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An integrated hydro-economic modelling framework to evaluate water allocation strategies I: model development by George, B.A., Malano, H.M.M., Davidson, B., Hellegers, Petra J.G.J., Bharati, Luna, Massuel, S.

“…In applying this framework it was concluded that competition for Musi water is very high, the transfer of water from agriculture to urban users is likely to grow in future and the value of water used in different agricultural zones is very low.…”
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Satisfying future water demands for agriculture by Fraiture, Charlotte de, Wichelns, Dennis

“…Increasing demands for water by industrial and urban users, and water for the environment will intensify competition. …”
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Harvestplus : Breeding crops for better nutrition by Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., McClafferty, Bonnie F.

“…The major activities to be undertaken are broadly grouped into research related to nutrition research and impact analysis, and research considerations for delivering biofortified crops to end-users effectively. The paper places particular emphasis on the activities of the plant breeding and genetics component of this multidisciplinary program. …”
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Intensifying production among smallholder farmers: The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda by Sperling, L., Munyanesa, S

“…Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines the adoption of improved climbing beans across regions and potential user groups. Use of improved climbing beans, by 500,000 households, cross-cuts farm size, economic class and gender boundaries, and is most intensive among the more disadvantaged. …”
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Technology-policy gap and impact on application of animal biotechnology in sub-Saharan African countries by Oluoch-Kosura,Willis, Odhiambo, M.O.

“…Moreover, concerted efforts from the national and international community in addressing issues of intellectual property rights, biosafety regulations and rules, fair trade, as well as effective and open communication between researchers, policymakers and technology users would be required.…”
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A framework for environmental ex-ante impact assessment of livestock value chains by Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Lannerstad, Mats, Herrero, Mario, Fraval, Simon, Ran, Ylva, Paul, Birthe K., Mugatha, Simon M., Barron, Jennie, Morris, J.

“…It is taking into account all value chain components, different spatial and temporal scales and environmental impacts across different dimensions. The framework guides users through a step-wise procedure for assessing how interventions are likely to change the production system and value chain. …”
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Improving farmers' access to clean planting material through partnership in the value chain. by Ndirigwe, J., Sindi, K., Kankundiye, L., Shumbusha, D., Nshimiye, J.C., Hakizimana, S., Low, Jan W.

“…Therefore an efficient sustainable seed system for multiplication and distribution of cleaning planting material to users is vital. Through a thorough need assessment, four districts were identified for OFSP promotion. …”
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Up-scaling orange-fleshed sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam) technologies in western Kenya. by Ndolo, P.J., McEwan, M., Akhwale, M., Odongo, M., Nabiwa, G., Yaite, B.

“…Thirteen information products were made available to the users through 15 different uptake pathways. Area under OFSP root production increased by over 600% while productivity per unit area increased from 8 to 16 tons/ha in the project counties…”
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Descriptors for on-farm conservation and use of Butia odorata natural populations by Mistura, C.C., Barbieri, R.L., Castro, C., Padulosi, S., Alercia, A.

“…Standard list of descriptors developed byex situconservationists are widely used by breeders, but they rarely reach out to farmers and other user groups, a fact that limits the full use of germplasm collections around the world. …”
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The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, April - June 2015 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Additionally, read about a recently launched project led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) on a user-friendly forecasting system that integrates improved seasonal climate information and how it will make it possible for east African policy makers to access accurate and timely early warning systems. …”
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Extending Tripal to manage banana genetic resource information by Guignon, Valentin, Andrieu, A., Ficklin, S.P., Ruas, M., Roux, N., Rouard, M.

“…Large-scale genetic and phenotypic characterization of germplasm collections has the great potential to change the way scientists deal with genetic resources. Users of genebanks should be in a position to select germplasm material based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic information among the global genepool. …”
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Runoff Estimation and Water Demand Analysis for Holetta River, Awash Subbasin, Ethiopia Using SWAT and CropWat Models by Tibebe, M., Melesse, A.M., Zemadim, Birhanu

“…The total water demand for the three major users was 0.313, 0.583, 1.004, 0.873, and 0.341 million cubic meters (MCM) from January to May, respectively. …”
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Investigating the use of high resolution multi-spectral satellite imagery for crop mapping in Nigeria crop and landuse classification using WorldView-3 high resolution multispectra... by Alabi, Tunrayo, Haertel, M., Chiejile, S.

“…For accuracy assessment, kappa coefficient, producer and user accuracies were used to evaluate the performance of all three supervised classifiers. …”
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Soil Best Bets Compendium by Sommer, Rolf, Godiah, David, Braslow, Juliet

“…Zero is used if the requirement does not apply. Users can also query the compendium, make comments, and – most importantly – add further best bets.…”
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A methodology for greenhouse gas emission and carbon sequestration assessments in agriculture: Supplemental materials for info series analyzing low emissions agricultural practices... by Grewer, Uwe, Bockel, Louis, Galford, Gillian L., Gurwick, Noel, Nash, Julie, Pirolli, Gillian, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…The methodology allows users to estimate (1) GHG impacts at project scale, (2) GHG emissions by agricultural practice, and (3) GHG emissions per unit of output (i.e., GHG emission intensity). …”
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Crop ontology: integration of standard variables by Valette, L., Pietragalla, J., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Afolabi, A., Boukar, O., Cannon, Steven B., Diers, D.W., Dreher, K.A., Gaur, Pooran M., Guerrero, Alberto F., Hash, C.T., Hualla, V., Inoussa, D., Kalberer, S.R., Kondombo-Barro, C.P., Kumar, S., López Montes, Antonio José, Menda, N., Nelson, R., Ofodile, S., Patil, S., Prasad, P., Rajendran, K., Rami, J.F., Rathore, A., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh, Reinhard Simon, Guvener Selim, Teme, N., Weltzien, Eva, Arnaud, Elizabeth, Shrestha, R.

“…This has led to a thorough revision of the structure of the Trait Dictionary (TD) template. The TD template is a user-friendly xls file that is used to submit terms to CO which are then stored in the IBP Breeding Management System and other information systems (NextGen, Agtrials…). …”
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Establishment of a cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) core collection based on agromorphological descriptors by Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Dumet, D., Ilona, Paul, Soyode, F., Franco, J.

“…The phenotypic diversity represented in this core collection will be a guide to users of cassava germplasm in their crop improvement programmes.…”
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Gamification of farmer-participatory priority setting in plant breeding: Design and validation of “AgroDuos” by Steinke, Jonathan, Etten, Jacob van

“…Participatory methods to characterize farmers’ needs and preferences play an important role in plant breeding to ensure that new varieties fulfill the needs and expectations of end users. Different farmer-participatory methods for priority setting exist, each one responding differently to trade-offs between various requirements, such as replicability, simplicity, or granularity of the results. …”
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Research on livestock, livelihoods and innovation by Thorne, Peter J., Conroy, C.

“…However, it can often help to generate research outputs that are much more focused on the needs of end-users in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs). …”
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From our perspective: developing printed extension materials with cocoa farmers in Ghana by David, S., Cobbah, E.A.

“…Typically, printed agricultural extension materials are developed by technical experts with little input from farmers, the end users. Materials developed in this way are often incomprehensible or confusing to farmers as they tend to contain too much information and use culturally inappropriate symbols and complex language. …”
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