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Status and Trends of Agricultural and Rural Development Indicators in the COMESA Region por Massawe, Stella C., Karugia, Joseph T., Wanjiku, J., Macharia, E., Otieno, D.

“…Section three contains gender related information while section four focuses on food security in COMESA. …”
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Income from non-timber forest products por Arnold, J.E.M., Ruíz Pérez, M.

“…NTFPs can be of particular importance to people in forested mountain locations, because of their relative lack of access to alternative inputs and sources of income. …”
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Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia por Wadley, R.L., Colfer, C.J.P.

“…The authors relate the results to the role of such sites in the overall Iban agroforestry system and in the conservation of forest habitat that professional conservationists deem precious. …”
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Perceptions of incentives for participation: insights from joint forest management in India por Kumar, C.

“…It specifically examines three hypotheses related to perceptions of villagers about incentives offered under the JFM programme and relates them to their participation in joint management. …”
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Efficiency of fresh milk marketing systems in the Bamako area: some preliminary results por Achuonjei, P.N., Debrah, S.K.

“…The marketing systems in sub-Saharan Africa have been alleged to be inefficient, yet relatively little research has been done on marketing efficiency. …”
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Effect of trypanosome infection, control of parasitaemia and control of anaemia development on productivity of N'Dama cattle por Trail, J.C.M., D'Ieteren, G.D.M., Feron, A., Kakiese, O., Mulungo, M., Pelo, M.

“…Secondly, estimation of the repeatabilities of these aspects of trypanosome infection relative to repeatabilities of performance traits was undertaken. …”
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Genetics of resistance to endoparasites and ectoparasites por Baker, R.L.

“…A 3 year experiment in Armidale which was recently conducted helped quantify the relative importance of different strategies for the control of gastrointestinal nematode parasites. …”
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Vaccines and diagnostic tools for animal health: The influence of biotechnology por McKeever, Declan J., Rege, J.E.O.

“…However, greatest advances arising from biotechnological development relate to the detection and characterisation of pathogens in infected hosts. …”
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Livelihood transitions and the changing nature of farmer-herder conflict in Sahelian West Africa por Turner, M.D., Ayantunde, Augustine A., Patterson, K.P., Patterson, E.D.

“…While the convergence of livelihoods arguably increases the frequency of conflict triggers, it has also, through the expansion of shared common interests and cross-group, production-related relationships, improved the ability of communities to effectively manage these incipient conflicts.…”
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Sustainable financing, scaling up WASH [Water, Sanitation and Hygiene] and urban agriculture por Veenhuizen, René van, Bruijne, G. de, Otoo, Miriam

“…According to the first, an adequate mix of public and private financing, and significant reliance on local finance options, for any activity is necessary to avoid dependency on external funding (often project related). The second perspective relates to the purpose of the investment, focusing here on value chains in the sanitation and (peri)urban agricultural (UPA) sectors. …”
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An approach to estimating the potential production benefits from improved water management for rice por Small, L.E., Chen, C.L.

“…In situations of irrigated rice cultivation, both ex post estimates of such benefits and ex ante estimates of the maximum potential benefits of further improvements in allocation of a given water supply are possible using a conceptual framework which (1) functionally relates weekly water supplies to weekly measures of average water shortage on individual paddy fields; (2) aggregates the weekly water shortage measures into a seasonal water shortage index; and (3) relates, via a production function, the seasonal water shortage index to yields. …”
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Detection of a strain of soybean mosaic virus affecting tropical forage species of Centrosema por Morales, Francisco José, Niessen, AI, Castaño, M., Calvert, Lee A.

“…The virus was serologically indistinguishable from soybean mosaic virus and was related to bean common mosaic and watermelon mosaic-2 viruses. …”
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Evaluation of the dry bean model BEANGRO V1.01 for crop production research in a tropical environment por White, Jeffrey W., Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Jones, James W., Boote, Kenneth J.

“…This paper evaluates the responses of the process-oriented growth model for dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), BEANGRO V1.01, with an emphasis on the factors related to cultivar differences for production in tropical environments. …”
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Adapting social science to the changing focus of international agricultural research. Proceedings of a Rockefeller Foundation-ILCA social science research fellows workshop

“…The third explores issues related to commodity policies and food security. The fourth looks at the more incipient role of social science in the newer area of natural resource management and biodiversity. …”
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Genetic dilution of the Ethiopian Boran cattle por Alemayehu, N., Gebru, G., Ayalew, W.

“…This paper is originally designed to address some of the issues related to the causes of Boran breed admixing and the pastoralists perception on Boran breed genetic dilution to be presented as a part of future large scale study on problems related to Boran breed conservation and Development.The issues discussed include causes of genetic dilution; drought and conflict; restocking; natural selection; traditional resource management; deliberate crossbreeding; preliminary finding on perception of pastoral communities on genetic admixtures; and what should be done in the future.…”
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Governance of global value chains in response to food safety and certification standards: the case of shrimp from Vietnam por NhuongTran, Bailey, Conner, Wilson, Norbert L.W., Phillips, Michael

“…Governance relations become more fragmented further down the chain where large numbers of small-scale producers and traders operate. …”
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Using multiple objectives in participatory assessment of International Livestock Research: lessons learned por Kristjanson, Patricia M., Randolph, Thomas F., Thornton, Philip K., Reid, Robin S., Ryan, J.

“…Lessons learned in applying such a framework and the challenges related to evaluating each criterion are discussed. …”
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The coffee genome provides insight into the convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis por Denoeud, F., Carretero-Paulet, L., Dereeper, A., Guignon, Valentin, Rouard, M.

“…Although this species underwent fewer genome duplications than related species, the relevant caffeine genes experienced tandem duplications that expanded their numbers within this species. …”
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Body dimensions of Nigerian cattle, sheep and goats por Hall, S.J.G.

“…The humped cattle breeds are large-bodied; humpless Kuri are narrow-bodied and tall in relation to their length when compared with British breeds. …”
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Climate risk adaptation by smallholder farmers: the roles of trees and agroforestry por Lasco, Rodel, Delfino, R.J.P., Catacutan, D.C., Simelton, Elisabeth, Wilson DM

“…Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to environmental, climate and weather-related stress, including climate change. There is an increase in understanding of the benefits of agroforestry systems both at farm and landscape scales, and that incorporating trees on farms through agroforestry systems has emerged as having the potential to enhance the resilience of smallholders to current and future climate risks including future climate change. …”
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