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The cultural economy of human waste reuse: Perspectives from peri-urban Karnataka, India por Burt, Z., Prasad, C. S. S., Drechsel, Pay, Ray, I.

“…We model farmowners and farmworkers separately, as the choice to use FSF as an employer versus as an employee is fundamentally different. …”
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Woody species diversity and coffee production in remnant semi-natural dry Afromontane Forest in Zegie Peninsula, Ethiopia por Belay, B., Zewdie, S., Mekuria, Wolde, Abiyu, A., Amare, D., Woldemariam, T.

“…The majority (81.4%) of respondents put Ehretia cymosa, Albizia schimperiana and Millettia ferruginea as their first choice in coffee production. Timber and fuelwood extraction for the market is the main factor currently threatening Zege forest. …”
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Progeny fitness determines the performance of the parasitoid Therophilus javanus, a prospective biocontrol agent against the legume pod borer por Souna, D.A., Bokonon-Ganta, A.H., Ravallec, M., Alizannon, M., Srinivasan, R., Pittendrigh, B.R., Volkoff, A.N., Tamo, Manuele

“…The parasitoid preference for the five larval instars of M. vitrata and their influence on progeny sex ratio were assessed together with the impact of larval host age at the time of oviposition on development time, mother longevity and offspring production. In a choice situation, female parasitoids preferred to oviposit in the first three larval instars. …”
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Entrepreneurial intention among rural youth in Moroccan Agricultural Cooperatives: the future of rural entrepreneurship por Bouichou, E.H., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Allali, K., Bouayad, A., Fadlaoui, A.

“…Furthermore, we build on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate and explain entrepreneurial intention among the rural youth members of agricultural cooperatives, and identify the vulnerabilities and factors that influence the choice or decision-making between permanent membership at the cooperative and an entrepreneurial career. …”
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Income mobility in diversified CSA households of Nyando Basin, South Western Kenya por Njogu, Josephine, Busienei, John, Gathiaka, John, Karuku, George N, Wensenbeeek, Lia

“…Education, age and household size were noteworthy aspects that influenced the choice of livelihood diversification strategies there were gender differences in sources of contributions to household transactions whereby women mainly relied on Gifts/Loans/Credit/Advances while sales of goods and services were exhibited in men. …”
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Correction to: Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: the example of the variety ‘Victoria’ por Bernal-Galeano, V., Norton, G., Ellis, David, Anglin, Noelle L., Hareau, Guy, Smale, Melinda, Jamora, Nelissa, Alwang, J., Pradel, W.

“…After publication in volume 12, issue 5, page 959–973 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. …”
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Correction to: Bioengineering potato plants to produce benzylglucosinolate for improved broad-spectrum pest and disease resistance por González Romero, M.E., Rivera, C., Cancino, K., Geu-Flores, F., Cosio, E.G., Ghislain, M., Halkier, B.A.

“…With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 19 May 2021 to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. …”
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Impact of climate variability on internal migration in the Philippines during 2005 – 2010 por Weinreb, Alex, Stecklov, Guy, Arslan, Aslihan, Molina, Luis, Grosjean, Godefroy

“…Understanding how these changes may shape human mobility is key to effective policy design to protect livelihoods and establish migration as a choice rather than necessity. This report contributes to the discourse on climate change and internal migration linkages in the Philippines in three important ways. …”
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Pathways from livestock to improved human nutrition: lessons learned in East Africa por Flax, V.L., Ouma, Emily A., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Omosa, Esther B., Girard, A.W., Jensen, Nathaniel D., Dominguez-Salas, Paula

“…Eight Livestock CRP projects were reviewed, including five integrated livestock and human nutrition projects, two studies on drivers of food choice, and one study to develop and test a tool to measure nutrition outcomes among pastoralists. …”
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The role of climate forecasts in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from participatory research in two communities in Senegal por Roudier, P., Muller, B., D'Aquino, P., Roncoli, C., Soumaré, M.A., Batté, L., Sultan, B.

“…Realization of potential advantages appears associated with a context where there is greater varietal choice and options for intensification.…”
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Smallholder farmers’ preferences for sustainable intensification attributes in maize production: Evidence from Ghana por Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Oyinbo, O., Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, Nurudeen, A.R., Kizito, Fred, Boyubie, B.

“…Employing a discrete choice experiment to generate over 12,500 observations from a sample of about 700 maize-producing households in northern Ghana, we analyze farmers' preferences with respect to five domains of sustainable intensification including productivity, economic, human, environmental, and social conditions. …”
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Antimicrobial usage in smallholder poultry production in Nigeria por Bamidele, Oladeji, Amole, Tunde A., Oyewale, A.O., Bamidele, O.O., Yakubu, A., Ogundu, E.U., Ajayi, O.F., Hassan, A.W.

