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Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics by Espitia, Paula A., Hernández, Luis Miguel, Burkart, Stefan, Palmer, Neil, Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés

“…We also highlight the potential of tropical forage-based diets over those using organic agricultural or urban by-product substrates, due to their versatility, low cost, and lower risk of microbial and chemical hazards. …”
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Deep learning-based estimation of rice yield using RGB image by Tanaka, Y, Watanabe, T., Katsura, K., Tsujimoto, Y., Takai, T., Tanaka, T., Kawamura, K., Saito, H., Homma, K., Mairoua, S., Ahouanton, K., Ibrahim, A., Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu, Semwal, V., Corredor, E., El-Namaky, R., Manigbas,N., Quilang, E.J.P., Iwahashi, Y., Nakajima, K., Takeuchi, E., Saito, Kazuki

“…Our work suggests that this low-cost, hands-on, and rapid approach can provide a breakthrough solution to assess the impact of productivity-enhancing interventions and identify fields where these are needed to sustainably increase crop production…”
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Near-infrared spectroscopy to predict provitamin A carotenoids content in maize by Rosales Nolasco, Aldo, Crossa, José, Cuevas, Jaime, Cabrera-Soto, Luisa María, Dhliwayo, Thanda, Ndhlela, Thokozile, Palacios Rojas, Natalia

“…These results demonstrate that Bayesian and MPLS regression of BCX on NIRS data can be used to predict BCX content, the current focus on PVA enhancement, and thus offers opportunities for high-throughput phenotyping at a low cost, especially in the early stages of PVA maize breeding pipeline when many genotypes must be screened.…”
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Biofortification - A Sustainable Agricultural Strategy for Reducing Micronutrient Malnutrition in the Global South by Bouis, Howarth E., Welch, Ross M.

“…Initial investments in agricultural research at a central location can generate high recurrent benefits at low cost as adapted biofortified cultivars become widely available in countries across time at low recurrent costs. …”
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A European perspective on opportunities and demands for field-based crop phenotyping by Morisse, Merlijn, Wells, Darren M., Millet, Emilie J., Lillemo, Morten, Fahrner, Sven, Cellini, Francesco, Lootens, Peter, Müller, Onno, Herrera, Juan M., Bentley, Alison R., Janni, Michela

“…Plant phenotyping methods have advanced significantly, spanning low-cost hand-held devices to large-scale satellite imaging. …”
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Comparison between Acid Digestion (ICP-OES) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometry for Zinc Concentration Determination in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Sultana, Sharmin, Khatun, Husne Ara, Faruquee, Muhiuddin, Islam, Md Mizan Ul, Tonny, Hosna Jannat, Islam, Md Rafiqul

“…This work demonstrates the potential of XRF as a reliable and low-cost as well as an alternative technique to ICP-OES methods for determining Zn content in rice as it allows the analysis of a greater number of samples in a short period at a considerably low price.…”
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Natural regeneration of severely degraded terrestrial arid ecosystems needs more than just removing the cause of the degradation by Louhaichi, Mounir, Gamoun, Mouldi, AL Hashash, Nouf, Al-Ameer, Fatima, ALRashedi, Dala, Redha, Amal, Alkandari, Fatemah, Niane, Abdoul Aziz

“…When degradation has not reached the point of irreversibility, natural restoration through resting is one of the best low-cost restoration techniques. This study evaluated the effect of natural restoration on vegetation cover and species richness in the desert rangelands of Kuwait. …”
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Clarity tubes as effective citizen science tools for monitoring wastewater treatment works and rivers by Graham, Mark, Pattinson, Nicholas B., Lepheana, Ayanda T., Taylor, Jim

“…Overall, these findings demonstrate the usefulness of clarity tubes as low-cost, accessible, and easy-to-use citizen science tools for high spatial and temporal resolution water quality monitoring, not only in rivers in Southern Africa, but in WWTW effluent for estimating compliance, with strong global relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”
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Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana by Magnan, Nicholas, Hoffmann, Vivian, Garrido, Gissele, Kanyam, Faniel Akwasi, Opoku, Nelson

