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Historical Increase of Urban Wastewater Availability Impacts on River Basin Hydrology and Agricultural Development by Jampani, Mahesh, Deval, C.

“…In many cities of the Global South, a substantial portion of this wastewater is either untreated or partially treated and is being discharged into surrounding urban aquatic environments. …”
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Enabling the scaling of evidence-based climate-smart agriculture technologies and innovations in West Africa and the Sahel by Kpadonou, G Esaie, Ganyo, Komla Kyky, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Ouedraogo, Harouna, Lamien, Nieyidouba, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Through AICCRA technical capacity building and action-oriented engagement, each FSRP country has successfully applied the CSA Prioritization Framework (CSA-PF) to evaluate the climate-smartness of technologies and innovations being deployed in each country. The outcomes are compiled in 08 CSA country briefs, guiding the FSRP implementation in each country. …”
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Breeding Climate Resilient and Future Ready Oilseed Crops by Pandey, Manish K., Mallikarjuna, M. G., Lohithaswa, H. C., Aski, Muraleedhar S., Gupta, Sanjeev

“…Further, the availability of next-generation plant breeding tools, such as genomic selection, genome editing, and speed breeding, are being implemented along with traditional and marked assisted selection. …”
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Forests: maintaining the balance by Sayer, Jeffrey A.

“…In many places, however, these benefits are being captured in perverse ways by corrupt elites or squandered by unsustainable exploitation. …”
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Les Approches participatives dans la gestion des ecosystemes forestiers d'Afrique Centrale: revue des initiatives existantes by Nguinguiri, J.C.

“…Developments in the international institutional context and in the capacity of governments to ensure sustainable forest management in Central Africa lead to new approaches to participatory management being explored. The author reviews current initiatives in this field in Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea. …”
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Comparison of rapid methods for detection of Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. (oo)cysts using transportable instrumentation in a field deployment by Keserue, H.A., Fuchslin, H.P., Wittwer, M., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Nguyen, T.T., Surinkul, N., Koottatep, T., Schurch, N., Egli, T.

“…We were able to detect considerably high oo(cysts) concentrations (ranges: 15–855 and 0–240 oo(cysts)/liter for Giardia and Cryptosporidium, respectively) in 85 to 300 min, with FCM being fastest, followed by PCR, and IFM being slowest due to the long analysis time per sample. …”
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Bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus in local breeds of cattle in Kenya by Toye, Philip G., Batten, C.A., Kiara, Henry K., Henstock, M.R., Edwards, L., Thumbi, Samuel M., Poole, Elizabeth J., Handel, Ian G., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Hanotte, Olivier H., Coetzer, Jacobus A.W., Woolhouse, Mark E.J., Oura, C.A.L.

“…The results show that BTV and EHDV are highly prevalent, with cattle being infected from an early age.…”
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Feedlot Performance of the Nguni in southern Mozambique by Maciel, S.M.A., Amimo, Joshua O., Martins, M., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Scholtz, M.M., Neser, F.W.C.

“…Overall means for average age at entry in the feedlot was 31.8 ± 4 months, with the Landim being younger than the Cross (p=0.07). The average live weight at entry in the feedlot was 390 ± 42.5 kg, with no differences between ecotypes (p>0.05). …”
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Global impacts from improved tropical forages: A meta-analysis revealing overlooked benefits and costs, evolving values and new priorities by White, D.W., Peters, Michael, Horne, P.

“…Social effects were reported in fewer than 60% of studies and emphasized household-level outcomes on gender and labor, with most reported effects being non-quantitative. Environmental effects were reported slightly more often than social effects, with recent increases in quantitative estimates of carbon accumulation. …”
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Multiple uses of wastewater: a methodology for cost-effective recycling by Mekala, Gayathri Devi, Davidson, B.A., Boland, A.

