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Climate Smart Agriculture: Models for Empowering Women Livestock Producers by International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

“…The main objective of the project is to develop an evidence-base for sustainable outscaling of climate-resilient agricultural practices to enhance livelihood, resilience, and adaptive capacities particularly in the livestock sector. …”
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US food security and climate change: agricultural futures by Takle ES, Gustafson D, Beachy, Roger N., Nelson, Gerald C., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

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Plant defences for enhanced integrated pest management in tomato by Tortorici, Simona, Biondi, Antonio, Pérez-Hedo, Mertixell, Larbat, Romain, Zappala, Lucia

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Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia by Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H., Hernández, C.M., Larrahondo, N, Ospina, G.I., Restrepo M., José M., Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza, Tohme, Joseph M., Roca, W.

“…Developed through a two-phase participatory process by a group of women farmers, a non-governmental organization and International Center for Tropical Agriculture scientists in a farmers' community in the hillsides of southern Colombia, the project resulted in alternative, economical and readily available sources of tissue-culture material and equipment. …”
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New Rights for forest-based communities?: understanding processes of forest tenure reform by Larson, A.M., Barry, D.M., Dahal, G.R.

“…This suggests, at least in some ways, a marked departure from the historic trend towards centralizing. The project, led by the Center for International Forestry Research in coordination with the Rights and Resources Initiative in 2006-2008, sought to identify issues and concerns from the perspective of socially and economically vulnerable groups that were seeking rights reforms. …”
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Key messages from Safe Food, Fair Food: Food safety in informally marketed livestock products in sub-Saharan Africa by Makita, K., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Zewde, G., Kurwijila, Lusato R., Matusse, H., McCrindle, C.M.E., Tano-Debrah, K., Bonfoh, Bassirou, Costard, Solenne, Grace, Delia

“…The Safe Food Fair Food project funded by Germany was conducted in 8 SSA countries between 2008 and 2011 to develop capacity in participatory risk assessment to improve food safety while enhancing market access by smallholder farmers. …”
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Is there a space for medium-sized cassava seed growers in Nigeria? by Bentley, J.W., Nitturkar, H., Obisesan, D., Friedmann, M., Thiele, Graham

“…In 2016, a project, Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System in Nigeria (BASICS), started to encourage village farmers to certify and sell cassava seed. …”
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Tipologías de productores de piña (Ananas comosus (l.) Merr.) en el Departamento del Meta, Colombia by Miranda Salas, Tatiana Camila, Rodríguez Yzquierdo, Gustavo Adolfo, León Pacheco, Rommel Igor, Gómez Correa, Juan Camilo

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Utfodring av rovdjur i jakt- och viltturism by Cöster, Martina

“…Independent of who was interviewed they all thought that if the attraction was done correctly, didn’t hurt anyone and the society it was accepted, there should not be any problem to develop the wildlife tourism. The conclusion from this project is that the wildlife feeding tourism can expand in Sweden in the coming years, however we have to evaluate the effect on wildlife.…”
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Trakthyggesfria skogsbrukssätt : kunskap, förutsättningar och attityder by Hagegård, Erika

“…The Swedish National Board of Forestry has therefore initiated a project in order to investigate and develop Continuous Cover Forestry (CFF). …”

Animal insurance and farmer's behavior in Vietnam by Kono, H., Kubota, S., Senbokuya, Y., Makita, K., Nishida, T., Tran, M.H.

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Foreign direct investments under political uncertainty : a case study of crop production in Ukraine by Valdenfeldt, Anastasiia

Estimating real snakebite incidence in Colombia by using mathematical modelling and statistical inference by Bravo Vega, Carlos, Renjifo Ibañez, Camila, Santos Vega, Mauricio, Leon Nuñez, Leonardo Jose, Angarita Sierra, Teddy, Cordovez, Juan Manuel

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Enhancing irrigation management: Unsupervised machine learning coupled with geophysical and multispectral data for informed decision-making in rice production by Chaali, Nesrine, Ramírez Gomez, Carlos Manuel, Jaramillo Barrios, Camilo Ignacio, Garr´e, Sarah, Barrero, Oscar, Ouazaa, Sofiane, Calderon Carvajal, John Edinson

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Rentabilidad y beneficios socioeconómicos del Manejo Extractivista de Madera Caída (Proyecto REMAC), Península de Osa, Costa Rica by Barrantes Arias, Flory P.

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¿Cómo los consumidores valoran atributos de calidad de carne bovina y su disposición a pago? by Barragán Hernández, Wilson Andrés, Mahecha Ledesma, Liliana, Olivera Ángel, Martha, Angulo Arrízala, Joaquín

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Impact of veterinary assistance on the health of working horses in Nicaragua by Willgert, Elina

“…Working horses in developing countries are mostly used for transportation. …”
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A cost benefit analysis of bioethanol production from cereals in Sweden by Larsson, Johanna

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CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology: Technical report from the Kenya End-of-Initiative Results Dissemination Workshop by Adoyo, Beatrice, Awiti, Alex, Kuria, Anne, Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Anyango, Edith, Fuchs, Lisa Elena, Guettou Djurfeldt, Nadia, Bolo, Peter, Wanyama, Rosina, Korir, Hezekiah, Nyawira, Sylvia, Onyango, Kevin

“…The findings underscored agroecology as an economically viable initiative with the potential to enhance resilient and inclusive food systems. …”
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The Plant Genome special section: Grain quality and nutritional genomics for breeding next‐generation crops by Pandey, Manish K., Mir, Reyazul Rouf, Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…By 2050, the world's population is expected to reach 9.8 billion according to United Nations predictions (https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-98-billion-2050-and-112-billion-2100). …”
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