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A meta-analysis of rates of return to agricultural R & D: ex pede Herculem? by Alston, Julian M., Wyatt, T. J., Pardey, Philip G., Marra, Michele C., Chan-Kang, Connie

“…This study represents the first attempt to take a comprehensive look at all the available evidence on rates of return to investments in agricultural R&D since 1953, and the only attempt to do so in a formal statistical fashion. This report has compiled and documented the literature in ways that make it more accessible and more useful to other researchers and policymakers, as well as others interested in the evidence. …”
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Water allocation policies for the Dong Nai River Basin: an integrated perspective by Ringler, Claudia, Vu Huy, Nguyen, Msangi, Siwa

“…Recent water sector reforms and increased scarcity and vulnerability of water resources, combined with declining public funding available for large scale infrastructure investment in the sector, have led to a greater awareness by the Government of Vietnam for the need to analyze water resource allocation and use in an integrated fashion, at the basin scale, and from a perspective of economic efficiency. …”
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Virtual water: a helpful perspective, but not a sufficient policy criterion by Wichelns, Dennis

“…Trading strategies based on the virtual water perspective are not consistent with the economic concept of comparative advantage. In a similar fashion, distinguishing between the "blue water? and "green water? …”
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Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects? by Bellon, M.R., Gotor, Elisabetta, Caracciolo, Francesco

“…The factors and relationships implicated in attaining conservation and livelihood results are complex, so that a conceptual scheme that brings them together in a simplified but coherent fashion can be extremely useful for the scientists, donors, policy-makers and practitioners concerned. …”
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Inventario de recursos, área del Programa de Diversificación de Turrialba. Inventario de recursos, cantón de Turrialba by Tunarosa M, V.

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GeMo: a web-based platform for the visualization and curation of genome ancestry mosaics by Summo, Marilyne, Comte, Aurore, Martin, Guillaume, Perelle, Pierrick, Weitz, Eric M., Droc, Gaëtan, Rouard, Mathieu

“…Here, we present GeMo, a novel interactive web-based and user-oriented interface to visualize in a linear-based fashion results of in silico chromosome painting. …”
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Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor: When intent meets political economy realities by Mogues, Tewodaj, Erman, Alvina

“…We term these “responsive institutional arrangements” (RIAs).We scrutinize the evidence in the literature on the functioning of each RIA against a framework that considers how countries’ broader governance environment shape governments’ incentives.The article concludes that RIAs can channel resources based on the preferences of the poor, but mainly if citizens have political space, and governments the incentives, to allocate resources in a pro‐poor fashion. Otherwise, RIAs often become tools of control for elites. …”
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Combining ability and heterosis analysis for yield traits in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) by Singh, Vikrant, Krishna, Ram, Singh, Sanjay, Vikram, Prashant

“…In order to realize the combining ability and heterosis of wheat, 21 hybrids were synthesised in a 7 × 7 diallel fashion excluding reciprocals. Analyses of combining ability and heterosis over mid parent (MP) as well as economic parent (HD 2733) were undertaken for yield and its component traits. …”
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Phase I: sustainable integrated management of whitefly as pests and vectors of plant viruses in the tropics: a system-wide IPM initiative project by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…One of the principle obstacles to achieving IPM solutions has been the isolated and uncoordinated fashion in which researchers have been working. The Whitefly IPM Project proposes to organize a network for researchers in the tropics who are working on whiteflies and whitefly-transmitted viruses; promote the standardization of research methodologies among researchers; and facilitate the collecting of critical, missing data in order to adapt, develop and implement effective IPM packages for whitefly and virus management…”
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Spatial continuity in tree diameter distribution by Berhe, Leakemariam

“…The variograms and cross validation study of the Weibull parameter estimates, cdf and number of stems as attributes of tree dbh distribution seem to be very indicative to suggest that tree diameter distribution exhibits spatial continuity in the same fashion to regionalized variable.…”
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A farm-level perspective of the policy challenges for export diversification in Malawi: Example of the oilseeds and maize sectors by Johnson, Michael E., Edelman, Brent, Kazembe, Cynthia

