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How can the Data Revolution contribute to climate action in smallholder agriculture? by Etten, Jacob van, Steinke, Jonathan, Wijk, Mark T. van

“…We discuss five datarelated concepts and explore how they are linked with agricultural climate action: lean data, crowdsourcing, big data, ubiquitous computing, and information design. …”
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Citizen’s science approach to climate smart and nutrition sensitive seed value chains for food and nutrition security in Uganda and Ethiopia by Recha, Tobias, Mohammed, Jemal, Otieno, Gloria Atieno

“…This project ‘Citizen’s science approach to climate smart and nutrition sensitive seed value chains for food and nutrition security in Uganda and Ethiopia’ aims to improve farmers’ adaptation to climate change and enhance food and nutrition security by increasing the availability of quality, diverse and adapted seeds within local communities through participatory varietal evaluation using a crowdsourcing approach and innovative seed value chains.…”
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Most Malawian maize and soybean farmers sell below official minimum farmgate prices by Baulch, Bob, Ochieng, Dennis O.

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Global land cover uncovered by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…With the ambition to improve the quality of global land cover maps, a team based at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) started the pioneering Geo- Wiki project, a geospatial Wikipedia that uses the growing body of satellite imagery, Google Earth as a platform and crowdsourcing as the mechanism for collecting and verifying data.…”
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Launching, maintaining, expanding and disseminating crowd-sourced information in drylands: KAZNET manual by Lepariyo, Watson, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Baraza, Meshack, Galgallo, Diba, Gobu, Wako, Godana, Nura, Banerjee, Rupsha R.

“…KAZNET (kazi kwa net), translated from Kiswahili to mean “working within a network”, is an information crowdsourcing initiative and a decision support tool designed with the goal to address climate and non-climate shocks by informing resilience programming, targeted intervention, early warning, and early action. …”
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Digital Revolution in Farmer Fields: VarScout Unveils Kenya's Varietal Landscape – The Case of Potato by Gatto, M., Borus, D., Malit, J., Kihiu, E., Barker, I., Echessa, L., Soto-Torres, J., Meyer, A.

“…This paper reports on data collected through VarScout, a digital crowdsourcing tool, to monitor varietal adoption, turnover, seed use, and yields. …”
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A new pathway for livelihood improvement and adaptation to climate change: growing vegetables in Hoima, Uganda. Final technical report. by Mwanguhya, Joshua, Kiiza, Annet, Kabakoyo, Elizabeth, Turyahumura, Alex, Recha, Tobias, Vernooy, Ronnie

“…The crowdsourcing vegetable pilot project was implemented in Hoima, Uganda, from March 2019 to the beginning of 2021, by East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with the World Vegetable Centre and the National Agricultural Research Organisation of Uganda and notably the Bulindi Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute in Hoima. …”
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Sensory evaluation of finger millet and bean products in Hoima Uganda. Report of field work conducted 6-12 September 2019 by Mubiru, David, Recha, Tobias, Otieno, Gloria Atieno

“…The activity was conducted as a follow up to previous crowdsourcing trials and participatory varietal testing of 34 bean and 43 finger millet varieties by 300 farmers in Hoima, between 2017 and 2019, that identified seven bean and seven finger millet varieties selected by farmers as having most of the attributes needed for adaptation to climate change, including faster maturity, drought resistance, pest and disease resistance and high yields. …”
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Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul, Salama, Yousra, Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelaziz, Fatma, Zaccari, Claudia, Akramkhanov, Akmal, Menza, Gianpiero, Anarbekov, Oyture

“…We then create a typology of digital innovations based on seven broad service categorizations: weather and climate; agricultural finance; energy and early warning systems; data and crowdsourcing; market information and market place; extension and advisory information; and supply chain coordination. …”
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Reducing uncertainty in nitrogen budgets for African livestock systems by Rufino, Mariana C., Brandt, P., Herrero, Mario, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus

“…Joint efforts are needed for spatial data collection of livestock data, crowdsourcing appears to be a promising option. The focus of the assessment of N budgets must go beyond croplands to include livestock and crop–livestock flows. …”
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Participatory crop improvement for farm productivity and climate resilience: Training manual by Mengistu, Dejene K., Terefe, Hailu, Nigir, Bogale, Tilahun, Mulugeta, Kidane, Yosef G., Fadda, Carlo

“…We detail an integrated framework that synergistically combines three powerful participatory methods: Participatory Variety Selection (PVS), Evolutionary Plant Breeding (EPB), and Crowdsourcing (Tricot), supported by the digital platform ClimMob. …”
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The accuracy of farmer-generated data in an agricultural citizen science methodology by Steinke, J., Etten, Jacob van, Mejia Zelan, P.

