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Improving silage digestibility with fibrolytic enzymes by Eliasson, Thomas

“…Ruminants are excellent converters of plant material that otherwise is highly indigestible for humans. Though, the vegetation period in Sweden is short and must supply all forage needed to feed the cow throughout the year. …”

Frilevande larver av Strongylus vulgaris by Ling, Julia

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Gyllins trädgårds alléer och kulturella ekosystemtjänser : en underlag- och platsanalys by Jakobsson, Lovisa

“…Utöver det nämns det vid flertal tillfällen att befintlig vegetation ska bevaras. Begreppet allé används sällan i underlag trots att flera är planterade och bevarade i området. …”

Utvärdering av nya affärsområden för Luna by Norlén, Mats

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Elaboración de un sistema confiable para la detección y caracterización de virus y fitoplasmas que afectan a la vid

“…Aplicando la técnica ELISA para la detección de GFLV, ToRSV, ArMV, GVA, GVB, GLRaV-1, 2, 3, GFkV en material vegetal recolectado al azar, se han obtenidos resultados que indican presencia de algunos de estos virus con porcentajes de infección preocupantes. …”
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Desarrollo de tecnologías para producción orgánica de cerezas bajo las condiciones agroecológicas del secano interior de Malleco

“…Esto, asume un rol estratégico para orientar a los fruticultores de la zona sur de Chile en la elección de las combinaciones cultivar- portainjerto más confiables y a los viveristas para la preparación del material vegetal de alta calidad y cantidad suficiente para satisfacer la demanda por árboles de cerezos, idealmente terminadas para el escalamiento del rubro en forma comercial y con fines de exportación en la zona sur de Chile. …”
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Probabilistic assessment of investment options in honey value chains in Lamu county, Kenya by Wafula, Joshua, Karimjee, Yusuf, Tamba, Yvonne, Malava, Geoffrey, Muchiri, Caroline, Koech, Grace, Leeuw, Jan de, Nyongesa, Josephat, Shepherd, Keith D., Luedeling, Eike

“…This is because honey producers have an interest to conserve the vegetation and plant species that produce the nectar and pollen that supports the value chain. …”
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Mapping cropland fallow areas in Myanmar to scale up sustainable intensification of pulse crops in the farming system by Gumma, Murali K., Thenkabail, Prasad S., Kumara Charyulu, Deevi, Mohammed, I. A., Teluguntla, P., Oliphant, A., Xiong, J., Aye, T., Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…The study used moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) 250-m, 16-day normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) maximum value composite (MVC), and land surface water index (LSWI) for one 1 year (1 June 2012–31 May 2013) along with seasonal field-plot level information and spectral matching techniques to derive croplands versus cropland fallows for each of the three seasons: the monsoon period between June and October; winter period between November and February; and summer period between March and May. …”
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Improving the productivity of millet based cropping systems in the West African Sahel: Experiences from a long-term experiment in Niger by Bado, V.B., Bationo, A., Whitbread, Anthony M., Tabo, Ramadjita, Laminou, M., Manzo, S.

“…Soil organic carbon decreased in all the CS from 46% to 63% compared with the soil kept under natural vegetation fallow. The improved CS increased soil P from 3.4 to 4 times. …”
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CSA-CIS MSD workshop report focusing on aquaculture by Kakwasha, Keagan, Lundeba, Mary, Kanyembo, Henry, Kagabo, Desire, Mudege, Netsayi N.

“…The farm has eight fishponds with an average size of 800 m2 each, a banana plantation of 8 acres, and other crops and livestock, including dairy cattle, goats, sheep, poultry, pigs, assorted fruits and vegetables. The farm uses a solar plant as its primary source of power and stressed that this has significantly reduced the cost of production as it is off-grid and, at the same time, reduces the disruption of production resulting from power cuts from the national grid. …”
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Situation report on Nepal’s agrifood systems : April 2023 by Kishore, Avinash, Saroj, Sunil, Minot, Nicholas, Dorosh, Paul A., Parajuli, R.R., Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…A sharp 8.8 percent decline in the price of vegetables compared to last year helped lower the inflation in food prices. …”
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Dietary quality and nutrition in Myanmar: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi, Headey, Derek D., Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Tauseef, Salauddin

