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Economía por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Case studies of policies affecting bean production and markets are undertaken when they have an important impact on the environment for which the new technology is being developed. A great deal of the research on all these issues is conducted in collaboration with national programs. …”
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Mejoramiento genético y actividades relacionadas. Mejoramiento de características individuales. Resistencia a enfermedades virosas por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Various bean chlorotic mottle virus isolates have been made and are currently being characterized. Results are included in table form. …”
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Economics por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Case studies of policies affecting bean production and markets are undertaken when they have an important impact on the environment for which the new technology is being developed. A great deal of the research on all these issues is conducted in collaboration with national programs. …”
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Genetic improvement and related activities. Improvement of individual characters. Resistance to viral diseases por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Various bean chlorotic mottle virus isolates have been made and are currently being characterized. Results are included in table form. …”
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Present situation and future potential of cassava in India por Edison, S.

“…Some of the imminent problems faced by the cassava starch industry, and efforts being made to address these issues, are narrated. …”
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Men and women farmers’ perceptions of adopting improved diets for pigs in Uganda: decision‑making, income allocation, and intra‑household strategies that mitigate relative disadvan... por Carter, Natalie A., Humphries, S., Grace, Delia, Ouma, Emily A., Dewey, Catherine E.

“…Results: Potential benefits of improved diet adoption included faster pig growth; increased farmer income and pig population; new on-farm employment and produce market opportunities; and improved pig market opportunities and family- and community-level well-being. Contradictory views about the potential impact of diet adoption on labour requirements and feed costs, and the inclusion of seasonal, home-grown ingredients were expressed. …”
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The sero-epidemiology of Rift Valley fever in people in the Lake Victoria Basin of western Kenya por Cook, Elizabeth A.J., Grossi-Soyster, E.N., Glanville, William A. de, Thomas, Lian F., Kariuki, S., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Wamae, C.N., LaBeaud, A.D., Fèvre, Eric M.

“…The seroprevalence of RVFV in slaughterhouse workers was 2.5% (95% CI 1.5–4.2). Being the slaughterman, the person who cuts the animal’s throat (OR 3.5; 95% CI 1.0–12.1, p = 0.047), was significantly associated with RVFV seropositivity. …”
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Urban livestock keeping in the city of Nairobi: Diversity of production systems, supply chains, and their disease management and risks por Alarcón, Pablo, Fèvre, Eric M., Muinde, P., Murungi, M.K., Kiambi, S., Akoko, James M., Rushton, Jonathan

“…Control of urban livestock keepers was reported difficult due to their ‘feeling of being outlaws’, ‘lack of trust’ in government, ‘inaccessibility’ in informal settlements, ‘lack of government funding’ or ‘understaffing’. …”
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Immunogenicity of the Newcastle disease virus vaccine La Sota, in introduced birds under intensive and extensive management conditions por Abera, Berhanu, Lynch, Stacey E., Duguma, Reta, Dessie, Tadelle, Bettridge, Judy M., Wigley, Paul, Christley, Robert M.

“…Though breeds differ genetically in their immune responsiveness to the antigen, and being protected following challenge; difference in their susceptibility to the virulent challenge virus needs to be ruled out in order to facilitate the improvement of disease-resistant traits.…”
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Pathogenic variation of Phakopsora pachyrhizi infecting soybean in Nigeria por Twizeyimana, M., Ojiambo, P.S., Sonder, Kai, Ikotun, T., Hartman, G.L., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit

“…Prevalence of infected fields and disease severity in surveyed fields were signifi-cantly (P <0.05) different between geographical zones with both vari-ables being higher in the DS zone than in either NGS or SGS zones. …”
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Promoting regional trade to enhance food security: a case study on the border region of Tanzania and Zambia por Bese, D., Düchting, A., Gebauer, H., Gerken, A., Maeda, C., Manyong, Victor M., Rupschus, C., Starosta, S.

“…Both countries are members of the Southern African Development Community and are intensifying co-operation and trade liberalisation. Although being generally food secure, Tanzania still faces food shortages. …”
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Short and longterm maize yield response to Mucuna pruriens and Pueraria phaseoloides relay fallow and biomass burning versus mulching in the forest zone of Southern Cameroon por Hauser, S., Bengono, B., Bitomo, O.E.