“…Novel large-N participatory trials, building on recent advances in citizen science and crowdsourcing methodologies, involve large numbers of participants and little researcher supervision. …”
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Putting gender on the map: Methods for mapping gendered farm management systems in Sub-Saharan Africa by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., van Koppen, Barbara, Behrman, Julia A., Karelina, Zhenya, Akamandisa, Vincent M., Hope, Lesley, Wielgosz, Ben

“…An open online survey, or crowdsourcing, of the information tapped into a wide range of expertise, providing difficult-to-obtain widespread coverage, but had inconsistent data quality. …”
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Innovative participatory crop improvement approaches for enhanced farm productivity, climate resilience, and efficient local seed systems by Mengistu, Dejene Kassahun, Terefe, Hailu, Hailemariam, Bogale Nigir, Tilahun, Mulugeta, Kidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat, Fadda, Carlo

“…A cornerstone of the study was the deployment of crowdsourcing trials using the TRICOT (triadic comparison of technologies) method, engaging farmers as citizen scientists to evaluate pre-selected varieties under real farmers’ management conditions. …”
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Mapping global cropland and field size by Fritz, Steffen, See, Linda, McCallum, Ian, You, Liangzhi, Bun A, Moltchanova E, Duerauer, M, Albrecht, F., Schill C, Perger C, Havlík, Petr, Mosnier, Aline, Thornton, Philip K., Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Herrero, Mario, Becker-Reshef, Inbal, Justice, Chris, Hansen, Matthew, Gong, Peng, Abdel Aziz, Sheta, Ciprián, Arsenio, Cumani, Renato, Cecchi, G., Conchedda, Giulia, Ferreira S, Gómez, A., Haffani M, Kayitakire, Francois, Malanding, J, Mueller R, Newby T, Nonguierma A, Olusegun A, Ortner S, Rajak R, Rocha J, Schepaschenko, Dmitry, Schepaschenko, M., Terekhov A, Tiangwa, A., Vancutsem, C., Vintrou E, Wenbin W, Velde, Marijn van der, Dunwoody, A., Kraxner, Florian, Obersteiner, Michael

“…The different products are ranked at the national level using crowdsourced data from Geo-Wiki to create a map that reflects the likelihood of cropland. …”
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Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production by Fritz, Steffen, See, Linda, van der Velde, Marijn, Nalepa, Rachel A., Perger, Christoph, Schill, Christian, McCallum, Ian, Schepaschenko, Dimitry, Kraxner, Florian, Cai, Ximing, Zhang, Xiao, Ortner, Simone, Hazarika, Rubul, Cipriani, Anna, Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo, Rabia, Ahmed H., Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel, Vakolyuk, Mar`yana, Singha, Kuleswar, Beget, Maria Eugenia, Erasmi, Stefan, Albrecht, Franziska, Shaw, Brian, Obersteiner, Michael

“…Samples from these maps were selected and crowdsourcing of Google Earth images was used to determine the type of land cover and the degree of human impact. …”
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Inspire Challenge Award: Using IVR to connect farmers to market by CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

“…Implemented a crowdsourced IVR marketing service to increase linkages between individuals in the value chain. …”
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Participatory process training over Skype for Ethiopian enumerators in Amhara and Tigray regions by Osgood, Daniel, Diro, Rahel

“…The Financial Instruments Services Team at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University developed a prototype database for and collected extensive crowdsourced farmer drought experience data using participatory processes and Interactive Voice Response in 10 countries in Africa and Asia (Ethiopia, Senegal, The Gambia, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar, Pakistan, Bangladesh). …”
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Bioversity International celebrating 45 years of agrobiodiversity research by Bioversity International

“…It is the result of a crowdsourced approach with short contributions written by past and present staff members, Directors Generals, Board Chairs, partners and farmers. …”
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Citizen science in hydrological monitoring and ecosystem services management: State of the art and future prospects by Njue, N., Stenfert Kroese, J., Gräf, J., Jacobs, S.R., Weeser, B., Breuer, Lutz, Rufino, Mariana C.

“…Citizen science in hydrological research has recently gained popularity and crowdsourced monitoring is a promising cost-effective approach for data collection. …”
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