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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Brazil's experience with bioenergy por Moreira, José Roberto

“…All Brazilian ethanol is produced from sugarcane through the fermentation of sugars contained in sugarcane juice. In the 2005/06 growing season, Brazil harvested about 400 million metric tons of sugarcane on 5.5 million hectares (all tons in this brief are metric tons). …”
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PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…This document synthesizes the findings contained in a series of reports prepared by IFPRI for PROGRESA between November 1998 and November 2000... …”
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A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania por Wobst, Peter

“…Because the analytical focus of the MERRISA project is agriculture and because agricultural production in Tanzania accounts for about half of GDP, the disaggregated Tanzania SAM contains 21 agricultural sectors out of 56 sectors in total. …”
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Assessing the impact of policy research and capacity building by IFPRI in Malawi por Ryan, James G.

“…The first describes the range of activities with which IFPRI was involved: the extensive IFPRI/Cornell food security and nutrition monitoring phase, primarily with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development of Malawi, from 1989 to 1992; the analytical and capacity-building phase from 1992 to 1996, when IFPRI staff were located at the Bunda College of Agriculture of the University of Malawi; and the collaborative research phase, which began in 1996, and is still underway. The second section contains the results of extensive interviews, which the author had with IFPRI’s partners and stakeholders to elicit their perceptions of the value, influence, and impact of IFPRI in Malawi. …”
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Impacts of considering climate variability on investment decisions in Ethiopia por Block, Paul J., Strzepek, Kenneth M., Rosegrant, Mark W., Diao, Xinshen

“…A dynamic climate module is integrated into an economy‐wide model containing a detailed zonal level agricultural structure. …”
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Postembryonic ventral nerve cord development and gonad migration in Steinernema carpocapsae por Bui, Hung Xuan, Schroeder, Nathan E.

“…Similar to C. elegans, S. carpocapsae hatches as a J1 with a VNC containing only a fraction of the neurons found in later developmental stages. …”
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The value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens: agri-environmental policies in a transitional economy por Birol, Ekin, Smale, Melinda, Gyovai, Agnes

“…Home gardens contribute to the preservation of rural settlements and cultural heritage, and they contain relatively high levels of several components of agricultural biodiversity. …”
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Nitrogen contribution of Leucaena/Rhizobium symbiosis to soil and a subsequent maize crop por Sanginga, N., Mulongoy, K., Ayanaba, A.

“…Maize in plots that received prunings from inoculated leucaena contained more N and grain yield was increased by 1.9 t.ha.−1. …”
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Influence of tillage methods and fertilizer application on chemical properties of worm castings in a tropical soil por Lal, R., De Vleeschauwer, D.

“…The effects of four rates of N (0, 40, 80 and 120 kg/ha) and three rates of P (0, 13 and 26 kg/ha) on chemical characteristics of soils and earthworm casts for no-tillage and conventionally disc plowed systems were investigated for a tropical Alfisol. Worm casts contained 2.3 to 1.5 times more organic matter, 1.8 to 1.2 times more nitrogen, 1.6 to 1.3 times more Bray-P, 3.2 to 2.1 times more exchangeable Ca2+, 3.8 to 2.5 times more exchangeable Mg2+, 3.1 to 2.2 times more exchangeable K+, and 1.4 to 1.2 times more exchangeable Na+ than the top 10 cm of the soil. …”
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Integrated pest management por Paparella, Antonio, Petsakos, Athanasios, Davis, Kristin E., Song, Chun

“…This happens through volatilization [9], spray drift [10], runoff from fields [11], and improper product management [12] such as improper disposal of empty containers or incorrect dosage [12]. The chemicals used in pesticides can persist in the environment, causing long-term harm to ecosystems [13]. …”
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Biocontrol por Paparella, Antonio, Petsakos, Athanasios, Davis, Kristin E., Song, Chun

“…Chemical pesticides can pollute ecosystems by contaminating soil, air, and freshwater through various pathways, including volatilization [1], spray drift [2], runoff from fields [3], and improper product management [4], like improper disposal of empty containers or incorrect dosage. This contamination can have detrimental effects on aquatic ecosystems [5], harm animals [6], and pose risks to human health through contaminated drinking water sources [7]. …”
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The Effects of a Secondary School Scholarship on School Progression and Youth Outcomes: Baseline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset contains baseline survey data from 2,141 youth and their households collected as part of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) titled The Effects of a Secondary School Scholarship on School Progression and Youth Outcomes in rural Ethiopia. …”
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Current issues in non-timber forest products research. Proceedings of the workshop research on NTFP. Hot Spring, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995 por Ruíz Pérez, M., Arnold, J.E.M.

“…This book contains a number of commissioned background papers presented at the workshop on ‘Research on Non-timber Forest Products’ (Hot Springs, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995). …”
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Forest policies in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe por Kowero, G.S., Kaoneka, A.S., Nhantumbo, I., Gondo, P., Jumbe, C.B.L.

“…Some of the efforts made to contain the situation include revising past policies to improve forestry development and conservation. …”
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Which way forward?: people, forests, and policymaking in Indonesia por Colfer, C.J.P., Resosudarmo, I.A.P.

“…Indonesia contains some of the world's most biodiverse and threatened forests. …”
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Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation por Ghazoul, J., Sheil, Douglas

“…Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation introduces and explores what rain forests are, how they arose, what they contain, how they function, and how humans use and impact them. …”
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Farming's climate-smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy por Pye-Smith, Charlie

“…Containing a wealth of up-to-date research and examples, this booklet highlights the ‘cause and effect’ relationship between agriculture and climate change. …”
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Supplementation of native grass hay with cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) hay, wilted leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) forage, wilted tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) forage or a whea... por Varvikko, T., Khalili, H., Crosse, S.

“…A mineral supplement containing bone meal and common salt was also fed daily. …”
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Expression of Trypanosoma congolense antigens in spodoptera frugiperdia insect cells por Urakawa, T., Eshita, Y., Fukuma, T., Hirumi, H., Hirumi, K., Majiwa, Phelix A.O.

“…From 1 liter of culture containing 109 spodoptera frugiperda cells infected with the recombinant baculoviruses, 10 and 30 mg of mVSG1 and mVSG2, respectively, were obtained. …”
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Cloning of the bovine interleukin-3-encoding cDNA por Mwangi, S.M., Logan-Henfrey, L.L., McInnes, C., Mertens, B.

“…An analysis of the cDNA sequence reveals that it contains a 432-nucleotide (nt) open reading frame which codes for 144 amino acids (aa). …”
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