“…In the low LUI site the cumulative maize grain yield over seven years was 30% higher in mucuna fallow than in natural fallow (p < 0.07), the difference being significant at p < 0.05 in only one year. In the medium LUI sites maize grain yield was 65% higher in mucuna fallow (p < 0.001) and 69-94% higher in pueraria fallow (p < 0.001). …”
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Model results versus farmer realities: Operationalizing diversity within and among smallholder farm systems for a nuanced impact assessment of technology packages por Michalscheck, M., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, Kuivanen, K., Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Tittonell, Pablo A.

“…Large differences prevailed among and within farms per type and per region, with low resource endowed farms being projected to benefit most in relative and least in absolute terms from an adoption of the packages. …”
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Relationship between natural occurrence of banana streak badnavirus and symptom expression, relative concentration of viral antigen, and yield characteristics of some micropropagat... por Dahal, G., Ortíz, R., Tenkouano, A., Hughes, J., Thottappilly, G., Vuylsteke, D.R., Lockhart, B.E.L.

“…Virus occurrence and symptom expression, as well as the relative concentration of BSV antigens, fluctuated greatly between seasons during the cropping cycle, being high during the rainy season and low or negligible during the hot dry season. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of silvicultural interventions for increasing timber production and sustaining conservation values in natural tropical production forests: A systematic re... por Petrokofsky, G., Sist, P., Blanc, Lilian, Doucet, J.L., Finegan, B., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Healey, J.R., Livoreil, B., Nasi, Robert, Peña-Claros, M., Putz, F.E., Zhou, W.

“…There has been a gradual impoverishment of forest resources inside selectively logged forests in which the volume of timber extracted over the first cutting cycle was mostly from large, old trees that matured over a century or more and grew in the absence of strong anthropological pressures. In forests now being logged for a second and third time, that volume has not been reconstituted due in part to the lack of implementation of post-logging silvicultural treatments. …”
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Future of plant virus disease research in subSaharan African agriculture por Hughes, J., Naidu , R., Shoyinka, S.A.

“…Crop varieties with acceptable levels of resistance are being developed for some of these diseases. However, this information and the materials are often not utilized effectively by the national programs due to inadequate institutional capacity. …”
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The feasibility of using low-density marker panels for genotype imputation and genomic prediction of crossbred dairy cattle of East Africa por Aliloo, H., Mrode, Raphael A., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Ni, G., Goddard, M.E., Gibson, John P.

“…The (co)variance method provided the highest imputation accuracies at almost all marker densities, with accuracies being up to 0.19 higher than the random selection of SNP. …”
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IPMomics: from genomics to extension for integrated pest management of cowpea: Proceedings of the 5th World Cowpea Research Conference, held at Palm Beach Hotel, Saly, Senegal. 27... por Agunbiade, T.A., Steele, L., Coates, B., Gassmann, A., Margam, V., Ba, M., Dabiré, C., Baoua, I., Bello-Bravo, Julia, Seufferheld, F., Sun, W., Tamò, Manuele, Pittendrigh, B.

“…Many of these tools are currently being developed to help farmers manage insect pests of cowpea in West Africa.…”
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Efficiency and its determinants among smallholder farming units supplying cassava to commercial starch processors in Nigeria: data envelopment analysis approach por Ojiako, I.A., Tarawali, G., Okechukwu, R.U., Chianu, J., Ezedinma, C.I., Edet, M.

“…The states’ selection was purposive, being the states in which the IITA-Nestlé cassava starch project was implemented from 2011-2015. …”
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Using smart ICT to provide weather and water information to smallholders in Africa: the case of the Gash River Basin, Sudan por Amarnath, Giriraj, Simons, G.W.H., Alahacoon, Niranga, Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Sharma, Bharat R., Gismalla, Y., Mohammed, Y., Andriessen, M.C.M.

“…The Ministry of Water Resources of Sudan used the findings of this study to transform farmers’ responses to flood arrival from being ‘reactive’, to planning for the flood event. …”
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