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Postharvest quality of two orange‐fleshed sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam] cultivars as influenced by organic soil amendment treatments por Atuna, R.A., Aduguba, W.O., Alhassan, A., Abukari, I.A., Muzhingi, T., Amagloh, F.K., Mbogo, D.

“…Apomuden is a variety, while “Nane” is being evaluated to be released in Ghana. The storage roots (SRs) were harvested at 3 months, cured by heaping the SRs and covering with the sweet potato foliage for 7 days in the field. …”
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Use of innovative technologies for improving water accounting and financial viability of water consumer associations [Abstract only] por Anarbekov, Oyture, Khodjaev, Shovkat

“…Within the project, Smartsticks are being used to estimate water consumption and whether the implementation of water tariffs influence water use decisions by farmers. …”
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Perennial ryegrass and novel festulolium forage grasses in the tropical highlands of Central Kenya: Preliminary assessment por Mwendia, Solomon W., Maass, Brigitte L., Njenga, David, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

“…At the end of the first growth cycle, 61 local dairy farmers rated the grasses on criteria they nominated as being important, including DMY, growth rate, height, frost tolerance, disease tolerance and leafiness. …”
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Risk factors for Brucella seroprevalence in peri-urban dairy farms in five Indian cities por Lindahl, Johanna F., Gill, J.P.S., Hazarika, R.A., Fairoze, N.M., Bedi, J.S., Dohoo, I., Chauhan, A.S., Grace, Delia, Kakkar, M.

“…Within the high-prevalence city, farms were at higher risk of being infected if they had a young owner and if they were judged less clean. …”
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Leucaena + maize alley cropping in Malawi; part 2: residual P and leaf management effects on maize nutrition and soil properties por Wendt, J.W., Jones, R.B., Bunderson, W.T., Itimu, A.O.

“…Leaves supplied more K and Zn to the upper 15 cm of soil than were being extracted by the maize crop, but uniform leaf additions eliminated differences in K and Zn uptake. …”
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Lanzamiento de una plataforma multiactoral para promocionar el uso sostenible de los granos andinos: Memorias del foro realizado en Puno, Perú, 11-13 de noviembre de 2009 por Jäger, M., Valdivia, R., Padulosi, S., Arce, J., Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales y de Medio Ambiente, Bioversity International, Agencia Suiza para el Desarollo y la Cooperation

“…Ultimately, this collective action is meant to improve the prospects of small farmers in agricultural markets.This document highly recommended for agencies and workers engaged in promoting Andean Grains in Peru and other countries in Latin America, where these crops are being increasingly recognized as strategic livelihood assets to fight poverty and nutrition insecurity within a climate changing scenario (in Spanish). …”
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Back by popular demand: the benefits of traditional vegetables: One community's story por Moore, C., Raymond, R.D.

“…So-called neglected or underused crops are often an important source of nutrition as well as being adapted to the marginal environments in which they grow. …”
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Effectiveness of communication channels on level of awareness and determinants of adoption of improved common bean technologies among smallholder farmers in Tanzania por Lugamara, C.B., Urassa, J.K., Nguezet, P.M.D., Masso, C.

“…The factors significantly (p ≤ 0.05) associated with smallholder farmers’ adoption of improved legume technologies were visits by extension officers, age of household head, being member of a farmers’ association, revenue from other income-generating activities and household size. …”
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Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of rapid agricultural development por Williams, Brooke A., Grantham, Hedley S., Watson, James E.M., Álvarez, Silvia J., Simmonds, Jeremy S., Rogéliz, Carlos A., Silva, Mayesse Aparecida da, Forero-Medina, Germán, Etter, Andrés, Nogales, Jonathan, Walschburger, Tomas, Hyman, Glenn G., Beyer, Hawthorne L.

“…This framework can be used by stakeholders to achieve agriculture expansion goals and maximise economic profit while minimising impacts on the environment in the Orinoquia, or any relatively intact region that is being developed.…”
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Contribution of small ruminants to food security for Ethiopian smallholder farmers por Desta, Hiwot, Alemu, Biruk G., Kinati, Wole, Mulema, Annet A., Eerdewijk, Anouka van, Wieland, Barbara

“…When investigating purpose of small ruminant production at household level through a household survey, the importance of small ruminants for food security were confirmed; however, gender differences were less apparent. Being able to sell animals at short notice was the main reason for keeping small ruminants for both women and men followed by meat and milk for home consumption. …”
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Monitoreo de prácticas y tecnologías implementadas en el TeSAC Santa Rita, Honduras (2017) – Infografía por Almentero, Heyni, Sarruf Romero, Lauren P., Bonilla Findji, Osana, Martínez Barón, Deissy

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Genetic analysis of resistance to Radopholus similis in Banana por Habineza, J.C.

