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Co-diseñar un sistema de monitoreo y alerta temprana de hambre estacional relacionado a variabilidad climática en Guatemala by Muller, Ana, Coto, Allan, Gaytán, Ada, Girón, Estuardo, Granados, Andrea, Monzón, Marco, Portillo, Fernando, Etten, Jacob van

“…In Guatemala, seasonal acute food insecurity related to extended dry periods is a recurrent phenomenon. Public response is often too late and ineffective. …”
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Genomic resources to guide improvement of the shea tree by Hale, I., Ma, X., Melo, A.T.O., Padi, Francis K, Hendre, P.S., Kingan, S.B., Sullivan, S.T., Chen, S., Boffa, J.-M., Muchugi, Alice, Danquah, A., Barnor, M.T., Jamnadass, Ramni H., Peer, Y. van de, Deynze, A. van

“…In truth, shea’s extended juvenile period makes traditional breeding approaches untenable; but the opportunity for genome-assisted breeding is immense, provided the foundational resources are available. …”
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Dynamic guardianship of potato landraces by Andean communities and the genebank of the International Potato Center by Luttringhaus, S., Pradel, W., Suarez, V., Manrique, N., Anglin, Noelle L., Ellis, David, Hareau, G., Jamora, Nelissa, Smale, Melinda, Gómez, R.

“…Conclusions: Our study is the frst to apply an economic model to analyze the duration of in situ landrace cultivation by custodian farmers. …”
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Improving on-farm water management by introducing wetting front detectors to small scale irrigators in Ethiopia by Schmitter, Petra S., Haileslassie, Amare, Dessalegn, Yigsaw, Chali, A., Tilahun, S., Langan, Simon J., Barron, Jennie

“…Smallholder irrigation to improve food security in the dry season as well as economic and demographic growth within Ethiopia is developing rapidly. …”
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An EST-SSR based genetic linkage map and identification of QTLs for anthracnose disease resistance in water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) by Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Nwadili, C.O., Saski, C.A., Agre, A.P., Scheffler, Brian E., Augusto, J., López Montes, Antonio José, Onyeka, J.T., Kumar, P. Lava, Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit

“…QTL localization was based on phenotypic data collected over a 3-year period of inoculating the mapping population with the most virulent strain of C. gloeosporoides from West Africa. …”
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Reduction of imazalil doses for the control of citrus postharvest green and blue molds through the combination with sodium benzoate and heat by Palou, Lluís, García Rodríguez, Alfonso, Pérez-Gago, María B.

“…Green and blue molds, caused by the fungi Penicillium digitatum and P. italicum, respectively, are the most economically important citrus postharvest diseases in Mediterranean climate areas such as Spain. …”
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Los propietarios de tierra y la reforestación privada en América Central: factores que limitan y promueven el cultivo de árboles by Könönen, A.M., Leppänen, K.J.

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Aligning Potato Breeding Goals with Citizen Priorities: Insights from Tricot Approach in Nigeria by Sharma, K., Atieno, E., Mugo, J., Sousa, Kauê de, Etten, Jacob van, Nyawade, S.

“…They understood the long-term benefits of choosing genotypes that offer both economic returns and resilience in the face of changing market dynamics. …”
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Renbruksplan – från tanke till verklighet by Vestman, Hanna

Skogens struktur och ekonomi över 100 år med fast eller varierad skyddszon runt vattendrag by Jonsson, Anna, Grahn, Sofia

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Research-development partnerships for scaling complex innovation: Lessons from the Farmer Business School in IFAD-supported loan-grant collaborations in Asia by Prain, Gordon, Wheatly, C., Odsey, C., Verzola, L., Bertuso, A., Roa, J., Naziri, D.

“…The Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory, action learning process focused on product and business development, and like the Farmer Field School, is a complex, multi-dimensional innovation with the potential to benefit large numbers of farming households economically, socially and institutionally. Scaling this approach requires rethinking both innovation and scaling. …”
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Incidence and predictors of calf morbidity and mortality from birth to 6-months of age in dairy farms of northwestern Ethiopia by Alemu, Y.F., Jemberu, Wudu T., Mekuriaw, Zeleke, Abdi, R.D.

“…Among 439 calves enrolled for 6 months of follow-up period, a total of 141 morbidities and 54 mortality events were recorded. …”
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Exchange rate misalignment and its effects on agricultural producer support estimates: empirical evidence from India and China by Cheng, Fuzhi, Orden, David

“…There have been different degrees of exchange rate disequilibrium in the developing countries during transition or reform periods since the mid 1980s. The level of the exchange rate and its misalignment can have significant impacts on agricultural policy measures such as Producer Support Estimates (PSEs). …”
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Cold-tolerant and short-duration rice (Oryza sativa L.) for sustainable food security of the flash flood-prone Haor wetlands of Bangladesh by Hossain, Mobarak, Biswas, Partha, Islam, Mohammad Rafiqul

“…However, early sowing has a possibility of causing grain sterility due to cold spells when the booting and heading stages of rice inevitably coincide with the cold period between 15 January and 7 February. The minimum temperature in the Haor regions ranges from 11 to 15 °C during this time. …”
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A farm typology development cycle: From empirical development through validation, to large-scale organisational deployment by Manners, Rhys, Hammond, James, Umugabe, David Renaud, Sibomana, Milindi, Schut, Marc

“…The organisation then used the tools for a period of two years. Finally, the researchers interviewed representatives of the organisation to find out how the tools had been used. …”
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Growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing ram lambs fed sweet sorghum bagasse-based complete rations varying in roughage-to-concentrate ratios by Kumari, N.N., Reddy, Y.R., Blümmel, Michael, Nagalakshmi, D., Monika, T., Reddy, B.V.S., Reddy, C.R.

“…The results of the experiment indicated that SSB can be included at 60 % level in the complete diet for economical mutton production from growing Nellore × Deccani ram lambs.…”
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Effect of genetic improvement of sheep in Ethiopia: Development of a dynamic stochastic simulation herd model by Tadel, K.

“…Historical data of monthly rainfall for a period of 10 years and 4 years of monthly temperature data were used. …”
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Cost of doing a research: comparing participatory and conventional silviculture research in Nepal by Acharya, K, Goutam, K

“…The diverse needs of communities living in different climatic and ecological zones and under different socio-economic conditions have imposed a pattern of a multitude of localized forestry research studies in Nepal. …”
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Picturing impact of the PEDIGREA program: a case study from Indramayu, Indonesia by Wienarto, Nugroho, Kuswara, Engkus, Hakim, Arief

“…Other approaches are relying on aerial planning and interactive participation techniques, iterative appraisal approaches, and socio-economic impacts. Comparing these approaches reveals that a wide scope of options for monitoring impact is available. …”
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Waking the Sleeping Giant: Agricultural intensification, extensification or stagnation in Mali's Guinea Savannah by Ollenburger, M.H., Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Crane, Todd A., Sanogo, O.M., Giller, Kenneth E.

“…The World Bank argued that West Africa's Guinea Savannah zone forms part of “Africa's Sleeping Giant,” where increases in agricultural production could be an engine of economic growth, through expansion of cultivated land in sparsely populated areas. …”
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