“…A principal motivation for undertaking the study at the microeconomic level is to determine, in a theoretically consistent fashion, the type of policy and economic environment under which farmers begin to shift more of their scarce resources to oilseed production.The study aims to provide recommendations to a growing demand among policy makers and development partners for a greater diversification of exports and crop production systems of the majority smallholder farmers in Malawi. …”
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Mapping QTL for multiple traits using Bayesian statistics by Xu, Chenwu, Wang, Xuefeng, Li, Zhikang, Xu, Shizhong

“…Some traits may vary continuously and others may vary in a discrete fashion. Although mapping QTLs jointly for multiple traits is more efficient than mapping QTLs separately for individual traits, the latter is still commonly practised in QTL mapping. …”
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How Fair is Workfare? Gender, Public Works, and Employment in Rural Ethiopia by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…FFW operates in a similar fashion with other labor markets in Ethiopia where female participation is low. …”
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Data for: Identifying genetically redundant accessions in the globally largest cassava collection by Carvajal-Yepes, Monica, Ospina Colorado, Jessica Alejandra, Aranzales Rondon, Ericson, Velez Tobon, Monica Lorena, Correa Abondano, Miguel Angel, Barbosa Torres, Norma Constanza, Wenzl, Peter

“…SilicoDArT Format: SilicoDArTs are scored in a binary fashion, representing genetically 'dominant' markers, with '1' indicating the presence and '0' indicating the absence of a restriction fragment with the marker sequence in the genomic representation of the sample. …”
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Bovine gamma delta T cell responses to the intracellular protozoan parasite Theileria parva by Daubenberger, C.A., Taracha, E.L.N., Gaidulis, L., Davis, W.C., McKeever, Declan J.

“…These results suggest that bovine gamma delta T cells are activated by and lyse T. parva-infected cells by recognizing conserved parasite-induced or parasite-derived antigens in an MHC-unrestricted fashion.…”
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Accurate Differentiation of Green Beans of Arabica and Robusta Coffee Using Nanofluidic Array of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers by Zhang, Dapeng, Vega, Fernando E., Infante, Francisco, Solano Sánchez, William, Johnson, Elizabeth S., Meinhardt, Lyndel W.

“…The SNP marker panel and the genotyping protocol are sufficiently robust to detect admixture of green coffee in a high-throughput fashion. Moreover, the multilocus SNP approach can differentiate every single bean within Robusta and 55% of Arabica samples. …”
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The genetics of glioma : and the use of dogs as model for human glioma by Börjesson, Vanja

“…Glioma develops spontaneously in dogs in a similar fashion as in humans and is proposed as a model in glioma research. …”

The Effect of forest law enforcement governance and trade license on competitiveness of Indonesian wooden furniture in the European Union market by Lubis, M., Suharjo, B., Nurmalina, R., Purnomo, H.

“…However, there are other factors at play such as relatively new nature of FLEGT-VPA and FLEGT licensing, transition period that every major policy process such FLEGT Licenses experience, level of implementation the EUTR as an incentive towards FLEGT-VPA, timber price, quality, availability, technical performance, logistics and fashion trends, especially for furniture retailers. …”
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Supplementation with groundnut haulms for sheep fattening in the West African Sahel by Ayantunde, Augustine A., Delfosse, P., Fernández Rivera, S., Gerard, Bruno G., Dan-Gomma, A.

“…In traditional sheep fattening,feeds are always provided ad-hoc and in an unregulated fashion, which is rather wasteful. As a preliminary study to establish the optimal feeding levels of groundnut haulms for profitable sheep fattening, a feeding trial was conducted for 70 days with four levels of groundnut haulms (0, 150, 300 and 450 g/day) and a basal diet of bush hay. …”
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The payoffs to agricultural biotechnology: an assessment of the evidence by Marra, Michele C., Pardey, Philip G., Alston, Julian M.

“…The economic impacts of these technologies have, thus far, been estimated in a piecemeal fashion. The purpose of this study was to collect and characterize the economic evidence available to date, organize it, and determine if any general implications can be drawn from it. …”
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