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Små ingrepp med stora steg mot förändring by From Björk, Madelaine, Lindqvist, Jenny

“…The proposal therefore focuses on the ability of small interventions, which with time and civic engagement will drive the development process and eventually cause major changes without significant economic risks, giving people the tools and influence to generate the development at their own pace. …”
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Clinical and subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle and buffaloes in Bihar, India by Hardenberg, Frida

“…Mastitis is known to result in substantial production and economic losses which can be crucial for small-scale dairy farmers. …”
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Estudio de modelación de manejos alternativos en sistemas de cría vacuna de la Depresión de Laprida by Berger, Horacio

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Preferencias de Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood 1919 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) por diferentes estructuras de la planta del algodón (Gossypium hirsutum L.) en el valle cálido del Magdale... by Ebratt, Everth, Rodríguez, Andrés, Monje, Buenaventura, Varón, Edgar, Brochero, Helena, Goldarazena, Arturo

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Technical Report: Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health and Nutrition by Duante, Charmaine A., Austria, Rovea Ernazelle G., Borigas, John Michael E., Acuin, Cecilia S.

“…Its geographic location and economic situation makes the Philippines highlyvulnerable to impacts of climate change and extreme weather events that cause considerable disruptions to food systems, affecting food security, nutrition and health especially of the most vulnerable groups. …”
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Scenario-Guided Review of the Ghana Livestock Policy by Botchway, Vincent Ansah, Sam, Kingsley Odum, Karbo, Naaminong, Essegbey, George Owusu, Nutsukpo, Delali, Agyemang, Kingsley, Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T.

“…This leads to an extensive overview of plausible futures, articulating complex interactions between socio-economic factors, political developments, climate change, and the global context. …”
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Mapping cropland fallow areas in Myanmar to scale up sustainable intensification of pulse crops in the farming system by Gumma, Murali K., Thenkabail, Prasad S., Kumara Charyulu, Deevi, Mohammed, I. A., Teluguntla, P., Oliphant, A., Xiong, J., Aye, T., Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…These areas may be used to grow short-duration pulses, which are economically important and nutritionally rich, and constitute the diets of millions of people as well as provide an important source of livestock feed throughout Asia. …”
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IPGRI in sub-Saharan Africa: Regional report - SSA 1999-2000 by International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The genetic base of these crops is, however, being seriously eroded, largely as a result of their replacement in the farming systems, climate change, socio-economic factors, natural disasters and armed conflict. …”
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Positive association between Brucella spp. seroprevalences in livestock and humans from a cross-sectional study in Garissa and Tana River Counties, Kenya by Kairu-Wanyoike, S., Nyamwaya, D., Wainaina, M., Lindahl, Johanna F., Ontiri, E., Bukachi, S., Njeru, I., Karanja, J., Sang, R., Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K.

“…Background Brucella spp. is a zoonotic bacterial agent of high public health and socio-economic importance. It infects many species of animals including wildlife, and people may get exposed through direct contact with an infected animal or consumption of raw or undercooked animal products. …”
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Scaling land and water technologies in Tanzania: Opportunities, challenges and policy implications by Mwongera, Caroline, Odhiambo Ageyo, Collins, Kimani, Peter

“…There are ongoing efforts designed to halt land degradation in the Western Usambara which have arisen from pressure on land resources mainly caused by demographic growth, deforestation and the abandoning of the traditional regenerative land use and farming systems. Socio-cultural and economic factors such as education level, age, gender, and land tenure, marital status and income earnings of smallholder farmers are factors considered important in the adoption of land and water management practices. …”
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Sustainable floodplains: linking e-flows to floodplain management, ecosystems, and livelihoods in the Sahel of North Africa by O'Brien, G.C., Dickens, Chris, Baker, C., Stassen, R., Weert, F. van

“…The flooding of the Delta is the engine of the socio-economic development as well as its ecological integrity. …”
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From buffet to best-fits: co-identifying and prioritizing best-bet CSA practices for targeting and scaling and Central Highlands of Ethiopia by Tamene, Lulseged D., Abera, Wuletawu, Admassu, Zenebe

“…Climate-smart interventions need also consider local social differences, particularly gender and economic inequalities, to ensure equal benefits for men, women, and marginalized groups and to avoid exacerbating existing discriminations as well as be effective and sustainable. …”
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Genetic diversity in cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] accessions collected from Togo by Gbedevi, K.M.