“…We then use food demand estimation to estimate income and own price elasticities, which reveal strong preferences for animal-sourced foods, but weaker preferences for vegetables and pulses. Expenditure data also point to strong demand for oils/fats – a problem observed throughout developing Asia (Pingali and Abraham 2022) – and for food away from home, which partially explains the rising burden of overweight/obesity in Myanmar. …”
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National serosurvey and risk mapping reveal widespread distribution of Coxiella burnetii in Kenya by Wambua, Lillian, Bett, Bernard K., Abkallo, Hussein M., Muturi, Mathew, Nthiwa, D., Nyamota, Richard, Kiprono, Enock, Kirwa, Lynn, Gakuya, F., Bartlow, A.W., Middlebrook, E.A., Fair, J., Njenga, K., Gachohi, J., Mwatondo, Athman, Akoko, James M.

“…The evidence generated on the potential role of environmental factors can also be used to design nature-based interventions, such as replacement of vegetation in denuded areas, to reduce potential for the aerosolization of the pathogen. …”
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The state of food security and nutrition in Myanmar, 2021-2024: Findings from eight rounds of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey by Tauseef, Salauddin, Linn, Khin Mar, Oo, Theingi

“…Decreases in diet quality among adults were driven by lower consumption of animal sourced food and vegetables. In the latest round of the survey, 30.7 percent of all children aged 6-23 months and 21.3 percent of all children aged 6-59 months had inadequate diet quality. …”
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Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of CIFOR/Japan Project in Indonesia and Peru by Kobayashi, S.

“…With the Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agraria (INIA), Peru, the project is trying out re-vegetation of abandoned fallow fields after agricultural use. …”
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Impact assessment of rainwater harvesting ponds: the case of Alaba Woreda, Ethiopia by Amha, R.

“…The finding in the cropping pattern shows that, farm households have started to grow new crops (vegetables and perennial crops) as a result of water availability from the water harvesting ponds. …”
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Assessment of feed resources and rangeland condition in Metema District of North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia by Desalew, T.

“…The height of 41.2% of trees and shrubs in communal grazing areas, 38.5% in road side grazing and 33.3% in enclosed areas were grouped within the height class of (1- 3 m) .The range condition assessment factors (basal cover, litter cover, grass species composition, woody vegetation density, canopy cover, hedging effect, age distribution and total condition score) in communal grazing areas of SBFS were significantly (P<0.05) higher than CBFS. …”
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Inter-epidemic Rift Valley fever virus seropositivity in an irrigation scheme in Bura, southeast Kenya by Mbotha, D., Bett, Bernard K., Kairu-Wanyoike, S.W., Grace, Delia, Kihara, Absolomon, Wainaina, M., Hoppenheit, A., Clausen, Peter-Henning, Lindahl, Johanna F.

“…This is through provision of necessary environmental conditions for vegetative growth thus providing vectors with more breeding grounds, shade and resting places, which further prolong their lifespans thereby propagating the virus. …”
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Productivity, profitability and partial nutrient balance in maize-based conventional and organic farming systems in Kenya by Adamtey, Noah, Musyoka, M.W., Zundel, C., Cobo Borrero, Juan G., Karanja, E., Fiaboe, K.K.M., Muriuki, A., Mucheru-Muna, M., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Berset, E., Messmer, M.M., Gattinger, A., Bhullar, G.S., Cadisch, Georg, Fliessbach, A., Mäder, Paul, Niggli, U., Foster, D.

“…The trials so far have consisted of a 6-season, 3-year, crop rotation with maize (Zea mays L.) planted in the long rainy seasons (March-September), and vegetables in the short rainy seasons (October – February). …”
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Indirect Impact Assessment of the road segment San Juan Nepomuceno-Ruta 6 in Paraguay by Reymondin, Louis, Arévalos, Fabiana, Palacios, Fernando, Caballero, Jazmín, Ortíz, Edder, Báez, Marcos, Arango, David, Bautista, Oscar, Yanosky, Alberto, Villalba, Alberto

“…For the purpose of the analysis, the study used satellite images to detect deviations from the usual pattern of vegetation and thus identify anthropogenic change. The deforestation baseline in the study area was defined using Landsat imagery from 1987 to 2014. …”
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