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Ethiopia, Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the Ethiopian Highlands Dataset 1998-2000 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset contains aggregated data on financial, human, and institutional resources for agricultural research and development (R&D) at country, regional and global levels. …”
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PROMIS Mali Enrollment Data of the Longitudinal Study 2015, Child Level by International Food Policy Research Institute, AfricSanté

“…The dataset contains data collected at enrollment in the longitudinal study of the impact evaluation in Mali of the “Innovative Approaches for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition” (PROMIS) project, which integrated a preventive intervention package into Community Management for Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programming in Mali and Mali. …”
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Baseline Survey on Household and Farmer Organization in Bougouni and Koutiala by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

“…This data study contains data on the activities by concerned farmer organizations and focuses on household, farmers? …”
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On-Station Green Manure Cover Crop (GMCC) Intercropping Strategy Trial under Conservation Agriculture by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zambian Agriculture Research Institute

“…This study contains data originated from on-station trials that were conducted to evaluate the performance of green manure cover crops on crop productivity, and soil quality and residual effects. …”
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PROMIS Mali Baseline Data 2017, Child*Platform Level by International Food Policy Research Institute, AfricSanté

“…The dataset contains endline data at the child*Platform level of the impact evaluation in Mali of the “Innovative Approaches for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition” (PROMIS) project, which integrated a preventive intervention package into Community Management for Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programming in Mali and Mali. …”
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PROMIS Mali Follow-Up Data of the Longitudinal Study 2015-2017, Child*Month*Platform Level by International Food Policy Research Institute, AfricSanté

“…The dataset contains follow-up (longitudinal study) data at the Child*Month*Platform level of the impact evaluation in Mali of the “Innovative Approaches for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition” (PROMIS) project, which integrated a preventive intervention package into Community Management for Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programming in Mali and Mali. …”
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PROMIS Mali Follow-Up Data of the Longitudinal Study 2015-2017, Child*Month Level by International Food Policy Research Institute, AfricSanté

“…The dataset contains follow-up (longitudinal study) data at the child*Month level of the impact evaluation in Mali of the “Innovative Approaches for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition” (PROMIS) project, which integrated a preventive intervention package into Community Management for Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programming in Mali and Mali. …”
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Making African agriculture and food systems work for nutrition: What has been done, and what needs to be done? by Gillespie, Stuart, Dufour, Charlotte

“…The food and agriculture sector is pivotal not only to addressing undernutrition but also to containing and preventing the spread of diet-related noncommunicable disease. …”
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International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper by Ngaido, Tidiane, McCarthy, Nancy, Di Gregorio, Monica

“…This conference summary paper contains summaries of the CAPRi sponsored research findings on institutional options for rangeland, policy makers’ interventions and reactions as well as the synthesis of discussion groups. …”
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Replication Data for Persistence of Individual and Social Preferences in Rural Settings by International Food Policy Research Institute, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

“…This dataset contains the replication data files for the paper Persistence of Individual and Social Preferences in Rural Settings. …”
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Kekayaan hutan Asia: makanan, rempah-rempah, kerajinan tangan, dan resin by López, C., Shanley, P.

“…This book contains 20 case studies that explain how a selection of forest resources featuring forest plans, animals and fungi are harvested, processed and traded. …”
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Effects of dry season nutritional supplementation on growth, onset of puberty and subsequent fertility in Boran and Boran X Friesian heifers in Ethiopia by Tegegne, Azage, Entwistle, K.W., Mukasa-Mugerwa, E.

“…Presents results of a trial undertaken in Ethiopia to determine the effect of dry season supplementary feeding on heifers' growth rate & fertility at puberty, hence at 8 months of age, 43 Boran and 46 Boran X Friesian crossbred heifers were randomly divided to either receive a supplementary feed containing 16 percent crude protein during the dry season or to serve as controls. …”
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Crop wild relatives—undervalued, underutilized and under threat? by Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Schmidt, M., Armstrong, S.J., Barazani, O., Engels, J., Hadas R, Hammer K, Kell, S.P., Kang D, Khoshbakht K, Li Y, Long C, Lu B-R, Ma K, Nguyen VT, Qiu L, Ge S, Wei W, Zhang, Z., Maxted, Nigel

“…Biodiversity is at risk from multiple threats, including climate change, and the genetic diversity contained within plant genetic resources, particularly of species that are wild relatives of our crops, faces similar threats but is essential to our ability to respond to the new stresses in the agricultural environment resulting from climate change. …”
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Flow duration curve for evaluating ecosystem flow regulating functions in the Zambezi River Basin [Africa]. by Xueliang Cai, McCartney, Matthew P., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…Reference conditions were then established using nearby sub-watersheds that contain few/no wetlands/forests. By transferring reference flows to the target sites and comparing the FDCs for with and without wetland/forest conditions we then assess the hydrological impacts on flood attenuation and base flow maintenance. …”
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Atlas of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production in Africa by Wortmann, Charles S., Kirkby, Roger A., Eledu, Charles A., Allen, David J.

“…The new atlas will be digital and available online soon. The new edition contains information from bean producing areas in Eastern, Southern and Western Africa and represents a total of 22 countries. …”
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Bacterial brown blotch, a disease of rice in tropical America by Lozano, J.C., Victoria Kafure, JI, Velasco, Ana Cecilia, Sang Won Ahn

“…The pathogen grows on media containing different sources of carbohydrates. Colonies on Wakomoto and Yoshii medium are round, entire, and dark yellow, easily distinguishable from those of Xanthomonas campestris pv. oryzae on the same medium. …”
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A Bayesian network framework for project cost, benefit and risk analysis with an agricultural development case study by Yet, Barbaros, Constantinou, Anthony, Fenton, Norman, Neil, Martin, Luedeling, Eike, Shepherd, Keith D.

“…The framework uses hybrid and dynamic BNs containing both discrete and continuous variables over multiple time stages. …”
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A novel use of high density SNP assays to optimize choice of different crossbred dairy cattle genotypes in smallholder systems in East Africa by Ojango, Julie M.K., Marete, A., Mujibi, F.D.N., Rao, E.J.O., Poole, Elizabeth J., Rege, J.E.O., Gondro, C., Weerasinghe, W.M.S.P., Gibson, John P., Okeyo Mwai, Ally

“…In poor production environments, lower grade crosses (containing <60% exotic dairy alleles) had the same yield as high grade crosses. …”
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Replication Data for: Smallholder farmers’ attitudes and determinants of adaptation to climate risks in East Africa by Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Twyman, Jennifer, Eitzinger, Anton, Pérez, Juan G., Mwongera, Caroline, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…Data were collected via personal interviews by trained enumerators using pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaires. The variables contained in the dataset come from a baseline survey that was conducted by the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) in 2010 and a follow up survey by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in 2012. …”
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Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture & Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences by Bayala, Jules, Zougmoré, Robert B., Dayamba, Sidzabda Djibril, Olivier, Alain

“…Tis Tematic Series on “Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences” contains seven papers presented by researchers from four West African countries based on participatory action research conducted since 2012 in the region. …”
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