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Poster on mobilizing agro-biodiversity and social networks to cope with adverse effects of climate and social changes: experiences from Kitui, Kenya. por Fujimura, R., Morimoto, Y., Maundu, P., Inoue, M., Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.

“…Paticular focus has been put on farmers activities such as crop production, animal keeping, hunting, and off-farm employment as a response to climatic and social changes. Wealth ranking method was performed in a forcus group disscussion as a preliminary process of the survey which identifed 12 representative families from the target community. …”
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Resource use and food self-sufficiency at farm scale within two agro-ecological zones of Rwanda por Bucagu, C., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Wijk, Mark T. van, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…The Simbi and Kageyo sectors were selected as the representatives of agro-ecological zones and two villages were selected within each sector. Wealth ranking, focus group discussions and formal survey techniques were used. …”
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Analysis of trends in extreme flood events and mitigation strategies in South East Asia por Amarnath, Giriraj, Pavelic, Paul, Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…This study is proceeding on two distinct fronts: the first focusses on ranking and prioritization of impacts across SEA, whilst the other examines an approach to flood monitoring that evaluates the feasibility of implementing possible mitigation strategies that still provide for the degree of flow variability needed to maintain ecosystems. …”
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Molecular, morphological and agronomic characterization of the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) germplasm collection from Mozambique: Genotype selection for drought prone regions por Maquia, I., Muocha, I., Naico, A., Martins, N., Gouveia, M., Andrade, I., Goulao, L.F., Ribeiro, A.I.

“…Lam) is one of the most important root crops in Mozambique, ranking in the 3rd position, after cassava and maize. …”
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Assessment of the parasitic burden in smallholder pig value chains and implications for public health in Uganda por Roesel, Kristina, Dione, Michel M., Fries, R., Baumann, M.P.O., Nöckler, K., Schares, G., Grace, Delia, Clausen, Peter-Henning

“…Thirty-five focus group discussions with more than 300 pig farmers showed that parasites are perceived to be a big production constraint with intestinal worms and sarcoptic mange ranking second and third after swine fever (Dione et al., 2014). …”
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Participatory variety selection of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) genotyes for adaptation to the semi-arid agro-ecology of northern Ghana por Sugri, I., Abdulai, M.S., Larbi, Asamoah, Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, Kusi, F., Agyare, R.Y.

“…Genotypes Sasilon, NOKH-1004, NB-55-Srivan and NOKH-1003 recorded the highest ranking among farmers during the PVS. High yielding and early maturing genotypes which are amendable to drying may show wide adoption rate due to the premium on dehydrated okra. …”
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Heterosis and combining ability of elite maize inbred lines under northern corn leaf blight disease prone environments of the mid-altitude tropics por Abera, W., Hussein, S., Derera, J., Worku, M., Laing, M.

“…The hybrids, parents and three standard check varieties were evaluated using an alpha lattice design with two replications across seven environments in the mid-altitude sub-humid agro-ecologies in Ethiopia. The new top ranking hybrids displayed up to 250 % high-parent heterosis and mid-parent heterosis for grain yield and up to −25 % high-parent mid-parent heterosis for NCLB reaction. …”
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Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies por Mwongera, Caroline, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Twyman, Jennifer, Läderach, Peter R.D., Ampaire, Edidah L., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Twomlow, Stephen, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…The CSA-RA combines common participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and rapid rural appraisal (RRA) tools into one methodology, that disaggregates the gender dimension, and includes resource mapping; climate calendars; historical calendars; cropping calendars; organization mapping; transect walks; key informant interviews; farmer interviews; and pairwise ranking matrix. The tool collects qualitative and quantitative data from various stakeholders (farmers, local leaders, researchers, local-level agricultural experts, private sector actors, donor organizations, and policy implementers), allowing expansive analysis, triangulation and validation. …”
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Value chain analysis of movable frame hive honey: The case of Ahferom Woreda, Tigray, Ethiopia por Mehari, A.

“…Similarly, the probability of choosing retailers channel was positively and significantly affected by age, beekeeping experience, distance to nearest market and market information compared to consumers’ outlet. The result of ranking index indicated that, honey production was constrained by prevalence of pests and predators, agro chemical application and lack of beekeeping tools and equipments. …”
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Replication Data for: Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies por Mwongera, Caroline, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Twyman, Jennifer, Läderach, Peter R.D., Ampaire, Edidah L., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Twomlow, Stephen, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…The CSA-RA combines common participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and rapid rural appraisal (RRA) tools into one methodology, that disaggregates the gender dimension, and includes resource mapping; climate calendars; historical calendars; cropping calendars; organization mapping; transect walks; key informant interviews; farmer interviews; and pairwise ranking matrix. The tool collects qualitative and quantitative data from various stakeholders (farmers, local leaders, researchers, local-level agricultural experts, private sector actors, donor organizations, and policy implementers), allowing expansive analysis, triangulation and validation. …”
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Towards an assessment of on-farm niches for improved forages in Sud-Kivu, DR Congo por Paul, Birthe K., Muhimuzi-Lwaboshi, Fabrice, Bacigale, Samy B., Wimba, Benjamin M.M., Chiuri, Wanjiku L., Amzati, Gaston S., Maass, Brigitte L.

