiment by Xing Wu, Bruggemann, N., Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Fu, B., Liu, G.

“…CO2 emissions were a function of soil moisture, with emissions being largest at 50 % WFPS and smallest at 32 % WFPS. …”
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Potential for biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) to reduce nitrification and N2O emissions from pasture-crop-livestock systems by Subbaraoa, Guntur V., Rao, Idupulapati M., Nakahara, K., Sahrawat, Kanwar Lal, Hash, C.T., Ando, Yasuo, Kawashima, T.

“…Synthesis and release of BNIs from plants is a highly regulated process triggered by the presence of NH4 + in the rhizosphere, which results in the inhibitor being released precisely where the majority of the soil-nitrifier population resides. …”
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Forest ecosystem genomics and adaptation: EVOLTREE conference report by Kremer, A., Vinceti, B., Alia, R., Burczyk, J., Cavers, S., Degen, B., Finkeldey, R., Fluch, S., Gomory, D., Gugerli, F., Koelewijn, H.P., Koskela, Jaarko, Lefèvre, F., Morgante, M., Mueller-Starck, G., Plomion, C., Taylor, G., Turok, J., Savolainen, O.

“…Candidate genes have been catalogued for phenological and drought-related traits in important tree families (Salicaceae, Fagaceaea and Pinaceae), and their variation in natural populations is being explored. Genomics can now be integrated in ecological research to investigate evolutionary response to climate changes in a wide range of species. …”
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Processus multi-acteurs pour gerer l’utilisation des eaux usees en agriculture. In French. [Multi-stakeholder processes for managing wastewater use in agriculture]. by Evans, Alexandra E.V., Raschid-Sally, Liqa, Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…How effective these are, what outcomes can be expected, and how they can be improved are all questions that are still being asked. This chapter presents three case studies in which multi-stakeholder processes were used to improve wastewater management for urban agriculture. …”
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Optimizing soil fertility gradients in the Enset (Ensete ventricosum) systems of the Ethiopian highlands: Trade-offs and local innovations by Amede, Tilahun, Taboge, E.

“…About 80 % of the organic resource produced was allocated for maintaining soil fertility, while 20% being allocated as cooking fuel. Of this 65% is allocated for the enset field in the homestead. …”
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