“…The resistant and partial resistant hybrids from this study can be used as source of resistance in banana breeding after being evaluated for other important traits. For the QTLs identification, the same material highlighted above was genotyped using Diversity Array Technology – sequencing (DArTSeq) platform that generated 88,947 SNPs. …”
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Metagenomic analysis of plant viruses associated with papaya ringspot disease in Carica papaya L. in Kenya por Mumo, N.N., Mamati, G.E., Ateka, E.M., Rimberia, F.K., Asudi, G.O., Boykin, L.M., Machuka, Eunice M., Njuguna, Joyce N., Pelle, Roger, Stomeo, Francesca

“…Furthermore, the NGS and RT-PCR analysis identified MWMV as being strongly associated with ringspot symptoms in infected papaya fruits. …”
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Unlocking plant resources to support food security and promote sustainable agriculture por Ulian, Tiziana, Diazgranados, Mauricio, Pironon, Samuel, Padulosi, Stefano, Liu, Udayangani, Davies, Lee, Howes, Melanie-Jayne R., Borrell, James S., Ondo, Ian, Pérez Escobar, Oscar A., Sharrock, Suzanne L., Ryan, Philippa, Hunter, Danny, Lee, Mark A., Barstow, Charles, Łuczaj, Łukasz, Pieroni, Andrea, Cámara Leret, Rodrigo, Noorani, Arshiya, Mba, Chikelu, Womdim, Rémi Nono, Muminjanov, Hafiz, Antonelli, Alexandre, Pritchard, Hugh W., Mattana, Efisio

“…Most of these 7,039 edible species have additional uses, the most common being medicines (70%), materials (59%), and environmental uses (40%). …”
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Sward heights for maximizing herbage and nutrient intake rate of dairy heifers grazing kikuyu grass and reduce in vitro methane production por Marín Gómez, Alejandra

“…The CH4 (ml /g IVDMD) showed a broken line response being similar between 10 to 20 cm sward height, and then, increased with increases in sward height above to 21 cm. …”
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Prevalence of tick-transmitted pathogens in cattle reveals that Theileria parva, Babesia bigemina and Anaplasma marginale are endemic in Burundi por Nyabongo, Lionel, Kanduma, Esther G., Bishop, Richard P., Machuka, Eunice M., Njehu, Alice, Bimenyimana, Alain V., Nkundwanayo, C., Odongo, David O., Pelle, Roger

“…Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) constitute a major constraint for livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa, with East Coast fever (ECF) being the most devastating TBD of cattle. However, in Burundi, detailed information is lacking on the current prevalence of TBDs and on the associated economic losses from mortality and morbidity in cattle as well as the costs associated with TBD control and treatment. …”
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Women’s involvement in coffee agroforestry value-chains: Financial training, Village Savings and Loans Associations, and Decision power in Northwest Vietnam por Simelton, Elisabeth, Mulia, Rachmat, Nguyen, Toan T, Duong, Tuan M, Le, Hieu X, Tran, Ly H, Halbherr, Lucia

“…All 169 women in this survey received gender equality and finance training, with one group being members of a VSLA and taking out small loans. …”
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Policies, multi-stakeholder approaches and home-grown school feeding programs for improving quality, equity and sustainability of school meals in Northern Tanzania por Roothaert, Ralph L., Mpogol, Hosea, Hunter, Danny, Ochieng, Justus, Kejo, Dyness

“…The results show that Tanzania lacks a clear policy on school feeding; there are no guidelines for school meal quality, participation in school feeding programs is not mandatory, leading to many students being left out and going hungry. Students in private schools tend to be better off than those in public schools in terms of provision and quality of school meals. …”
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Testing the Various Pathways Linking Forest Cover to Dietary Diversity in Tropical Landscapes por Baudron, Frédéric, Tomscha, S.A., Powell, B., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Gergel, Sarah E., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…In addition, we found evidence of forest cover being negatively related to at least one indicator of diet quality in three landscapes (Indonesia, Nicaragua and Zambia), and to integration to the cash economy in three landscapes (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nicaragua). …”
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The influence of groundwater abstraction on interpreting climate controls and extreme recharge events from well hydrographs in semi-arid South Africa por Sorensen, J. P. R., Davies, J., Lindle, J., Marchant, B. P., Ascott, M. J., Bloomfield, J.P., Cuthbert, M. O., Holland, M., Jensen, K.H., Shamsudduha, M., Villholth, Karen G., MacDonald, A. M., Taylor, R. G., Ebrahim, Girma Yimer

“…It is possible that high groundwater abstraction near C3/C4 sites masks frequent small-scale recharge events observed at C1/C2 sites, resulting in extreme events associated with negative ENSO years being more visible in the time series.…”
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