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Árboles frutales en los campos agrícolas de las fincas indígenas de Talamanca, Costa Rica by Burgos, Angela, Armero, Heiber, Somarriba, Eduardo

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Eucalypt plantations by Turnbull, J.W.

“…This paper reviews the historical development of the use of the eucalypt over 200 years, from its curiosity status in the botanical gardens of Europe to its extensive use as a fuelwood for the wood-burning locomotives of the national railway systems, and then to its more recent use as a major source of biomass for paper pulp, fiberboard, industrial carcoal, and fuelwood. …”
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Geneflow 2009 by Bioversity International

“…Past issues of Geneflow have focused on women and biodiversity, crop wild relatives, on-farm conservation and botanic gardens.…”
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Establishing a Climate Smart Village in Southern Shan, Myanmar: The Case of Taungkhamauk Village, Nyaung Shwe Township by Manilay, Alessandro A., Thant, Phyu Sin, Myae, Chan, Barbon, Wilson John, Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…The Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) options adopted by participating households and evaluated by this study included yield enhancement for upland rice and corn, planting fruit trees in farms and homesteads, and vegetable gardening as well as livestock and poultry raising in homesteads. …”
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Smallholder farming and crop variety choice: Maize variety choice in Zambia by De Groote, Hugo, Gitonga, Zachary, Smale, Melinda, Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Kasuta, Earnest, Birol, Ekin, Sonder, Kai

“…Various strategies have been developed to combat vitamin A deficiency, including vitamin A supplementation (in the form of capsules), food fortification, and the promotion of household vegetable gardens. In Zambia, where more than half of preschool children are at risk for vitamin A deficiency (Micronutrient Initiative 2009), biannual capsules are provided to children in combination with vaccinations, and sugar is fortified with retinol, the pure form of vitamin A (Fiedler et al. 2013). …”
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Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe by Drimie, Scott, Gandure, Sithabiso

“…The PRP targeted poor households by boosting their food production through promoting community gardens, conservation agriculture, seed multiplication, improving access to water, and providing care to the chronically ill.…”
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The phytosanitary situation of cypress in Spain and the new prospect by Tuset, Juan J.

“…(some trees of the latter one growing in the Atlantic coast) are also present, generally in gardens as ornamental trees. The small areas of expansion of the cypress together with the common low environmental moisture clearly condition the pathological problems, generally limiting their importance (TUSET, 1979). …”
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The Vietnamese double-vault composting latrine: Fertilizer source or health risk? by Phuc Pham Duc, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Vu Van Tu, Zurbrugg, C., Zinsstag, Jakob

“…Around one-fifth of households in Vietnam use a double-vault latrine that collects the faeces and allows them to decompose before spreading the resulting compost on their gardens and fields.What are the benefits and risks of doing this? …”
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Agroecological Living Landscapes: A Context Assessment in Murewa, Zimbabwe by Chimonyo, Vimbayi G. P., Sibanda, Telma, Choruma, Dennis J., Falconnier, Gatien N., Baudron, Fréderic

“…Many farmers participate in market gardening and produce tomatoes, onions, butternut, and cabbages. …”
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Bringing nutritional security and women empowerment through Nutri-SMART Villages by Singh, S.R.K., Raut, A.A., Srivastava, Varsha, Burman, R.R., Gautam, U.S.

“…KVKs conducted field demonstrations on nutrition gardens, food fortification and bio-fortified crop varieties; and organized capacity building and awareness programs for farm women and aganbadi workers to enhance nutrition literacy. …”
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Sociocultural factors influencing the production and consumption of fruits and vegetables in Boukoumbé in Northern Benin. by Bankole, Malikath, Bodjrenou, Sam, Houndolo, Melina, Termote, Celine, Chadare, Flora, Amoussa Hounkpatin, Waliou

“…Qualitative approach especially the snowball method has proceeded to select the key informants constituted of market gardeners and institutions involved in agriculture in Boukombé. …”
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Offentliga platser i en urbaniserad värld med exempel från den snabbt växande staden Nairobi by Erséus, Lisa

“…Projekten som studeras är: Dandora Transformation League; Jeevanjee Gardens; Kibera Productive Public Spaces och Transformation of the GoDown. …”

Annual report 2020: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In 2020, PIM findings contributed to seed policies in Nepal and Uganda, Malawi’s extension strategy and approval of insect-resistant cotton, a nationwide program aimed at improving the effectiveness of public service delivery in Uganda, social protection programs in Egypt, and school gardens for better nutrition in Papua New Guinea. …”
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Global Plant Health Assessment: Impact of plant health on the ecosystem services rendered by plant systems in world's ecoregions by Singh, Manjari

“…Specific results for a limited number of Plant Systems (rice, potato, peri‐urban horticulture and household gardens, softwood forests, and oak forests) has been described in more detail, allowing to highlight key findings of the results. …”
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Multiple Use Water Services To Address Real Life Water Needs by van Koppen, Barbara

“…Poor communities in rural and peri-urban areas diversify their livelihoods by farming in backyards and gardens, keeping livestock and processing crops or running micro enterprises such as small restaurant or brick making. …”
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HER+ Sustainable Land Management Trial in Ethiopia: Endline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The HER+ Sustainable Land Management Study is a randomized controlled trial evaluating a bundled intervention that provides training and inputs (including 4-6 fruit tree seedlings, vegetable seeds, and tools) to encourage extremely poor rural Ethiopian households to adopt three complementary sustainable land management (SLM) practices: fruit tree planting, composting, and home gardening. The baseline survey was conducted in May-June 2023, followed by the intervention, with the endline study completed in May-June 2024. …”
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HER+ Sustainable Land Management Trial in Ethiopia: Baseline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The HER+ Sustainable Land Management Study is a randomized controlled trial evaluating a bundled intervention that provides training and inputs (including 4-6 fruit tree seedlings, vegetable seeds, and tools) to encourage extremely poor rural Ethiopian households to adopt three complementary sustainable land management (SLM) practices: fruit tree planting, composting, and home gardening. The baseline survey was conducted in May-June 2023, followed by the intervention, with the endline study completed in May-June 2024. …”
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Potential for Increasing Agricultural Water Productivity by Quandzie, Stephen

“…Key  findings:   The  research  revealed  the  following  key  things  about  agriculture  and  agricultural  water;  that   dry   season   gardening   is   considered   by   the   indigenes   as   one   of   the   means   by   which   poverty   and  transitional  (seasonal)  hunger  can  be  reduced.   …”
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Integrating interventions for shoreline farming and fishing into dam operation [Abstract only]. by Reis, J., Culver, T.B., Lacombe, Guillaume, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…The interventions investigated are 1) a lower water level during the cultivation period in order to expose the shoreline gardens and 2) constructed wetlands adjacent and connected to the reservoir to enhance fisheries. …”
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