“…Within the first six months, forage legumes adapted differently to the four sites with little differences among varieties, while forage grasses displayed higher variability in biomass production among varieties than among sites. Farmers’ ranking largely corresponded to herbage yield from the first cut, preferring Canavalia, Silverleaf desmodium and Napier French Cameroon. …”
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Variation in the straw traits of morphological fractions of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and implications for selecting for food-feed varieties por Alkhtib, A., Wamatu, Jane, Wegi, T., Rischkowsky, Barbara A.

“…The potential utility index (PUI) was employed to rank the varieties. The results demonstrated significant varietal variation in grain yield, straw yield and proportions of botanical fractions of straw. …”
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Replication Data for: Towards an assessment of on-farm niches for improved forages in Sud-Kivu, DR Congo por Paul, Birthe K., Muhimuzi-Lwaboshi, Fabrice, Bacigale, Samy B., Wimba, Benjamin M.M., Chiuri, Wanjiku L., Amzati, Gaston S., Maass, Brigitte L.

“…Within the first six months, forage legumes adapted differently to the four sites with little differences among varieties, while forage grasses displayed higher variability in biomass production among varieties than among sites. Farmers’ ranking largely corresponded to herbage yield from the first cut, preferring Canavalia, Silverleaf desmodium and Napier French Cameroon. …”
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Stability analysis of maize cultivars adapted to tropical environments using AMMI analysis por Oyekunle, M., Menkir, A., Mani, H., Olaoye, G., Usman, I.S., Ado, S.G., Abdullahi, U.S., Ahmed, H.O., Hassan, L.B., Abdulmalik, R.O., Abubakar, H.

“…ZA, BK, BG, LE and LA were found to be consistent in ranking the maize cultivars. However, Zaria, Birnin Kudu, and Ilorin were identified as the best test locations and could be used for selecting the superior maize cultivars. …”
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The accuracy of farmer-generated data in an agricultural citizen science methodology por Steinke, J., Etten, Jacob van, Mejia Zelan, P.

“…At five sites in Honduras, 35 farmers (women and men) participated in tricot experiments. They ranked three varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for Plant vigor, Plant architecture, Pest resistance, and Disease resistance. …”
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Evaluation of local maize (Zea mays L.) varieties from Burkina Faso as source of tolerance to drought por Olaoye, G., Menkir, A., Ajala, S.O., Jacob, S.

“…Three local varieties (Bondokuy-1, Dogona-1 and Douana-1) had grain yields that were either comparable to or higher than that of the hybrid check under moisture deficit. Relative ranking of genotypes for grain yield under well-watered condition was different from those under moisture deficiency. …”
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Evaluation of tropical maize hybrids under drought stress por Oyekale, K.O., Daniel, I.O., Kamara, A.Y., Adegbite, A.E., Ajala, M.O.

“…Based on number of rolled leaves, hybrid 2016-6 had the least value, ranking it the most tolerant, but based on multiple seedling traits including seedling height, total seedling biomass, leaf chlorophyll content and leaf stay green ability (SGA), hybrids 9033- 26, 0103-11 and 9022-13 were high performers. …”
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Maize yield determinants in farmer-managed trials in the Nigerian northern Guinea savanna por Carsky, R.J., Nokoe, S., Lagoke, S.T.O., Kim, S.

“…Farmers were almost unanimous in ranking the hybrid as least damaged by striga and highest yielding. …”
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Soil organic matter assessment in natural regrowth, Pueraria phaseoloides and Mucuna pruriens fallow por Koutika, L., Hauser, S., Henrot, J.

“…According to the differences in nutrient concentrations, soil acidity and the biological stability of SOM, the three fallow types ranked: Mucuna≥Pueraria>natural regrowth. However, in terms of POM quality the ranking was: Pueraria>Mucuna>natural regrowth.…”
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Farm-level and community aggregate economic impacts of adopting climate smart agricultural practices in three mega environments por Lan, Le, Sain, Gustavo, Czaplicki, Stanislaw, Guerten, Nora, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Grosjean, Godefroy, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…Regarding the aggregate profitability of CSA practices at regional scale, we found that under particular conditions, relevant factors of adoption matter to the adoption pattern and thereby affects the ranking. Such conditions include (i) high income inequality, (ii) large profitability gap of prioritized CSA practices, and (iii) large proportion of cost and benefit of the practices in the level of income. …”
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