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Conserving medicinal plants in Ghana by Owusu-Afriyie, George

“…George Owusu-Afriyie describes how BG-BASE, a database program designed to manage information on botanical collections, is helping to conserve medicinal plants in Ghana.…”
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Enteric methane mitigation strategies for ruminant livestock systems in the Latin America and Caribbean region: A meta-analysis by Souza Congio, Guilhermo Francklin de, Bannink, André, Mayorga Mogollón, Olga Lucía, Latin America Methane Project Collaborators, Arango, Jacobo, Gaviria Uribe, Xiomara

“…Adequate strategies of grazing management under continuous and rotational stocking decreased CH4 emission per ADG (CH4IGain) by 22 and 35%, while increasing ADG by 22 and 71%, respectively. …”
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The species-specific crop ontology (Generation Challenge Programme): Application and integration into the reference plant trait ontology to enable data mining on phenotypes. by Arnaud, Elizabeth, Shrestha, R., Kulakow, Peter A., Bakare, M., López Montes, Antonio José, Ofodile, S., Reddy T.P., Prasad, P., Shah, Tushaar, Hash, C.T., Weltzien, Eva, Sissoko, I., Guerrero, Alberto F., Simon, R., Borja Borja, N.F., Ramil, M., Matteis, L., Skofic, M., Hazekamp, T., McLaren, G., Cooper, Laurel D., Jaiswal, P., Menda, N., Nelson, R., Grant, D., Bastow, R., Mueller, L., Rami, J.F.

“…The CO acts as a trait name server for various sites and databases: the Genotyping Data Management System (GDMS); the cassava database at Cornell University (http://cassavadb.org); Agtrials, the Global Repository for Evaluation Trials of Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), a CGIAR Research Program (http://agtrials.org ); and the EU-Sol BreedDB website (https://www.eu-sol.wur.nl/). …”
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Evaluating climate hazard hotspots and hazard impacts in Sri Lanka: an analysis of historically reported data by Alahacoon, Niranga, Thathsarani, Geethya, Sivananthan, Piriyanka, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…This study underscores the urgent need for effective disaster management strategies to address the challenges posed by these recurrent hazards in Sri Lanka.…”
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Exploring and analysing practices and pathways to improve resource use efficiency of crop-livestock farming systems in North-western Bangladesh by Yifan Wang, Groot, Jeroen C.J., López Ridaura, Santiago, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Specifically, options to improve manure management and green fodder crop technologies were assessed. …”
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Actividades con germoplasma de frijol. Manejo de datos by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…During early 1986 computer programs were written to manage the expt. part of the bean database. In mid-year the programs were redesigned and recompiled to better access the data. …”
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Papua New Guinea food price bulletin: December 2020 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Schmidt, Emily

“…More consistent and timely price data collection and database management is necessary for informative food market analysis. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Thirty-Ninth Meeting, 17-25 March 1986: Report of the Meeting by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…TAC discussed the external program and management reviews of ILRAD, concluding that the center should maintain a sharp focus on theileriosis and trypanosomiasis. …”
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Assessment of Land Degradation in Semi-Arid Zone of Central Tanzania by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, University of Bonn

“…Data were recorded using the mobile-based KoboCollect toolbox and transmitted to a cloud database for storage and descriptive analysis.…”
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Dynamic and scalable framework for flood early warning: Zambia case study by Padhee, Suman Kumar, Alahacoon, Niranga, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…This framework aims to bolster resilience and promote proactive disaster management through the AWARE platform, with the potential scalability across Africa and Asia.…”
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Using plant functional attributes to quantify site productivity and growth patterns in mixed forests by Vanclay, J.K., Gillison, A.N., Keenan, R.N.

“…Forest growth models form one of several important prerequisites for sustainable management. The complexity of tropical moist forest means that there is often little objective information to classify sites and species for growth modelling and yield prediction. …”
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A review of the evolution and state of transboundary freshwater treaties by Giordano, Mark, Drieschova, Alena, Duncan, J.A., Sayama, Y., Stefano, L. de, Wolf, A.T.

“…In terms of content, treaties have shifted from an earlier focus on regulation and development of water resources to the management of resources and the setting of frameworks for that management. …”
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Biomass of timber species in Central American secondary forests: Towards climate change mitigation through sustainable timber harvesting by Souza Oliveira, Maïri, Finegan, Bryan, Casanoves, Fernando, Delgado, Diego, Sepulveda, Norvin, Aguilar Porras, Adriana, Chamorro, María Alejandra, Morales Aymerich, Jean Pierre, Ngo Bieng, Marie Ange

“…Sustainable management of secondary forests for timber production offers the opportunity to combine nature-based climate change mitigation with direct improvement of human livelihoods in the tropics, but this dual potential has rarely been explored. …”
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CapFor: Una experiencia exitosa de cooperación internacional entre CATIE y METLA by Mery, Gerardo

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Updated stakeholder map for Ethiopia by Mengesha, Belay Terefe

“…It brings together all the stakeholders working on food systems issues in a so-called ‘living’ database that can be used to quickly identify potential stakeholders. …”
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Contributing to the scientific literature: citation analysis of CIFOR publications by Angelsen, A., Aryal, B.

“…Out of the 1437 publications registered in CIFOR’s publication database up until May 2004, 24 % have been cited in scientific journals. …”
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Report of the Eighth Meeting of the CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee by CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee

“…It expressed agreement with most of the recommendations of the external review of the SGRP, called attention to resource implications, and highlighted the need for a database of relevant national policies and laws. It supported in principle the proposal of the System Review concerning the concept of integrated gene management, and urged rapid creation of a central advisory and referral service dealing with legal and contractual aspects of IPR. …”
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Digital solutions to transform agriculture: lessons and experiences in Ethiopia by Tamene, Lulseged D., Abera, Wuletawu, Erkossa, Teklu

“…Taking advantage of advances in data acquisition, storage, management and analysis, the coalition will soon develop site-specific agroadvisory services. …”
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Rice yield gaps and nitrogen-use efficiency in the Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: Evidence based insights from heterogeneous farmers’ practices by Nayak, Harisankar, Silva, ‪João Vasco, Parihar, Chiter Mal, Kakraliya, S., Krupnik, Timothy J., Bijarniya, Deepak, Jat, Mangi Lal, Sharma, Parbodh Chander, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Sidhu, Harminder Singh, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur

“…N partial factor productivity (PFP-N) was 45–50 kg grain kg−1 N for fields with efficient N management and approximately 20% lower for the fields with inefficient N management. …”
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Analysing climate impacts on insect pests using Phenology Modelling and GIS implemented in the ILCYM Software. by Kroschel, Jürgen, Tonnang, Henri E.Z., Juarez, H., Le Ru, B., Hanna, R.

“…Preliminary results will be presented; the applied methodology is proposed as a very helpful tool for adaptation planning in integrated pest management.…”
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