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Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large-scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana by Schoneveld, George C., German, L., Nutakor, E.

“…These plantations are being developed or expanded in the aftermath of the 2006 National Energy Policy and managed by companies with supply connections to biodiesel industry. …”
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Prediction of forage intake using in vitro gas production methods: Comparison of multiphase fermentation kinetics measured in an automated gas test, and combined gas volume and sub... by Blümmel, Michael, Cone, J.W., Gelder, A.H. van, Nshalai, I., Umunna, N.N., Makkar, H.P.S., Becker, K.

“…Combined gas volume and true degradability measurements in vitro were used to calculate a partitioning factor (PF), being the ratio of mg substrate degraded to ml of gas produced. …”
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Effectiveness of modular training at Farmers’ Training Center: The case of Fogera District, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia by Mekuria, Wolde

“…Such trainings are offered in the Farmers’ Training Centers, which are being functional at Peasant Association level throughout Ethiopia. …”
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Physiological and molecular characterization of drought responses and identification of candidate tolerance genes in cassava by Turyagyenda, L.F., Kizito, Elizabeth Balyejusa, Ferguson, Morag E., Baguma, Yona K., Agaba, Morris, Harvey, Jagger J.W., Osiru, D.S.O.

“…Ten genes that have previously been biologically validated as conferring or being associated with drought tolerance in other plant species were confirmed as being drought responsive in cassava. …”
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Analysis of trends in extreme flood events and mitigation strategies in South East Asia by Amarnath, Giriraj, Pavelic, Paul, Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…The nature of those investments and the associated cost-benefits are being revealed. Secondly, a new approach is being developed for flood monitoring from time-series MODIS data acquired from 2000 to 2012. …”
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Exclusive breastfeeding and its effect on growth of Malawian infants: results from a cross-sectional study by Kuchenbecker, J., Jordan, I., Reinbott, A., Herrmann, J., Jeremias, T., Kennedy, G., Muehlhoff, E., Mtimuni, B., Krawinkel, M.B.

“…The ANCOVA confirmed the association between exclusive breastfeeding and LAZ and WAZ: exclusively breastfed infants had a higher mean (SE) LAZ (−1·13, 0·12) and WAZ (−0·41, 0·13) than infants not being exclusively breastfed (−1·59, 0·11, and −0·97, 0·11, respectively). …”
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Genetic transformatin of potato with a triple R gene construct to confer resistance to late blight. by Mwathi, M., Roman, M., Orbegozo, Jeanette P., Rivera, C., Forbes, G., Ghislain, M.

“…To date, we have produced more than 100 transgenic events which are currently being characterized. The pathogen population will be characterized concurrently to assess the expected durability of this resistance.…”
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Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa by Silvestri, Silvia, Douxchamps, Sabine, Kristjanson, Patricia M., Förch, Wiebke, Radeny, Maren A.O., Mutie, Ianetta, Quirós, Carlos F., Herrero, Mario, Ndungu, Anthony, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Mango, Joash, Claessens, Lieven, Rufino, Mariana C.

“…Different livelihood portfolios are being pursued by male versus female-headed households, with female-headed households less likely to grow high-value crops and more likely to have a less diversified crop portfolio. …”
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Integrated assessment of groundwater use for improving livelihoods in the dry zone of Myanmar by Pavelic, Paul, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Johnston, Robyn M., McCartney, Matthew P., Sotoukee, Touleelor, Balasubramanya, Soumya, Suhardiman, Diana, Lacombe, Guillaume, Douangsavanh, Somphasith, Joffre, Olivier M., Latt, K., Zan, A.K., Thein, K., Myint, A., Cho, C., Htut, Y.T.

“…In the Dry Zone of Myanmar, improved access to water is widely acknowledged as being vital for livelihood enhancement and the general well-being of around 10 million people, most of whom depend on agriculture. …”
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Is local best? Examining the evidence for local adaptation in trees and its scale by Boshier, D., Broadhurst, L., Cornelius, Jonathan P., Gallo, L., Koskela, Jaarko, Loo, J., Petrokofsky, G., St Clair, B.

