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Automatic Feedback Control to Maintain Constant Soil Moisture Tension in the Study of Drought Tolerance in Rice por Alvarez, E.I., De Datta, S.K.

“…The setup for supplying water at relatively constant soil moisture tension in pots includes five major components—water tank, W‐tube, water distribution system, soil moisture tension sensors, and pots. …”
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Improving Seed Systems for Women and Disadvantaged Groups in Uganda por Katabalwa, Charles, Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Yila, Jummai

“…Smallholder farmers, particularly women and disadvantaged groups in sub-Saharan Africa, face climate-related challenges like droughts and erratic rainfall, threatening agricultural production1. …”
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Quantifying the health impact of crop breeding: Revisiting the Disability-Adjusted Life Years Approach por Lenaerts, Bert

“…This entails calculating the efficacy or relative reduction in hunger burden based on the current and post-intervention nutrient intake against the recommended dietary allowances. …”
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Mid-level actors and their operating environments for implementing nutrition-sensitive programming in Ethiopia por Warren, Andrea M., Frongillo, Edward A.

“…This paper provides an analysis of mid-level actors and their operating environments in relation to implementing nutrition-sensitive programming in Ethiopia. …”
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Estimating sample size for inference about the Shannon-Weaver and the Simpson Indices of species diversity por Magnussen, S., Boyle, T.J.B.

“…A framework for a priori estimation of the expected sampling variances of the Shannon-Weaver and the Simpson indices of species diversity is developed by the introduction of the most probable relative species abundance distribution (MOPSAD). MOPSAD gives the prior probability of a species' relative abundance. …”
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Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community por Kowero, G.S., Spilsbury, M.J.

“…In 1995 a survey of research capacity was conducted at institutions undertaking forestry-related research in the SADC countries. This document presents a review of the methods available for the assessment of research capacity and summarizes previous efforts to assess research capacity in the region. …”
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Climate, security, and the study of religion in Africa: Insights from Northern Mozambique por Tarusarira, Joram, Maviza, Gracsious

“…It demonstrates that the emergence of security challenges related to climate change provides religious studies with new data and, therefore, new challenges in rethinking the meaning of African religions. …”
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Survey data on factors that drive farmers away from straw burning in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam por Cuong, Ong Quoc, Demont, Matty, Pabuayon, Isabelita M., Depositario, Dinah Pura T.

“…The dataset includes variables related to socio-economic characteristics, production factors, and geographical location that influence farmers’ choices of rice straw management practices. …”
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Secondary forests of the Himalaya with emphasis on the north-eastern hill region of India por Ramakrishnan, P.S., Kushwaha, S.P.S.

“…A particular approach suggested is to benefit from the sociocultural heritage related to keystone species such as Alnus nepalensis. …”
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A goal programming model for planning management of Miombo woodlands por Guveya, E., Sukume, C.

“…The results from the study indicate that households in communal areas are highly differentiated with regards to ability to satisfying family sustenance goals; relatively poor households depend on woodlands for a significant part of their income needs but richer families are more efficient in harvesting woodlands; increase in agricultural product prices or increase in crops yield tend to increase harvesting of woodland products among the better off and reduce woodland harvests by the poorer households; and loss of a member of a household increases the degree of poverty especially among the relatively poor with the greatest impacts being felt with loss of female members of households.…”
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Participatory analysis of heterogeneity, an approach to consolidate collaborative initiatives at community level por Pokorny, B., Cayres, G., Nunes, W.

“…The smallest unit in the typology was in all cases a group member and their related family. Emotional parameters play a key role in people's perceptions of heterogeneity. …”
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Influencing the global forest policy agenda: an evaluation of CIFOR's research por Spilsbury, M.J., Bose, P.

“…Two broad, and partially overlapping, policy impact pathways are examined: 1.) research influence on organizations responsible for major financial flows to forest-related development assistance; 2.) research influence on the key organizations that help shape the global forest agenda. …”
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Gender analysis in forestry research: looking back and thinking ahead por Mai, Y.H., Mwangi, E., Wan, M.

“…The patterns also relate to the focus on poverty reduction efforts that gained widespread prominence in the 1990s. …”
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Relationships between management intensity and structural and social variables in dairy and dual-purpose systems in Santa Cruz, Bolivia por Solano, C., Bernués, A., Rojas, F., Joaquín, N.Y., Fernández, W., Herrero, Mario

“…Quantitative and qualitative data related to farm dimensions, land use, pasture, nutrition, reproduction and health management and farm household social characteristics, access to information and technical assistance were collected from 319 farms in the main dairy-producing regions of Santa Cruz. …”
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Epidemiology of bovine trypanosomiasis in the Ghibe Valley, southwest Ethiopia. 1. Tsetse challenge and its relationship to trypanosome prevalence in cattle por Leak, S.G.A., Mulatu, W., Authié, Edith, D'Ieteren, G.D.M., Peregrine, A.S., Rowlands, G.J., Trail, J.C.M.

“…The tsetse challenge to cattle at two sites in the area was estimated as the product of tsetse relative density and the trypanosome infection rate in flies. …”
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Voluntary intake by sheep and goats of Gliricidia sepium fed in three states and at three levels of supplementation to a basal diet of Panicum maximum por Smith, Jimmy W., Larbi, Asamoah, Jabbar, M.A., Akinlade, J.

“…The crude protein content and DM loss from dried leaves were relatively lower than fresh and wilted leaves. At all levels of supplementation, the voluntary DM intakes of fresh and wilted leaves by WAD sheep and goats were relatively higher than dried leaves. …”
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The relationships between gas production and chemical composition of 23 browses of the genus Sesbania por Nsahlai, I.V., Siaw, D.E.K.A., Osuji, P.O.

“…This study evaluates the differences in the gas produced by Sesbania accessions and related gas production to macro-constituents and tannin content of the browse species. …”
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Leaves from tropical trees as protein supplements in diets for sheep por Wiegand, R.O., Reed, J.D., Combs, D.K., Said, A.N.

“…Higher content of proanthocyanidins and related polyphenols in F. albida had no detrimental effect on N balance and rate of gain (P < 0.05) in comparison to alfalfa. …”
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Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia por Gavian, S., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Interspatial measures of total factor productivity, based on the Divisia index, were used to measure the relative production efficiency of three informal and less secure land contracts (rented, share-cropped and borrowed) relative to lands held under formal contract with the Ethiopian government. …”
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Implicit prices of indigenous cattle traits in central Ethiopia: Application of revealed and stated preference approaches por Kassie, Girma T., Abdulai, A., Wollny, C.B.A., Ayalew, W., Dessie, Tadelle, Tibbo, Markos, Haile, Aynalem, Okeyo Mwai, Ally

“…Applying the characteristics theory of value, this research estimated the relative economic worth of the attributes of cattle genetic resources in central Ethiopia. …”
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