Search Results - Development assistance.

Extension and advisory services: The African renaissance by Zwane, E. M., Davis, Kristin E.

“…The importance of such services is promoted as a means of assisting marginalised farmers and encouraging countries to adopt "pro-poor" approaches to farmer development. …”
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Development of a cost-effective high-throughput mid-density 5K genotyping assay for germplasm characterization and breeding in groundnut by Pandey, Manish K., Sharma, Vinay, Khan, Aamir W., Pushpesh, Joshi, Gangurde, Sunil S., Bajaj, Prasad, Pasupuleti, Janila, Chitikineni, Annapurna, Bhat, Ramesh, Motagi, Babu N., Sangh, Chandramohan, Radhakrishnan, Thankappan, Bera, Sandip K., Gorjanc, Gregor, Gujjula, Krishna Reddy, Hall, Nathan, Carrasco, Claudio D., Kandalam, Arjun, Chandram, Srinivas, Varshney. Rajeev K.

“…The availability of foundational genomic resources such as reference genomes for diploid progenitors and cultivated tetraploids, offered substantial opportunities for genomic interventions, including the development of genotyping assays. Here, a cost-effective and high-throughput genotyping assay has been developed with 5,081 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) referred to as “mid-density assay.” …”
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Virtual potato crop modeling: A comparison of genetic coefficients of the DSSAT-SUBSTOR potato model with breeding goals for developing countries by Raymundo, R., Kleinwechter, U., Asseng, Senthold

“…Virtual crop modeling is the representation of future genetic improvements from plant breeding in crop growth simulation models through changes in genetic coefficients or other crop model parameters with the objective of analyzing ex-ante the impacts of improved traits on crop yields and assisting breeders in their breeding efforts. …”
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Development of breeding lines with three pyramided resistance genes that confer broad-spectrum bacterial blight resistance and their molecular analysis in rice by Suh, Jung-Pil, Jeung, Ji-Ung, Noh, Tae-Hwan, Cho, Young-Chan, Park, So-Hyun, Park, Hyun-Su, Shin, Mun-Sik, Kim, Chung-Kon, Jena, Kshirod K.

“…In this study, three resistance genes (Xa4 + xa5 + Xa21) were transferred from an indica donor (IRBB57), using a marker-assisted backcrossing (MAB) breeding strategy, into a BB-susceptible elite japonica rice cultivar, Mangeumbyeo, which is high yielding with good grain quality.Our analysis led to the development of three elite advanced backcross breeding lines (ABL) with three resistance genes by foreground and phenotypic selection in a japonica genetic background without linkage drag. …”
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Validation of a roadmap for mainstreaming nutrition-sensitive interventions at state level in Nigeria by Ezekannagha, O., Drimie, S., Fintel, D. von, Maziya-Dixon, Busie, Mbhenyane, X.

“…Background National programs are often developed with little consideration to the sub-national local factors that might affect program success. …”
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Rural population growth, agricultural change and natural resource management in developing countries: a review of hypotheses and some evidence from Honduras by Pender, John L.

“…The results support neo-Malthusian concerns about the effects of population growth on land degradation, but also provide some support to Boserupian predictions that population pressure will induce adoption of labor-intensive land improvements, collective action to manage natural resources, and organizational development. In general, however, the impacts of population pressure were found to be relatively small and other factors, including infrastructure development and technical assistance programs, had stronger impacts on agricultural change and natural resource management. …”
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AgriTech4Egypt Innovation Challenge: Bootcamp report by Zaccari, Claudia

“…The AgriTech4Egypt Innovation Challenge 2024 is a project designed to empower talented innovators and accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of early-stage agri-tech solutions that can create a more sustainable, efficient, and climate-resilient agriculture in Egypt, while aligning with the country’s 2030 Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). …”
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Pullet production and supply business development by women’s groups in selected kebeles of Dale pilot learning district (PLW): Experiences from IPMS by Yilma, K., Tegegne, Azage, Hoekstra, Dirk, Yigzaw, M.

