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Data4Ag impacts for farmers and for policy por Addison, Chris

“…CTA's Data4Ag project has introduced digital solutions in Africa to assist farmers organisations in registering their members to offer targeted agricultural services. …”
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Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa por Pavelic, Paul, Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Favreau, G., Villholth, Karen G.

“…This paper presents a simple, generic groundwater-balance-based methodology that uses a set of type-curves to assist with decision making on the scope for developing sustainable groundwater irrigation supplies, and to help understand how cropping choices influence the potential areal extent of irrigation. …”
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Innovative haricot beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) seed system for smallholder farmers in Dale District, Southern Ethiopia: Experiences from IPMS por Yilma, Y., Berhe, Kahsay, Hoekstra, Dirk, Jaleta, Moti, Alemayehu, F., Gebrehawariat, K., Ayele, D.

“…To assist in this development, the Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project introduced a participatory market oriented value chain development approach with the key actors: farmers groups, the Woreda OoARD, farmers’ cooperative, Melkassa and Hawassa Agricultural Research Centres (ARC), and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). …”
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Lessons from irrigation investment experiences: cost-reducing and performance-enhancing options for Sub-Saharan Africa por Inocencio, Arlene B., Kikuchi, M., Merrey, Douglas J., Tonosaki, M., Maruyama, A., Jong, J. de, Sally, Hilmy, Penning de Vries, Frits W.T.

“…The study analyzes 314 irrigation projects implemented from 1967 to 2003 in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America funded (or assisted) by the World Bank, African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agriculture Development. …”
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Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture Framework Program por Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

“…Innovative and transformative measures are therefore urgently required to assist stakeholders in the sector across the agricultural value chain to cope with effects of current and projected change in climate patterns. …”
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Walking the tight rope of local conservation practices por Hussen, Mahamoud Hussein

“…For policy implications, the study revealed the vulnerability of the wildlife as development projects and human settlement increase in the area. …”
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Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions por Chazdon, R., Lindenmayer, D., Guariguata, Manuel R., Crouzeilles, R., Rey Benayas, J.M., Chavero, E.L.

“…Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. …”
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Toward the sequence-based breeding in legumes in the post-genome sequencing era por Varshney, Rajeev K., Pandey, Manish K., Bohra, Abhishek, Singh, Vikas K., Thudi, Mahendar, Saxena, Rachit K.

“…Although marker-assisted backcrossing and marker-assisted selection approaches have been used to develop superior lines in several cases, it is the need of the hour for continuous population improvement after every breeding cycle to accelerate genetic gain in the breeding programs. …”
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Bridging the rice yield gaps under drought: QTLs, genes, and their use in breeding programs por Sandhu, Nitika, Kumar, Arvind

“…These include the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for grain yield under drought as well as many agronomically important traits related to drought tolerance, marker-assisted pyramiding of genetic regions that increase yield under drought, development of efficient techniques for genetic transformation, complete sequencing and annotation of rice genomes, and synteny studies of rice and other cereal genomes. …”
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Optimizing Rice Crop Manager Odisha: AI-Driven Yield Prediction to compliment Extension using legacy data por Gakhar, Shalini, Bharti, Preeti

“…To address this, the Rice Crop Manager (RCM)—a web-based tool developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)—was deployed to assist farmers in making data-driven decisions. …”
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Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa por Nhamo, N., Chikoye, David, Gondwe, T.

“…Several steps are required to fully deploy novel agricultural technologies to millions of smallholder farmers and assist countries in southern Africa to attain the United Nation sustainable development goals on combating climate change and its impacts through climate smart solutions (Goal 13), eradication of poverty and hunger (Goal 1 and 2), creation of decent jobs (Goal 8), environmental protection (Goal 6 and 12), and provision of health (Goal 3) through agricultural enterprises. …”
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Community action for rural youth in Tanzania por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…This report comes from Arusha in northern Tanzania, where CADECT, a non-government organisation, is assisting young people and women through grassroots training, and group development. …”
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Multi-level participatory consultative approach for institutional change in river basins: Lessons from the Deduru Oya Case Study in Sri Lanka por Jinapala, K., Somaratne, Pallewatte G., Perera, L.R., Makin, Ian W., Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa

“…The study was funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to assist the five countries, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, China and Sri Lanka to work out methodologies and develop effective water management institutions (ADB-RETA 5812). …”
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Proceedings of the Regional Knowledge Forum on Drought: Earth Observation and Climate Services for Food Security and Agricultural Decision Making in South Asia and Southeast Asia,... por Khan, Mohammad Shahidul Haque, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is collaborating with meteorological and agricultural institutions in the Hindu Kush Himalaya through its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and the Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) initiatives to establish agricultural drought monitoring and early warning systems. …”
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Cassava breeding and cultivation challenges in Thailand: Past, present, and future perspectives por Kongsil, Pasajee, Ceballos, Hernan, Siriwan, Wanwisa, Vuttipongchaikij, Supachai, Kittipadakul, Piya, Phumichai, Chalermpol, Wannarat, Wannasiri, Kositratana, Wichai, Vichukit, Vichan, Sarobol, Ed, Rojanaridpiched, Chareinsak

“…Future directions for cassava breeding must include hybrid development, marker-assisted recurrent breeding, and gene editing, along with high-throughput phenotyping and flower induction. …”
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Market building for postharvest technology through largescale extension efforts por Baributsa, D., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Lowenberg-Deboer, J., Dabiré, C., Moussa, B., Coulibaly, O., Baoua, I.

“…Several research and development organizations assisted in awareness building activities todevelop the market and increase access. …”
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Steel, glass and interactions por Farrelly, Dermot

“…The building is now rented (in the main) to Schibsted, one of Scandinavia’s largest media concerns. The building developer and operator, Jernhusen, has engaged the services of an environmental advisor to assist their tenants in undertaking environmental actions, whilst at the same time the design process demonstrates differences to the norm. …”
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Options and strategies for the conservation of farm animal genetic resources: Report of an international workshop, AGROPOLIS, Montpellier, France, 7-10 November 2005 por Gibson, J., Gamage, S., Hanotte, Olivier H., Iñiguez, L., Maillard, J.C., Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Semambo, D., Toll, Jane

“…The Report will be finalized at the First International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources in September 2007, hosted by the Government of Switzerland. With the aim of assisting the international community in developing a global framework for the conservation of farm animal genetic resources and identifying priorities for action, the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), in association with FAO, AGROPOLIS, France, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany, convened an international workshop on Options and Strategies for the Conservation of Farm Animal Genetic Resources in November 2005, hosted by AGROPOLIS in Montpellier, France. …”
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Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture: Insights from the literature por McGuire, Erin, Rietveld, Anne M., Crump, Amanda, Leeuwis, Cees

“…Increasing use of an innovation, referred to as ‘scaling,' is critical to impact at a community or regional level, and is often seen as necessary to support Agriculture Research for Development (AR4D) outcomes (Sartas et al., 2020). Several scaling support tools and methodologies have been developed to assist researchers and practitioners in scaling processes. …”
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Evaluación Piloto de diagnóstico agronómico asistido por drones: Monitoreo de cultivo con drones en oriente y occidente de Guatemala, 2024 por Martinez, Emerson, Chavez, Mario, Navarro, Carlos

“…This work was presented during a results dissemination session of the report “Pilot Evaluation of Drone-Assisted Agronomic Diagnosis: Crop Monitoring with Drones in Eastern and Western Guatemala, 2024”, with the Association for Cooperation in Rural Development of the Western Region (CDRO) and the Association for the Integral Development of the Upper Region of Zacapa (ADIPAZ), Guatemala.…”
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