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Drought resistance indices for screening of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) genotypes by Beyene, Z.K., Mekbib, Firew, Abebe, T., Asfaw, A.

“…Hence, to determine the most desirable drought tolerant clones rank sum of indices, correlation, and bi-plot display of the principal component analysis was employed. …”
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Efficiency of food-based attractants for monitoring tephritid fruit flies diversity and abundance in mango systems across three west African agro-ecological zones by Hanna, R., Gnanvossou, D., Goergen, Georg E., Bokonon-Ganta, A.H., Mohamed, S.A., Ekesi, S., Fiaboe, K.K.M., Agnontchémè, A.I.

“…Mazoferm-3% captures were similar to Torula yeast, except for lower captures in the NGS where it tended to harden. The rank order of relative efficiency indices (REI) of the food baits (relative to Torula yeast) is Mazoferm-3% > Nulure > Mazoferm-6% and BioLure. …”
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Options for improving agricultural water productivity under increasing water scarcity in South Africa by Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Mpandeli, S., Nhamo, Luxon, Senzanje, Aidan, Chimonyo, Vimbayi Grace Petrova, Modi, Albert Thembinkosi

“…South Africa is ranked among the thirty driest countries in the world, a challenge that is negatively affecting agricultural production. …”
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Climate change vulnerability assessment with a focus on agriculture sector - a district level study of Assam and Odisha by Rajora, Chesta

“…Since, Principal Component 1 explains the maximum variance in the dataset, the correlation of indicators with Principal Component 1 has been used for computing the composite climate vulnerability indices. The districts are ranked on the basis of their performance on indices based on 3 components of vulnerability and composite vulnerability. …”
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Incidence and farmers' knowledge of aflatoxin contamination and control in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Udomkun, Patchimaporn, Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Nabahungu, N.L., Mutegi, C., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit

“…In 68% of all samples, total aflatoxin contamination was above 4 μg/kg, the maximum tolerable level set by the European Union. Farmers ranked high humidity, improper storage practices, and poor soils as potential causes of aflatoxin contamination and changes in color, smell, and taste, and difficulty in selling crops as consequences. …”
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Consumer Preference Testing of Boiled Sweetpotato Using Crowdsourced Citizen Science in Ghana and Uganda by Moyo, M., Ssali, R.T., Namanda, S., Nakitto, M., Dery, E., Akansake, D., Adjebeng-Danquah, J., Etten, Jacob van, Sousa, K. de, Lindqvist-Kreuze, H., Carey, E., Muzhingi, T.

“…Home and centralized tasting approaches gave similar rankings for overall acceptability, which was strongly correlated to taste. …”
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Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Using Crowdsourced Water Level Data by Weeser, B., Jacobs, S., Kraft, P., Rufino, Mariana C., Breuer, Lutz

“…As a benchmark, we used estimated discharge from automatically measured water levels and identified 2,500 parameter sets that resulted in the highest Nash‐Sutcliffe‐Efficiencies in a Monte Carlo‐based uncertainty framework (Q‐NSE). Spearman‐Rank‐Coefficients between crowdsourced water levels and modeled discharge (CS‐SR) or observed discharge and modeled discharge (Q‐SR) were used as an alternative way to calibrate the model. …”
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Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season by Taillie, P.J., Román Cuesta, Rosa María, Lagomasino, D., Cifuentes-Jara, M., Fatoyinbo, T., Ott, L.E., Poulter, B.

“…Comprised of 17 named tropical storms, 6 of which were major hurricanes, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ranked as one of the most damaging and costly hurricane seasons on record. …”
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First report of banana bunchy top disease caused by Banana bunchy top virus in Uganda by Ocimati, Walter, Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick Kadama, Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K., Tugume, Joab K., Omondi, Bonaventure Aman Oduor, Acema, Dan, Were, Evans M., Onyilo, Francis, Ssekamate, M. Allan, Namanya, Priver, Kubiriba, Jerome, Erima, Rockefeller, Okurut, A. Wilson, Kutunga, David, Blomme, Guy

“…Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) that causes banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is ranked among the top 100 invasive species in the world. …”
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Food flows and the roles of cities in West African food distribution networks by Karg, H., Bouscarat, J., Akoto-Danso, E. K., Heinrigs, P., Drechsel, Pay, Amprako, L., Buerkert, A.