“…Despite its importance in the nutrition and economic life of the people, bulk of the varieties grown in Togo are landraces. …”
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Relatives, neighbors, or friends: Information exchanges among irrigators on new on-farm water management tools by Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Yimam, Seid, Arega, Tiruwork, Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Schmitter, P. M. V.

“…CONTEXT: On-farm water application in Ethiopia, as in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is dominated by furrow irrigation, which resulted in inefficient water uses and related economic and environmental problems. A recent project introduced two on-farm water management tools, called wetting front detectors and Chameleon sensors, to some farmers in Koga irrigation scheme and facilitated for other farmers in the quaternary canal, who did not receive the technology, to learn from farmers who installed the tools on their plots. …”
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The potential for game meat edible by-products to contribute to food security in South Africa and risk assessment by Heeb, A., McCrindle, C.M.E., Zárate, Anne Valle, Ramrajh, S., Grace, Delia, Siegmund-Schultze, M.

“…Casual game hunters tended to be of higher socio-economic levels and several had other occupations. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed circRNAs miRNAs and mRNAs during the challenge of coccidiosis by Chen, Xiaolan, Wang, Zhijun, Chen, Yangfeng, Akinci, I., Luo, Wei, Xu, Yibin, Jebessa, Endashaw, Blake, D., Sparks, N., Hanotte, Olivier H., Nie, Qinghua

“…Avian coccidiosis is a common enzootic disease caused by infection of Eimeria species parasites. It causes huge economic losses in the global poultry industry. Current control using anticoccidial drugs or vaccination is limited due to drug resistance and the relatively high cost of vaccines. …”
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Adapted conservation agriculture practices can increase energy productivity and lower yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions in coastal Bangladesh by Krupnik, Timothy J., Hossain, Mohammed Khaled, Timsina, Jagadish, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Yasmin, Samina, Shahjahan, Md., Hossain, Farhad, Kurishi, Alanuzzaman, Miah, Azahar Al, Saidur Rahman, B.M., McDonald, Andrew J.

“…While our data suggest that both CA and SAT can result in a range of positive agronomic, economic, and environmental outcomes compared to FP or CT, post-trial surveys and discussions with farmers revealed a strong practical aversion to use of the full suite of CA practices and preference for adapted practices due to logistical constraints in negotiating the hire of laborers for unpuddled manual transplanting.…”
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Can agroecological transition of intensive cereal system of Indo-Gangetic plains deliver sustainable and nutritious food? by Gora, M.K., Kumar, Satish, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Kakraliya, S., Choudhary, Madhu, Dhaka, A.K., Jat, Raj Kumar, Kakraliya, Manish, Sharma, Parbodh Chander, Jat, Mangi Lal

“…Soybean based system (Sc6) was economically more efficient with respect to nutrients than other systems. …”
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Some biological parameters of Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and its natural enemy Acerophagus papayae Noyes et Schauff (Hymenopt... by Nyamador, S.W., Gnomou, Y.E., Amevoin, K., Ajuonu, O., Goergen, Georg E., Glitho, I.A.

“…The papaya mealybug Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara De Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is an invasive insect species attacking diverse host plants causing enormous damage to crops including those of very high economic importance. Biological control of this mealybug is achieved through the field release of its natural enemy, Acerophagus papayae Noyes and Schauff (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). …”
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Effect of genotype and environment on the productive and survivability traits of lambs under a community-based management system by Abebe, A., Berhane, G., Gizaw, Solomon, Getachew, T., Haile, Aynalem

“…However, the study recommends further research to validate the crossbreeding program (considering the influential production environment, research on supplementation for lambs in the dry-season, adjusting the mating season, and the economic feasibility of crossbreeding are suggested).…”
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