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Rice videos, with a similar initiative: IITA video viewing club by Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…WARDA’s rice videos are available in more than 20 African languages, and are seen on national television in Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria and Uganda. …”
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50 x 2 = 30 000 = the SPORE equation by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Fifty editions in two languages have rolled from the printing presses and the subscription list has reached 30,000. …”
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Digital ethnography? Our experiences in the use of SenseMaker for understanding gendered climate vulnerabilities amongst marginalized agrarian communities by Joshi, Deepa, Panagiotou, A., Bisht, Meera, Udalagama, Upandha, Schindler, Alexandra

“…However, we also noted that the application of the tool is influenced by the prior exposure to technology (digital devices) of both the enumerators and researched groups and requires significant resources when implemented in contexts where there is a need to translate the data from local dialects and languages to more dominant languages (English). Most importantly, perceptions, positionalities, and biases of researchers can significantly impact the design of the tool’s signification framework, reiterating the fact that researcher bias persists regardless of technological innovations in research methodology.…”
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Building Agency by Co-creating Knowledge with Farmers: Enabling and Empowering for Demand-driven interventions (BACKFEED) by Fisher, Monica, Marenya, Paswel

“…Viamo’s IVR in local languages enables reaching and hearing from farmers with access to basic phones and encouraging participation of those who might otherwise be excluded due to limited literacy (ICT, reading and writing ability, national languages). …”
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District-Level Training and Dissemination of Seasonal Rainfall Forecast by Umer, Yakob, Wapamesa, A, Makungwe, M., Mwase, R., Chongo, T.

“…Dissemination activities at camp and community levels demonstrated farmers’ ability to understand and apply forecast information when communicated through participatory and localized methods, including the use of vernacular languages and visual aids. Moreover, in partnership with National Agricultural Information Services (NAIS) over 5000 farmers will be reached through broadcast media (radio and television) and social media, in all the 7 official local languages. …”
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Mönsterspråk för löparvänlig stad : ett första steg by Moberg, Zara

“…Formatet, skapat för verket A pattern language av Alexander, Ishikawa och Silverstein (1977), analyseras och anpassas för att ge större tydlighet och transparens. …”

Advice on beans: Farmerline's Mergdata farm-advice service in Ghana ICTs by Sakyi, Patrick, Abdul-Fatawu, Mohammed

“…Farmerline provides users with farm advice, weather forecasts, market information messages on mobile phones in local languages. The same software allows organizations to conduct surveys of farms and farmers. …”
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A selective review of research on Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Col.: Bostrichidae) with an annotated and updated bibliography by Markham, R.H., Wright, V.F., Ríos Ibarra, R.M.

“…A review is presented of worldwide research on the stored products pest Prostephanus truncatus, with an emphasis on recent (post-1986) and previously neglected work, particularly that published in languages other than English. Topics reviewed include distribution, pest status, biology, ecology, monitoring and control. …”
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DSpace CSV metadata quality checker by Orth, Alan S.

“…The implementation is essentially a pipeline of checks and fixes that begins with splitting multi-value fields on the standard DSpace separator, trimming leading/trailing whitespace, and then proceeding to more specialized cases like ISSNs, ISBNs, languages, unnecessary Unicode, AGROVOC terms, etc.…”
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Radio Communication for the Dissemination of Improved Livestock Production Technologies in Ethiopia by Zeleke, Muluken, Wamatu, Jane, Abiso, Tesfaye, Haile, Aynalem

“…Leveraging the wide reach of mass communication via radio, the project aimed to broadcast programs promoting improved livestock production technologies in five local languages across culturally diverse regions in Central Ethiopia, thus ensuring improved comprehension and outreach to rural and marginalized populations who may not speak or understand dominant languages. …”
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Opportunities and challenges of indigenous biotic weather forecasting among the Borena herders of southern Ethiopia by Ayal, Desalegn Y., Desta, S., Gebru, G., Kinyangi, James, Recha, John W.M., Radeny, Maren A.O.

“…Results reveal that herders made short term weather forecasts using intestinal readings, and observed changes in plant and animal body languages. The study shows the extent how public confidence in the accuracy of indigenous weather forecasting skills has been gradually eroded overtime due to faulty forecasts. …”
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Radio-based agricultural extension promotes uptake of entrepreneurship in sheep fattening: Evidence from Central Ethiopia by Wamatu, Jane, Ekule, Muluken, Abiso, Tesfaye, Belayneh, Tesfa, Rete, Cherinet, Haile, Aynalem

“…In collaboration with FM radio stations, 3.6 million farmers across 11 local languages were reached in Central and Southwestern Ethiopia. …”
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Animal traction for agricultural development by Starkey, P.H., Faye, A.

“…In the second part, there are edited papers prepared for the workshop, 30 papers in English and 29 in French with abstracts in both languages. The papers are grouped in terms of West African overviews, economic issues, implement development and country experiences. …”
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Bibliografía sobre el plátano (Musa AAB, ABB) by International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain

“…The documents were published as articles in specialized journals, books, theses, annual reports, research reports, papers presented at scientific meetings and state-of-the-art reports in various languages including Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. …”
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Speech recognition, machine translation, and corpus analysis for identifying farmer demands and targeting digital extension by Jones-Garcia, Eliot

“…This report reviews several approaches to overcoming technical constraints and then presents a cutting-edge approach that utilizes innovations in unsupervised learning to deliver highly accurate speech recognition and machine translation in a diverse set of languages.…”
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Big data for smallholder farmers: The case of MUIIS Uganda by Pedrick, Clare

“…To address these challenges, an innovative initiative is showcasing how ICTs can be used to capture satellite-based information on a wide range of agricultural indicators, packaging it into tailor-made messages for farmers in local languages.…”
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Learning to share knowledge for global agricultural progress by Staiger Rivas, Simone, Galiè, Alessandra, Hack, Bernhard, Jorge, M.A.B., Meadu, Vanessa, Tateossian, F., Salokhe, G., White, N.

“…Web 2.0 tools combined with face-to-face methods offer new opportunities for better knowledge sharing across disciplines, languages and borders. This article comprises an overview and case studies – the personal accounts of six participants and one facilitator of a 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Sharing, sponsored by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. …”
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Millions reached by a radio campaign on climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Philippines by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…A set of 156 expert interviews and 165 scripts in local languages were prepared and distributed to 153 rural broadcasters. …”
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Future Harvest Programme for Musa in Africa by Ortíz, R., Frison, Emile A., Sharrock, S.

“…Prinred materials should be produced in simple pictorial forms in local languages. A Market Information Systems website/network for use by all stakeholders should be developed. …”
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Bananas and food security= Les productions bananieres: un enjeu economique majeur pour la securite alimentaire: International symposium, Douala, Cameroon, 10-14 November 1998 by Picq, C., Fouré, E., Frison, Emile A.

“…Papers are published in their original language (English or French) and include abstracts in both languages. …”
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