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Enabling rural innovation in Africa : An approach for integrating farmer participatory research and market orientation for building the assets of rural poor by Sanginga, Pascal C., Best, R., Chitsike, C., Delve, Robert J., Kaaria, Susan K., Kirkby, Roger A.

“…Evaluation of market opportunities stimulates farmers’ experimentation to reduce risks, access new technologies, and improve the productivity and competitiveness of the selected enterprises. Lessons learned suggest that building and sustaining quality partnerships between research and development organizations, government, private agribusiness sector; and building necessary amount of human and social capital over a certain period of time are critical for achieving success in small- scale agroenterprise development. …”
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Strengthening regional capacity for climate services in Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27 October 2015. by Mungai C, Atakos, Vivian, Hansen, James

“…The workshop brought together 17 participants including scientists and technical experts to learn from and build on examples of good practice in farmer-focused climate information and advisory services, and to share elements of good practice in food security contingency planning. …”
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Planning and Review Days on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Rollout, Balaka District, Malawi, 26-27 October 2015 by Kafasalire A, Nyirongo D

“…Apart from this, intermediaries were able to learn from each other as they shared their experiences during the trainings. …”
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Improving on-farm water management by introducing wetting front detectors to small scale irrigators in Ethiopia by Schmitter, Petra S., Haileslassie, Amare, Dessalegn, Yigsaw, Chali, A., Tilahun, S., Langan, Simon J., Barron, Jennie

“…In both sites, farmers positively evaluated the scheduling tool, acknowledging that they learned to save water without negatively impacting crop productivity. …”
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Beekeeping development using value chain approach in Fogera district: experiences from IPMS project interventions by Gebey, T., Berhe, Kahsay, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…From this intervention we have learned that the introduction of improved beekeeping technology and associated practices coupled with strengthening the involvement of other stakeholders along the value chain will enhance productivities of beekeeping business. …”
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Exchanging and managing in-vitro elite germplasm to combat cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) in Eastern and Southern Africa by Tumwegamire, Silver, Kanju, E., Legg, James P., Shirima, R., Kombo, S., Mkamilo, G.S., Mtunda, K., Sichalwe, K., Kulembeka, H.P., Ndyetabura, I., Saleh, H., Kawuki, R.S., Alicai, Titus, Adiga, G., Benesi, I.R.M., Mhone, A., Zacarias, A., Matsimbe, S.F., Munga, T., Ateka, E., Navangi, L., Maruthi, M.N., Mwatuni, F., Ngundo, G., Mwangangi, M., Mbugua, E., Ndunguru, J., Rajabu, C., Mark, D.

“…This paper documents the experiences and lessons learned from the process. Thirty-one clones (25 elite, two standard and four national) were submitted by the five breeding programs to the Natural Resources Institute and Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services for virus cleaning and indexing. …”
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture by Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Birch, James, Thornton, Philip K., Meza, Laura, Sunga, Ishmael, Bong, Bui Ba, Rabbinge, Rudy, Reddy, Matthew, Dinesh, Dhanush, Korner, Jana, Martínez Barón, Deissy, Millan, Alberto, Hansen, James, Huyer, Sophia, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…It brings together academic research, examples of proven adaptive technologies and practices, and lessons learned from practitioners including government, farming communities and the private sector. …”
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Conservación de biodiversidad vegetal en bosques bajo forestería análoga en Quepos, Costa Rica by Jiménez Salgado, José U.

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Sistemas agroforestales en áreas de recarga de agua para consumo humano en la cuenca alta del río Bobo, Colombia. 1. Sistemas agroforestales con potencial hidroecológico y socioeco... by Vela Enríquez, María E., Jiménez Otárola, Francisco

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Contribution of agricultural land uses to bird conservation: a case study of ecosystem service provisioning by Martinez Salinas, María A.

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Ur askan i Västmanland by Jackson, Josefin

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Gröna anläggningar på betongbjälklag by Lange, Hanna, Wennberg, Fredrik

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The welfare of bottlenose dolphins and killer whales in captivity by Lundin, Lisa

“…Animals that are self-aware can learn that different outcomes can be produced or influenced by their behavior and that they have some control over certain parts of their environment. …”
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Training dogs to indicate synthetic pheromones from Plagionotus detritus, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae to detect living beetles by Apelqvist, Matilda

“…All dogs managed to indicate the synthetic pheromone from P. detritus and learned to discriminate the decoys. Three of the dogs indicated the living male beetle in at least one out of three trials against synthetic decoys, and one dog indicated the beetle in three out of three trials. …”
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Ideas and tradition behind Chinese and Western landscape design by Pang, Junying

“…This thesis is concerned with the interaction between two very different ways of approaching landscape from an architectural perspective, and how we today can learn from both approaches.…”
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Vertikal trädgård i kallt klimat : en undersökning av ståndort, växtval och vinteraspekt by Rolff, Anna

Människans inverkan på hundar – och hur det kan påverka arbetet inom djursjukvården by Jonsson, Madelene

“…This relationship has been going on for several years and it is reasonable to believe that the close contact with humans has affected the canine behavior. Canines have learned to read and understand the human body language. …”

Hästens (Equus Caballus) ätbeteende då den för första gången får sin högiva beredd i ett slow-feednät by Ivarsson, Sofia

“…Even if horses have a tendency to get frustrated for a while it will not affect the horse's welfare negatively. They will learn to eat from Slow-feed nets after a few days. …”

Skillnaden mellan galopphästars och dressyrhästars muskelfysiologi by Petäjistö, Katrine

El Proyecto Resilientes: su implementación y sus experiencias by Barth, Iris Dagmar, Ramilo, Diego Nicolas, Solarte, Antonio, Ocariz, María Paula, Battista, Daniela Edurne, Lopez, Dardo Ruben, Barreiro, Florencia, Gornitzky, Cora Miriam, Tallarico, Gabriela Adriana, Schonwald Kalichman, Janine, Aguilera, María Paula, Romero, Yolanda Elizabeth, Lagorio, Paula Agustina

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