“…While wastewater recycling is being promoted to serve varied objectives, little or no research has been done on its economics. …”
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The challenges and uses of quantitative economic modeling of agricultural policy decision process in Africa: a case study of South African land redistribution by Olubode-Awosola, O. O., Schalkwyk, H.D. van

“…The ineffectiveness of policy advice in most African countries could be attributed to problem of scientists not being able to present a holistic solution to policy problems. …”
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Exploring relationships between conservation and poverty reduction in wetland ecosystems: lessons from 10 integrated wetland conservation and poverty reduction initiatives by Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, de Silva, Sanjiv, Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie

“…It is well known that whilst wetlands deliver a wide range of services vital for human well-being, they are being rapidly degraded and lost. …”
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Extensive diversity and inter-genepool introgression in a world-wide collection of indeterminate snap bean accessions by Blair, Matthew W., Chaves, A., Tofiño Rivera, Adriana Patricia, Palacio Mejia, JD, Calderón Sotelo, J.F.

“…Common bean can be grown as a grain crop (dry beans) or as a fresh vegetable (snap beans/green beans), both items being important in nutritional terms for providing essential minerals and vitamins to the diet. …”
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Prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in the Lake Kyoga Basin, Uganda by Nsadha, Z., Thomas, Lian F., Fèvre, Eric M., Nasinyama, G., Ojok, L., Waiswa, C.

“…<i>T. solium</i> has been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UK Department for International Development (DFID) as being a neglected zoonotic disease, and was recently was included in the WHO roadmap for control of neglected tropical diseases. …”
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Climate and Security in Asia and the Pacific (Food, Water and Energy) by Heath, L., Salinger MJ, Falkland T, Hansen, James, Jiang K, Kameyama Y, Kishi, M., Meinke, Holger, Morton K, Nikitina, E., Shukla PR, White I

“…Fisheries play a crucial role in providing food security with the contribution of fish to dietary animal protein being very high in the region – up to 90 % in small island developing states (SIDS). …”
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Nutrition of Maasai Women and Children in relation to subsistence food production. by Nestel, P.S.

“…Milk was the staple food of choice, its availability varied seasonally being heavily dependant on rainfall and the number of cattle owned. …”
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Local disease–ecosystem–livelihood dynamics: reflections from comparative case studies in Africa by Leach, M., Bett, Bernard K., Said, M., Bukachi, S., Sang, R., Anderson, N., Machila, N., Kuleszo, J., Schaten, K., Dzingirai, V., Mangwanya, L., Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y., Lawson, E., Amponsah-Mensah, K., Moses, L.M., Wilkinson, A., Grant, D.S., Koninga, J.

“…This article is part of the themed issue ‘One Health for a changing world: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being’.…”
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Objetivos y resultados obtenidos en mejoramiento en habichuela en el Departamento de Antioquia (Colombia) by Girard, E.

“…In 1987, 3 determinate growth materials, with good general behavior, were selected and are being multiplied for regional trials in different growing areas. …”
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Molecular characterization of Ralstonia solanacearum strains from Ethiopia and tracing potential source of bacterial wilt disease outbreak in seed potatoes by Abdurahman, A., Griffin, D., Elphinstone, J., Struik, P.C., Schulz, S., Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar, Sharma, K.

“…When a geographical map of the VNTR haplotypes was superimposed with the main cross-regional seed potato distribution pattern of the country, it became evident that the pathogen was being disseminated via latently infected seed from the Holeta-Jeldu area in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia. …”
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Five challenges to reconcile agricultural land use and forest ecosystem services in Southeast Asia by Carrasco, Luis Roman, Papworth, S.K., Reed, J.D., Symes, W.S., Ickowitz, A., Clements, T., Peh, K.S.H., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…These challenges include lack of accessible ES valuation techniques; limited knowledge of the links between forests, food security, and human well‐being; weak demand and political will for the integration of ES in economic activities and environmental regulation; a disconnect between decision makers and ES valuation; and lack of transparent discussion platforms where stakeholders can work toward consensus on negotiated land‐use management decisions. …”
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