“…With limited information about the extent and scale of adaptive variation in native trees, discussion about suitable seed sources often emphasises “local” in a very narrow sense or within political boundaries, rather than being based on sound evidence of the scale over which adaptation occurs. …”
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Setting up agricultural water management interventions - learning from successful case studies in the Volta and Limpopo river basins by Bruin, A. de, Pateman, R., Barron, Jennie, Balima, M., Ouédraogo, I., Dapola, E.D., Fosu, M., Annor, F.O., Magombeyi, Manuel Simba, Onema, J.M.K.

“…A systematic text analysis of 55 case study reports showed that these 33 interventions have had a positive impact on the well-being of beneficiaries and there was a sustained and wider uptake of the AWM technologies or approaches introduced. …”
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Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa? by Bardosh, K.L., Scoones, J.C., Grace, Delia, Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Jones, K.E., Balogh, K. de, Waltner-Toews, D., Bett, Bernard K., Welburn, S.C., Mumford, E., Dzingirai, V.

“…This article is part of the themed issue ‘One Health for a changing world: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being’.…”
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Gender, climate change, and resilient food systems: Lessons from strategic adaptation by smallholder farmers in Cameroon by Nkengla-Asi, Lilian, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Kirscht, Holger, Apfelbacher, Scarlett, Hanna, Rachid, Tegbaru, Amare

“…Vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to being chronically poor, women farmers are unequally and more negatively affected by climate change and seasonal changes than male farmers. …”
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Impacts assessments without true baselines: assessing the relative effects of training on the performance of water user associations in southern Tajikistan by Balasubramanya, Soumya, Price, Joseph P.G., Horbulyk, Theodore M.

“…The first measures were taken within 12–18 months of the new institutions being functional and the second measures were taken 24 months after the first. …”
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Assessing changes in the agricultural systems of selected sites in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam: A Participatory GIS approach by Parker, Li, Thi Than, Nguyen

“…However, this is not uniform across all the villages, with Padal undergoing the most substantial increase in agricultural production, with forest and trees being replaced by cassava and cashew. In Laos we can see an increase in the production of maize, particularly in Pa Khom village. …”
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Plum pox virus and sharka: a model potyvirus and a major disease by Garcia, Juan Antonio, Glasa, Miroslav, Cambra, Mariano, Candresse, Thierry

“…Sources of resistance: A few natural sources of resistance to PPV have been found so far in Prunus species, which are being used in classical breeding programmes. Different genetic engineering approaches are being used to generate resistance to PPV, and a transgenic plum, ‘HoneySweet’, transformed with the viral CP gene, has demonstrated high resistance to PPV in field tests in several countries and has obtained regulatory approval in the USA.…”
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Postharvest Behavior of New Mandarin Cultivars Obtained in the IVIA by Sdiri, Sawsen, Navarro, Pilar, Cuenca, José, Pardo, José, Salvador, Alejandra

“…In the Citrus Center and Vegetable Production (IVIA) another breeding program based on budwood irradiation is being conducted in search of new seedless cultivars. …”
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Monitoring strategies for quality control of agricultural products using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy: A review by Cortés, Victoria, Blasco, José, Aleixos, Nuria, Cubero, Sergio, Talens, Pau

“…Recent demands, together with the advances being made in the technology and a reduction in the price of equipment, makes VIS-NIR technology an analytical alternative for continuous real-time food quality controls, which will become predominant in the next few years.…”
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Genome-wide analysis of AGO, DCL and RDR gene families reveals RNA-directed DNA methylation is involved in fruit abscission in Citrus sinensis by Sabbione, Agustin, Daurelio, Lucas D., Vegetti, Abelardo, Talón, Manuel, Tadeo, Francisco R., Dotto, Marcela

“…Background: Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of processes in plants, from organ development to both biotic and abiotic stress response. Being master regulators in genetic networks, their biogenesis and action is a fundamental aspect to characterize in order to understand plant growth and development. …”
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Vilda pollinatörer i ett svenskt skogsjordbrukssystem by Conrad, Lisa