“…The women were trained and developed their skills through their group structures. …”
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Aid effectiveness in poverty alleviation in a post-conflict, post-disaster situation: A case study of district Swat, Pakistan by Ali, Murad

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En ogräsfri växtföljd by Nilsson, Karin

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CS Dietary software system to support the entry, management, and processing of quantitative 24-hour dietary recall survey data by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…Software was developed by HarvestPlus and SerPro SA. In 2020, it was made freely available for download through Intake’s online resource library. …”
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Development of early maturing salt-tolerant rice variety KKL(R) 3 using a combination of conventional and molecular breeding approaches by Saminadane, Thirumeni, Geddam, Sathyadevi, Krishnaswamy, Paramasivam, Jothiganapathy, Karthick, Tamilselvan, Anandhan, Ramadoss, Bharathi Raja, Sri Hari Reddy, Patil, Singh, Uma Shankar, Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Platten, John Damien, Gregorio, Glenn B., Singh, Nagendra Kumar, Bisht, Deepak Singh, Kota, Suneetha, Ponnuvel, Senguttuvel, Guntupalli, Padmavathi

“…This study focuses on developing an early maturing seedling stage salinity tolerant rice variety by integrating conventional breeding methods with marker assisted breeding (MAB) approaches.Methods: Seedling-stage salinity tolerance Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) “Saltol” from the salt-tolerant parent FL478 was introduced into the high-yielding but salt-sensitive rice variety ADT 45. …”
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De novo transcriptome sequencing and SSR markers development for Cedrela balansae C.DC., a native tree species of northwest Argentina by Torales, Susana Leonor, Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro, Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto, Inza, Maria Virginia, Pomponio, Maria Florencia, Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen, Acuña, Cintia Vanesa, Zelener, Noga, Fornes, Luis Fernando, Hopp, Horacio Esteban, Paniego, Norma Beatriz, Marcucci Poltri, Susana Noemi

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World food strategy for the 1980s: context, objectives, and approach. by Mellor, John W.

“…Implementation of these efforts will require cooperation from developed and underdeveloped countries alike. Failure in the effort to close the food gap will lead to conflict between the developed countries and the Third World.…”
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Strengthening Rural Livelihoods Through Community Learning Centers in Northern Bangladesh by Humaira, Bushra, Miajy, Abdullah, Haque, Abdul, Ahmed, Sharif, Bhandari, Humnath

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A GIS-based methodological framework to identify superficial water sources and their corresponding conduction paths for gravity-driven irrigation systems in developing countries by Valencia Gómez, Jefferson, Monserrate Rojas, Fredy Alexander, Casteleyn, Sven, Bax, Vincent, Francesconi, Wendy, Quintero, Marcela

“…These results demonstrate AGRI’s potential to reduce time, costs and risk of failure associated with the development of low-cost irrigation systems, which becomes increasingly needed to support the livelihoods of some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.…”
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Effectiveness of current and alternative procurement modalities: An evaluation of the effectiveness of current and potential alternative grain procurement modalities, and developme... by Rashid, Shahidur, Mustafa, Shoumi, Kabir, Razin, Shaima, Nabila Afrin

“…Two key instruments of implementing this method would be Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) and the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP), which are tools available to the farmers. …”
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The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers’ wheat yield in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized control trial by Abate, Gashaw T., Bernard, Tanguy, de Brauw, Alan, Minot, Nicholas

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Knowledge and Data Sharing - Annual Technical Report 2021 by Tobon, Hector, Almanzar, Manuel, Ramírez, Margarita M., Tanaka, Kenji

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Report on mapping livelihood and nutrition in Nigeria using data from the national rural livelihoods survey and the national food consumption and nutrition survey by Maziya-Dixon, B.B., Okechukwu, R., Kormawa, P.M., Legg, C., Ofodile, S., Alabi, T.

“…Alleviation of these closely-related socioeconomic problems must be guided by knowledge of their spatial distribution and relationships to biophysical and development factors. Two country-wide surveys, one on rural livelihoods, poverty and food demand, and the other on food consumption and child nutrition, were carried out in Nigeria by IITA, and the results mapped in order to assist interpretation.The lack of reliable recent census statistics in Nigeria complicates the process of mapping socio-economic variables. …”
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