“…The capital cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Bamako (Mali) relied more on lower-rank urban settlements further away, while Tamale, a secondary city in Ghana, acted as an assembly market for local rural producers and in turn supplied larger urban centers. …”
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Increasing pulse agrobiodiversity to improve food security and sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ngigi, Peter Biu, Mouquet-Rivier, Claire, Amiot, Marie-Josephe, Termote, Céline, Pallet, Dominique

“…Compared to short-life cycle pulses, long-life cycle pulses rank higher in multipurpose role. However, prior research has focused primarily on short-life cycle pulses due to rapid grain production. …”
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FR1.1: Do Water, Energy and Food Policies in Support of Solar Irrigation Enable Gender Transformative Changes in South Asia? Evidence from Policy Analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal by Khadka, Manohara, Uprety, Labisha, Shrestha, Gitta, Mukherji, Aditi, Mitra, Archisman

“…We draw on a gender transformative analysis approach and rank WEF policies on a continuum ranging from scale of 0-3 (denoting gender blind, gender aware, gender responsive and gender transformative). …”
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A meta-analysis of adoption studies of climate-smart agriculture practices (CSAPs) in Ethiopia by Abegaz, Assefa, Abera, Wuletawu, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Tamene, Lulseged D.

“…Among the 21 aggregated constraints, socioeconomic factors and knowledge/awareness were ranked the two 22 highest, followed by labor shortage and limited market access. …”
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Farmers’ Demand for Climate Information Services: A Systematic Review by Ouedraogo, Adama, Egyir, Irene S, Ouedraogo, Mathieu, Jatoe, John Baptist D

“…According to the consumer theory, information such as elasticity of price and income, ranked substitutes of CIS, which are still lacking, are key for understanding the CIS demand. …”
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Drivers of success in collaborative monitoring in forest landscape restoration: An indicative assessment from Latin America by Evans, K., Meli, P., Zamora-Cristales, R., Schweizer, D., Méndez-Toribio, M., Gómez-Ruiz, P.A., Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…Several of the lowest-ranked success factors related to training for local people in the use of tools, forms and technology for data collection, and to interpreting data to promote understanding of management outcomes. …”
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Five decades of freshwater salinization in the Amu Darya River Basin by Hao, L., Wang, P., Gojenko, B., Yu, J., Lv, A., Li, F., Kenjabaev, Shavkat, Kulmatov, R., Khikmatov, F.

“…The salinity-discharge relationships were evaluated by a general hyperbolic model and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Random forest models were also constructed to identify the predominant drivers of river water salinization. …”
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Assessment of Women and Youth Friendliness of Climate Smart Agriculture and One Health Technologies Piloted in Ghana by Haleegoah, Joyce, Yeboah, Stephen, Adomako, Joseph, Amankwaa-Yeboah, Patricia, Frimpong-Anin, Kofi, Eyram Amengor, Natson, Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Damba, Osman T, Kyere, Reginal, Obeng, Faustina, Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain

“…Youth involvement and the friendliness of the CSA technologies to women were ranked high by participants. The requirements for implementation were low, and the technology was accessible and affordable not displacing women and youth in their roles. …”
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Can water, energy, and food policies in support of solar irrigation enable gender transformative changes? Evidence from policy analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal by Khadka, Manohara, Uprety, Labisha, Shrestha, Gitta, Shakya, Shristi, Mitra, Archisman, Mukherji, Aditi

“…Therefore, in this study, we reviewed 39 WEF sectoral policies of Bangladesh and Nepal by adopting a gender-transformative analysis approach to rank the policies on a continuum ranging from a scale of 0–3 (denoting gender-unaware, gender-aware, gender-responsive, and gendertransformative). …”
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Assessment of Women and Youth Friendliness of Climate Smart Agriculture and One Health Technologies Piloted in Ghana by Haleegoah, Joyce, Yeboah, Stephen, Adomako, Joseph, Amankwaa-Yeboah, Patricia, Frimpong-Anin, Kofi, Amengor, Natson Eyram, Dalaa, Mustapha A., Damba, Osman T., Kyere, Reginal, Obeng, Faustina, Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain

“…Youth involvement and the friendliness of the CSA technologies to women were ranked high by participants. The requirements for implementation were low, and the technology was accessible and affordable not displacing women and youth in their roles. …”
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Is silicon beneficial for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)? by Barhebwa, F., Li, Z., Bragad, C., Vanlauwe, B., Delvaux, B.

“…Background and aim Ranked among the world’s top ten crops, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the main staple food in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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