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AICCRA Gender and Social Inclusion: Looking Forward in Gender Smart Agriculture by Huyer, Sophia, Gondwe, Therese

“…Greater attention is needed relating to innovative capacity of women and youth in value chains. …”
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Cassava and maize intercropping system - The effect of varieties and and plant populations by Ezumah, H.C., Lawson, T.L.

“…Maize dominated cassava irrespective of cassava or maize growth habit and the optimum maize population giving the highest production based on relative yield total or land equivalent ratio varied with maize variety in a tropical Alfisol at Ibadan, transition humid/subhumid zone in West Africa. …”
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Two-wheel Tractor: A Versatile and Low-Cost Farm Power Source for the Smallholder Farmers by Matin, M. A., Mulundu, S., Zingwari, O.

“…The two-wheel tractor has great potential for scaling in Zambia due to the relatively small landholding sizes among smallholder farmers.…”
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Water for food security: The contribution of CGIAR in addressing global agricultural water challenges by Xie, Hua, Masso, Cargele

“…At the same time, the intensive use of water in agriculture and related processes creates significant pressures on water resources and aquatic ecosystems. …”
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The prospects for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Mesoamerica by Kaimowitz, D.

“…Mesoamerica presents a logical starting point to promote REDD due to the extent of its forest, and the relatively advanced state of its forest management institutions and policies. …”
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A Water Poverty Analysis of the Niger Basin, West Africa by Ward, John, Kaczan, David, Lukasiewicz, Anna

“…Research outputs presented here include maps of high poverty incidence and water related vulnerability. The statistical analysis revealed considerable spatial variation in water related poverty in addition to significant differences in the intra and inter-national factors associated with poverty. …”
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Social and cultural attitudes towards adoption of cow traction by Shapiro, Barry I.

“…This presentation deals with the prospects for technology transfer and specifically with the anthropological and cultural considerations related to this work. The anthropological work was done by Dr. …”
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Gene-knockout mice in malaria research: Useful or misleading? by Hernández Valladares, M., Naessens, Jan, Iraqi, F.A.

“…Some investigators believe that the deficient, infected mice mimic disease aspects produced in the absence of the target gene, but others believe that the deficient mice models mainly explain the effects of compensatory, related molecules. Comparison of some of the most relevant knockout mouse studies for understanding cerebral malaria and parasitemia and their related human reports shows that gene-knockout mice are useful tools that support conclusions from human genetic studies. …”
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Beyond tariffs: The role of non-tariff barriers in dairy trade in the East African Community free trade area by Gelan, Ayele, Omore, Amos O.

“…This study used a spatial equilibrium modelling approach to quantify the relative welfare impacts of eliminating tariffs and non-tariff barriers on trade in dairy products among East African Community (EAC) member countries. …”
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Macroeconomic, international trade and sectoral policies in livestock development. An analysis with particular reference to low income countries by Williams, Timothy O., Rosa, D.A. de, Badiane, O.

“…Section 3 examines agricultural and livestock development in major developing regions in relation to macroeconomic and trade policies whereas Section 4 looks at livestock sector policies. …”
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Evaluation of indigenous, exotic and crossbred cattle for beef production in a semi arid environment by Moyo, Siboniso, Rege, J.E.O., Swanepoel, F.J.C.

“…The relative performance of Mashona, Nkone, Tuli (indigenous breeds), Afrikaner, all these being Sanga type, Charolais, Sussex (Bos Taurus), Brahman (Zebu) and several resultant crosses reared on range in a semi arid environment was assessed. …”
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Trypanosome population biology - an approach to support the control of drug resistance and integrated trypanosomosis control by Coleman, P.G., McDermott, John J.

“…Specific areas of research are proposed (e.g. experimental determination of the relative fitness of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant clones) that are important to furthering this knowledge.…”
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Efectividad relativa de combinaciones de rizobios con leguminosas forrajeras tropicales: Catálogo de resultados de ensayos en invernadero y campo by Sylvester-Bradley, Rosemary, Franco D, MA, Mosquera P, D.

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The burden of human African trypanosomiasis by Fèvre, Eric M., Wissmann, B.V., Welburn, S.C., Lutumba, P.

“…We review current knowledge on the burden of HAT in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), data sources, and methodological issues relating to the use of this metric for assessing the burden of this disease. …”
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Farm-level and consumption responses to improved efficiency of Tanzania’s informal dairy value chain by Twine, Edgar E., Katjiuongua, Hikuepi B.

“…Using aggregate time series data to simulate the model, the study finds that improvement in scale efficiency offers relatively large benefits to both producers and consumers. …”
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Tea sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Eastern Africa Grain Council

“…Besides building strategies to proactively respond to climate change, ACP countries will also need to diversify their trade relations and expand regional trade; develop value-added processing and market diversification strategies; and respond to the strong growth in demand for fair trade and organic tea.…”
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Cassava/ecosystem relationships and their influence on breeding strategy by Lozano, J.C., Byrne, D., Bellotti, Anthony C.

“…Aspects related to breeding programs in cassava, the impact of past strategies and exptl results related to them are discussed. …”
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Farmer participatory research: Institutional considerations by Wortmann, Charles S., Walker, F.R., Ngambeki, D.S.

“…Farmer participatory research (FPR) is conducted to compliment conventional research approaches with two major objectives in mind: to increase the efficiency of developing and testing alternative technologies with subsequent improvement of production systems; and to improve the adaptive research capacity of the farmers. The relative amount of emphasis placed on these objectives needs consideration as it relates to how the FPR can best be structured. …”
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Fit for purpose? A review of guides for gender-equitable value chain development by Stoian, D., Donovan, J., Elias, Marlène, Blare, T.

“…However, gaps persist in their coverage of gender-based constraints in collective enterprises, the influence of norms on gender relations, and processes to transform inequitable relations through VCD. …”
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Cassava and maize intercropping system: the effects of varieties and plant populations by Ezumah, H., Lawson, T.

“…Maize dominated cassava irrespective of cassava or maize growth habit and the optimum maize population giving the highest production based on relative yield total or land equivalent ratio varied with maize variety in a tropical Alfisol at Ibadan, transition humid/subhumid zone in West Africa. …”
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