“…Gender (χ2 = 9.30, p = 0.01), and location (χ2 = 216.86, p ≤ 0.001), influenced farmers’ choice of methods for bird treatment. Education (odds ratio [OR] odds ratio [OR] 3.06, 95% CI 2.10–4.44), income (OR 1.99, 95% CI 1.10–3.59) and management system (OR 1.97, CI% 1.1–3.45) were most associated with antimicrobial use. …”
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Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective por Sobratee, N., Davids, R., Chinzila, C. B., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Scheelbeek, P., Modi, Albert Thembinkosi, Dangour, Alan D., Slotow, R.

“…Using the systems thinking approach, three sub-systems, namely access to dietary diversity, sustainable beneficiation of natural capital, and ‘food choice for well-being’, highlighted the main forces governing the current context, and future interventions of the project. …”
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Farmer Perceptions Related to Potato Production and Late Blight Management in Two Communities in the Peruvian Andes por Pérez, W., Forbes, G., Arias, R., Pradel, W., Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Andrade-Piedra, J.L.

“…Farmers perception regarding potato production with particular emphasis on management practices for LB was surveyed in two communities in the Peruvian highlands using a questionnaire with 25 questions, many with multiple choice questions. In the village of Paucartambo, 84 women and 485 men of different ages participated in the survey, while in the village of Ulcumayo, there were 146 women and 396 men, also of different ages. …”
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Screening Upland Varieties of NERICA and its Parents for Resistance to Stalk-eyed Fly, Diopsis sp. (Diptera, Diopsidae) in Benin por Togola, A., Nwilene, F.E., Agbaka, A., Degila, F., Tolulope, A., Chougourou, D.

“…In this experiment, the adult infestation appeared to be more realistic than infestation with eggs because it is a free choice method in which pest pressure is weak and where varieties can demonstrate their real behaviour.…”
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Willingness to Pay for Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato Juice: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Consumers in Kenya por Owuor, Antonate Akinyi, Otieno, David Jakinda, Okello, J.J., Oluoch-Kosura, Willis

“…In order to fill this knowledge gap, the current study assessed consumers' willingness to pay for OFSP juice attributes in rural and urban areas using choice experiment approach. Results showed that on average, for each liter of OFSP juice, rural consumers were willing to pay premiums of USD0.58, 0.39, 0.66, 0.75 and 0.72 respectively for the juice with OFSP only or that with OFSP and lemon as opposed to that with OFSP and mango; OFSP juice with additives; origin labeling of the OFSP juice and; joint inspection and certification of the OFSP juice rather than public inspection and certification. …”
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Lack of association between fluconazole susceptibility and ERG11 nucleotide polymorphisms in Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates from Uganda por Atim, Priscilla Belbir, Meya, David B., Gerlach, Elliot S., Muhanguzi, Dennis, Male, Allan, Kanamwanji, Benedict, Nielsen, Kirsten

“…Fluconazole is the drug of choice for cryptococcal meningitis (CM) monoprophylaxis in resource-limited settings such as Uganda. …”
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Screening of Vigna unguiculata (L.) WALP. accessions from Togo for their reaction to Callosobruchus maculatus F por Affram, E.I., Adetimirin, Victor O., Fatokun, C., Boukar, O.

“…A total of 200 cowpea accessions from the five regions of Togo and five checks were screened for resistance to C. maculatus using a no-choice assay. The experiment was laid out in a completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. …”
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Report of the global online survey to identify key knowledge and capacity gaps on diagnostics and surveillance of pests & diseases in targeted countries por Carvajal-Yepes, Mónica, Cuervo, Maritza, Kreuze, Jan F., Alakonya, Amos, Kumar, P. Lava, Onaga, Geoffrey, Dawit, Woubit, Castillon, Martina, Kumari, Safaa, Sharma, Rajan, Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Bui, Trang, Johnson, Vincent

“…The questionnaire consisted of 43 open-ended, single and multiple-choice questions. It was divided into three parts: the first includes questions to collect general information (Institution, country, gender, age group, position, scientific level and role). …”
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Population genomics unravels the Holocene history of bread wheat and its relatives por Zhao, X., Guo, Y., Kang, L., Yin, C., Bi, A., Xu, D., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Xu, J., Xu, S., Song, X., Zhang, M., Li, Y., Kear, P., Wang, J., Liu, Z., Fu, X., Lu, F.

“…By contrast, the cultivated relatives of bread wheat experienced a population decline by ~82% over the past ~2,000 yr due to the food choice shift of humans. Further biogeographical modelling predicted a continued population shrinking of many bread wheat relatives in the coming decades because of their vulnerability to the changing climate. …”
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