“…In this paper we examine how lifting these barriers affects Ghanaian groundnut farmers’ adoption of low-tech, low-cost post-harvest practices that reduce aflatoxin contamination. …”
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Economic impact of climate change and climate change adaptation strategies for fisheries sector in Solomon Islands: Implication for food security by Dey, Madan M., Gosh, Kamal, Valmonte-Santos, Rowena, Rosegrant, Mark W., Chen, Oai Li

“…If cost and topographic conditions permit, low-cost inshore FADs are expected to be a good mechanism for augmenting domestic supplies of tuna and similar species in Solomon Islands.…”
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Network innovations: Building the next generation of agricultural scientists in Africa by Moock, Joyce Lewinger

“…These models, while different in their composition, offer key principles and approaches of networks that are scalable and have the potential to be sustained.2 Each model has a base secretariat or management group within a host institution that provides coordination and technical assistance, and promotes the use of low-cost (and in some cases, more advanced) information technologies. …”
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Iron deficiency and schooling attainment in Peru by Chong, Alberto, Cohen, Isabelle, Field, Erica, Nakasone, Eduardo, Torero, Máximo

“…Our findings also demonstrate that, with low-cost outreach efforts in schools, supplementation programs offered through a public clinic can be both affordable and effective in reducing rates of adolescent IDA. …”
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Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model? by Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen, Cossar, Frances, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Jimah, Kipo, Aboagye, Patrick Ohene

“…With such a low operational scale, it is essential to consider various options for introducing low-cost, small tractors suited to the current farming scale in the country. …”
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Demand for high-value secondary crops in developing countries: the case of potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan by Bouis, Howarth E., Scott, Gregory J.

“…In this paper, a relatively new, low-cost procedure, based on demand for food characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. …”
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An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects by Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla, Lapenu, Cecile

“…The method was developed in response to demands by donors and development practitioners for a low-cost evaluation instrument that could be used as a regular operational tool for assessing the poverty outreach of a development project or institution. …”
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Making market information services work better for the poor in Uganda by Ferris, Shaun, Engoru, Patrick, Kaganzi, Elly

“…To assist farmers, a new generation of low cost market information services is being developed that takes advantage of information and communication technologies such as FM radios, mobile phones, and internet-based communications systems, to enable farmers to monitor and adjust to dynamic market conditions in local, national, and export markets. …”
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Solar dryer: Laboratory experiment and initial evaluation of the solar-dried tomatoes and peppers by Salaudeen, Kamaldeen Oladimeji, Yamauchi, Futoshi, Liu, Yanyan

“…Rethinking Food Market and Plant Health Initiatives of CGIAR aim to introduce an energy-efficient, low-cost, and hygienic technology, that is, a solar drying system with support from the Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute’s (NSPRI) to dry vegetable crops in smallholder farmers communities in Kano State. …”
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Adapting genotyping-by-sequencing for rice F2 populations by Furuta, Tomoyuki, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Jena, Kshirod K., Doi, Kazuyuki, Reuscher, Stefan

“…By using the comparatively low-cost MiSeq platform, we show that the GBS method is flexible and cost-effective, even for smaller laboratories.…”
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SPIR II Group Problem Management Plus (gPM+) Baseline Survey in Tigray, Ethiopia by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This study's objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of a low-cost psychotherapy intervention, group Problem Management Plus (gPM+), in improving mental health, child development, and related outcomes among rural Ethiopian households. gPM+ was delivered in separate arms by government-employed Health Extension Workers (HEWs) or stipended Local Facilitators (LFs) engaged by an NGO. …”
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Clarity tubes as effective citizen science tools for monitoring wastewater treatment works and rivers by Graham, P. M., Pattinson, N. B., Lepheana, A. T., Taylor, R. J.

“…Overall, these findings demonstrate the usefulness of clarity tubes as low-cost, accessible, and easy-to-use citizen science tools for high spatial and temporal resolution water quality monitoring, not only in rivers in Southern Africa but also in WWTW effluent for estimating compliance, with strong global relevance to the sustainable development goals (SDGs).…”
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