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Inbreeding enhances field resistance to cassava brown streak viruses by Tadeo, K., Vincent, K., Yona, B., Robert, K., Ferguson, Morag E.

“…The S1 progenies generated were evaluated for two seasons (seedling and clonal evaluation trial) in a high CBSD pressure area. Promising clones were re-evaluated to confirm their CBSD reaction status. …”
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Water policy in Canada by Horbulyk, Theodore M.

“…Especially when water resources are under pressure from competing demands, or when water quality is threatened, it is logical to question whether the available water resources are being used in the best way possible. …”
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation by Nicol, Alan, Odinga, W.

“…With a focus on more comprehensively managing the country’s critical water endowment amidst growing pressure on the resource, bilateral technical assistance and financial support played a large part in backstopping these national efforts. …”
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Organisational Baseline Study: Overview report for My Loi CSV, Vietnam (VN02) by Duong, Minh Tuan, Hai, Le Van, Simelton, Elisabeth

“…The region has four but increasingly variable seasons, increase in frequency and magnitude of storms and tropical low-pressure systems, increase in intensity of dry and hot westerly wind (Laos wind). …”
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Evaluation of 5 hybrid yams for dry season yam production in lowland areas by Ikeorgu, J., Asiedu, Robert

“…Farmers that have farmlands that are hydromorphic during the dry season or have irrigation facilities, are encouraged to utilize such lands for off-season yams production so as to ensure year round fresh yam supplies in the market in view of the current pressure on cassava as a staple.…”
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Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories by Evans, K., Flores, S., Larson, A.M., Marchena, R., Müller, P., Pikitle, A.

“…Women face significant obstacles to effective participation in forest decision-making in the community: weak community organization, pressure by spouses, difficulty organizing among themselves and informal sanctions. …”
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Impact of biogas interventions on forest biomass and regeneration in southern India by Agarwala, M., Goshal, S., Verchot, Louis V., Martius, C., Ahuja, R., DeFries, Ruth S.

“…Programs to provide alternative energy sources such as biogas improve indoor air quality and potentially reduce pressure on forests from fuelwood collection. This study tests whether biogas intervention is associated with higher forest biomass and forest regeneration in degraded forests in Chikkaballapur district in Southern India. …”
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REDD+ as Result-based Aid: General Lessons and Bilateral Agreements of Norway by Angelsen, A.

“…This paper reviews the primary challenges in designing and implementing a system of RBA, namely, donor spending pressure, performance criteria, reference levels, risk sharing, and funding credibility. …”
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Recent developments in cowpea cropping systems research by Blade, S., Shetty, S., Terao, T., Singh, B.

“…Owing to increases in population and land pressure, it is crucial that improved systems of production provide a range of alternatives to increase yield, while maintaining the natural resource base. …”
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Pioneer woody species in Leucaena leucocephala and senna siamea hedgerows in a forest ecoysystem in southern Nigeria by Akinnifesi, F.K., Mutsaers, H.J.W., Tijani-Eniola, H.

“…However; traditional farm lands are undergoing rapid deterioration as a result of increasing population pressure, with the resulting practice of continuous cultivation with little or no fallow. …”
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Effects of vegetative mulches on growth of indigenous crops in the Kingdom of Tonga by Manu, V., Whitbread, Anthony M., Blair, G.

“…As in many areas of the developing world, intensification of agriculture in Tonga, and other Pacific Islands, has put increased pressure on the soil resource. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of mulch on the growth and yield of two important food and fibre crops. …”
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Understanding the consequences of changes in the production frontiers for roots, tubers and bananas by Petsakos, Athanasios, Prager, Steven D., Gonzalez Rodriguez, Carlos Eduardo, Gama, Arthur Chibwana, Sulser, Timothy B., Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Hareau, Guy

“…These will affect demand and production patterns and increase pressure on farming systems. Foresight results presented in this paper show that the importance of RT&B crops for food security will likely increase by 2050 despite these challenges. …”
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Low genetic variation between isolates of Citrus leaf blotch virus from different host species and of different geographical origins by Vives, María C., Rubio, Luis, Galipienso, Luis, Navarro, Luis, Moreno, Pedro, Guerri, José

“…The ratio between nonsynonymous and synonymous substitutions was the lowest found in a plant virus, indicating a strong negative selective pressure in both genomic regions.…”
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Screening Capsicum germplasm for resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) by Cebolla-Cornejo, Jaime, Soler, Salvador, Gomar, B., Soria, D. M., Nuez, Fernando

“…The resistance was maintained when the accession was inoculated with TSWV using a high pressure of viruliferous thrips. These results open new possibilities in the development of a durable resistance to TSWV in pepper.…”
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Potassium Sorbate Residue Levels and Persistence in Citrus Fruit as Detected by a Simple Colorimetric Method by Montesinos-Herrero, Clara, Smilanick, Joseph L., Hurley, J. Michael, Palou, Lluís

“…The influence of high-pressure water washing (HPWW) on potassium sorbate residues in potassium-sorbate-treated fruit was determined. …”
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The economics of cocoa-fruit agroforests in Southern Cameroon by Gockowski, J, Dury, S

“…However, soil fertility and weed pressure are technical problems that must be overcome if cocoa agroforests are to be established in the Chromolaena odorata thickets that characterize the short fallow land uses in West Africa. …”
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Prediction model for sap flow in cacao trees under different radiation intensities in the western Colombian Amazon. by Suárez, Juan Carlos, Casanoves, Fernando, Ngo Bieng, Marie Ange, Melgarejo, Luz Marina, Di Rienzo, Julio A., Armas, Cristina

“…We characterized microclimatic variables that may have an efect on diurnal patterns of sap fow: air relative humidity, air temperature, photosynthetically active radiation and vapor pressure defcit. Overall, our model predicted the diferences between cacao Vs in the three diferent AFs, with cacao plants with dense Musaceae plantation and high mean diurnal incident radiation (HPAR) displaying the highest diferences compared to the other agroforestry arrangements. …”
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Improving working conditions at farm level : the role for food retailer Ahold Delhaize by Bergacker, Jorieke

“…For instance, buyers of commodity products usually aim for the highest-short term profit by putting price pressure on suppliers. Hence, the findings indicate how retailers need to optimize their procurement context to support buying associates in achieving sustainable development.…”

Hur bedöms vallens avkastning? by Aspång, Hanna

“…It takes in average two minutes to weight one load of green plant material. The pressure of the soil in grassland farming is also an important question. …”
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Mekaniskt snytbaggeskydd by Jonsnäs, Thomas

“…Three factors were compared regarding planting quality including i) pressure around the plant, ii) the depth the plant ended up in, iii) plant angle. …”
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