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Improving food safety and quality in traditional dairy value chain in Assam: An assessment of economic impact by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Deka, Ram Pratim, Lindahl, Johanna F., Grace, Delia

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Calf management practices, challenges and opportunities in traditional cattle production systems in the Peanut Basin of Senegal by Tebug, Stanly Fon, Kamga-Waladjo, A.R., Ema, P.J.N., Muyeneza, C., Kane, O., Seck, A.S., Ly, M.T., Lo, M.

“…Calf management in traditional cattle herds in many parts of the tropics receive less attention as compared to immediate income-generating cows or bulls. …”
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Promoting minor crops: striking a balance between formal and informal, traditional and modern systems by Galluzzi, Gea, López Noriega, Isabel, Ramírez, M.

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Diet diversification through local foods: experiences from traditional vegetable promotion work in Kenya by Maundu, P., Grum, M., Morimoto, Y., Eyzaguirre, Pablo B., Johns, T.

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Bridging managed and natural landscapes - The role of traditional agriculture in maintaining the diversity and resilience of natural ecosystems by Oudenhoven, F.J.W. van, Eyzaguirre, Pablo B., Mijatović, Dunja

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Folk taxonomy and traditional management of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity in southern and central Benin by Agre, A.P., Gueye, B., Adjatin, A., Dansi, M., Bathacharjee, R., Rabbi, Ismail Y., Gedil, Melaku A

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Informal Seed systems and the management of gene flow in traditional agroecosystems: the case of cassava in Cauca, Colombia by Dyer, George, González, Carolina, Lopera, Diana Carolina

“…Our ability to manage gene flow within traditional agroecosystems and their repercussions requires understanding the biology of crops, including farming practices" role in crop ecology. …”
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Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat by Mancini, C., Mengistu, D.K., Pè, M.E., Fadda, Carlo, Dell'Acqua, M., Melfa and Workaye Farmer Community, Kidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat

“…To date, participatory methods only scratched the surface of the exploitability of farmers’ traditional knowledge in breeding. In this study, 30 smallholder farmers in each of two locations in Ethiopia provided quantitative evaluations of earliness, spike morphology, tillering capacity and overall quality on 400 wheat genotypes, mostly traditional varieties, yielding altogether 192,000 data points. …”
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Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential of traditional and diversified tropical rice rotation systems by Weller, Sebastian, Janz, Baldur, Jörg, Lena, Kraus, David, Racela, Heathcliff S. U., Wassmann, Reiner, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Kiese, Ralf

“…These factors are changing traditional cropping patterns from double-rice cropping to the introduction of upland crops in the dry season. …”
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Traditional knowledge, perceptions and forest conditions in a Dayak Mentebah community, West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Weihreter, E.

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Traditional enset [Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman] sucker propagation methods and opportunities for crop improvement by Yemataw, Z., Tawle, K., Blomme, Guy, Jacobsen, K.

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Germination and Vigor of Maize Seeds: Pilot-Scale Comparison of Low-Oxygen and Traditional Storage Methods by Abadia, María Bernadette, Castillo, Luciana, Alonso, Yanela, Monterubbianesi, María Gloria, Maciel, Gisele, Bartosik, Ricardo Enrique

“…Then, we compared the germination and vigor of seeds stored in the hermetic containers under modified and self-modified atmospheres with those stored in traditional poly-paper bags under normal atmospheric conditions. …”
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From traditional knowledge to novel adaptations of transhumant pastoralists the in face of new challenges in North Patagonia by Easdale, Marcos Horacio, Aguiar, Martín Roberto

“…We developed a collective cognitive mapping based on individual semi-structured interviews and network analysis techniques aimed at identifying their predominant perceptions. Traditional cultural issues associated with forms of livelihood and transhumant lifestyle were dominantly manifested, but there were references to some key resources, problems, and opportunities rooted in modern or urban lifestyle system. …”
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Postharvest Changes in the Nutritional Properties of Commercial and Traditional Lettuce Varieties in Relation with Overall Visual Quality by Martínez-Ispizua, Eva, Calatayud, Ángeles, Marsal, José I., Basile, Federico, Cannata, Claudio, Abdelkhalik, Abdelsattar, Soler, Salvador, Valcárcel, José Vicente, Martínez-Cuenca, Mary-Rus

“…Nowadays the cultivation and consumption of traditional lettuce varieties are growing as they are particularly appealing to consumers for their diversity, and high nutraceutical quality. …”
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Traditional cocoa agroforestry systems in Waslala, Nicaragua: adoption of technology and adaptation to local environment and priorities by Lok, R, Sandino, D

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Sustainability effects of introducing legumes in traditional cropping systems : an experimental case study in Swedish context by Rönnholm Håkansson, Jakob, Bergsland, Ulrik

Initiative regionale OOAS/ROPPA/Bioversity International pour la promotion des aliments locaux de la biodiversite des systems vivriers traditionnels de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: Rappor... by Organisation Ouest Africaine de la Santé, Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricole de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Bioversity International

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WAHO/ROPPA/Bioversity International regional initiative for the promotion of local foods from the biodiversity of West Africa's traditional food systems: Report of a regional workshop of small-scale farmer organizations, researchers, and representatives from regional and international organizations 3-5 November, 2009, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by West African Health Organization, Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricole de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Bioversity International

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Reunion des partenaires sur l'initiative regionale pour la promotion des aliments locaux des filieres alimentaires traditionnelles Ouest Africaines, Abuja Nigeria, du 18-20 Mai 201... by Organisation Ouest Africaine de la Santé, Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricole de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Bioversity International, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Stakeholders’ meeting on the regional initiative for the promotion of local foods from West Africa's traditional food systems, Abuja Nigeria, May 18th-20th 2010 by Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricole de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Bioversity International, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States

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