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Crops that feed the world 10: Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security by Shiferaw, Bekele, Smale, Melinda, Braun, Hans-Joachim, Duveiller, Etienne, Reynolds, Mathew, Muricho, Geoffrey

“…Wheat is fundamental to human civilization and has played an outstanding role in feeding a hungry world and improving global food security. The crop contributes about 20 % of the total dietary calories and proteins worldwide. …”
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Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade by Sotiropoulos, Alexandros G., Arango-Isaza, Epifanía, Ban, Tomohiro, Barbieri, Chiara, Bourras, Salim, Cowger, Christina, Czembor, Paweł C., Ben-David, Roi, Dinoor, Amos, Ellwood, Simon R., Graf, Johannes, Hatta, Koichi, Helguera, Marcelo, Wicker, Thomas

“…Thus, although mildew spreads by wind regionally, our results indicate that humans drove its global spread throughout history and that mildew rapidly evolved through hybridization.…”
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Managing transboundary waters in extreme environments: the role of international actors in Africa by Giordano, Mark, Lautze, Jonathan F.

“…We then examine how the global norms now mentioned in African law, in particular equity in water allocation, have actually influenced agreement content. …”
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Diagnóstico histórico y socio económico para la comprensión de los procesos de cambio en la Comarca Andina del paralelo 42° by Madariaga, Marta Cecilia, Lopez, Silvana

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A global analysis of the impact of zero‐tillage on soil physical condition, organic carbon content, and plant root response by Mondal, Surajit, Chakraborty, Debashis, Bandyopadhyay, Kalikinkar, Aggarwal, Pramila, Rana, Dharamvir Singh

“…However, the impact varies across climates, over the ZT history, cropping systems, and soil depths. A meta‐analysis was performed, based on 4,131 paired data from 522 studies spread globally, to evaluate the effect of ZT in comparison to conventional tillage, on soil physical condition (bulk density; mean weight diameter of aggregates; field capacity water content; and steady‐state infiltration rate), soil organic carbon (SOC) content, and the root response (root length density). …”
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Case for local forest management: environmental services, internationalisation of costs and markets by Nathan, D., Kelkar, G.

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An assessment of the ex-post socio-economic impacts of global rinderpest eradication: Methodological issues and applications to rinderpest control programs in Chad and India by Rich, Karl M., Roland-Holst, D., Otte, J.

“…However, rinderpest is just one of two diseases that has been successfully eradicated globally. A major gap in the history of rinderpest concerns the socio-economic impacts of its control and eradication. …”
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The political, social and economic context of changing water policy in South Africa: post-1994 by van Koppen, Barbara, Schreiner, B., Fakir, S.

“…Many concepts that would globally be seen as 'best practice' Integrated Water Resource Management according to the Dublin principles of 1992 originate in that era. …”
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Impact of genetic ancestry on the distribution of interferon-λ4 RS12979860 polymorphism in a global population of Buenos Aires, Argentina = Impacto de la ancestría genética en la d... by Mansilla, Florencia Celeste, Avena, Sergio, Dejean, Cristina, Turco, Cecilia Soledad, Capozzo, Alejandra

“…Here we characterize for the first time the distribution of rs12979860 genotypes in a sample of the global population of Buenos Aires, Argentina, assessing its association with European, Native American and African parental components. …”
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Trade: The free flow of goods and food security and nutrition by Martin, Will, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The benefits of international trade are embedded in our everyday lives, our meals have been shaped by globalization, and many farmers profit from export markets for their products. …”
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Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990 - 2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 by Vos, T., Flaxman, A.D., Naghavi, M., Lozano, R., Michaud, C., Ezzati, M., Shibuya, K.

“…BACKGROUND: Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies done in 1990 and 2000 have been the only studies to quantify non-fatal health outcomes across an exhaustive set of disorders at the global and regional level. …”
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Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network by Gomes-da-Silva, Janaina, Filardi, Fabiana L.R., Barbosa, María Regina V., Baumgratz, José Fernando A., Bicudo, Carlos E.M., Cavalcanti, Taciana B., Coelho, Marcus A.N., Costa, Andrea F., Costa, Denise P., Couto Dalcin, Eduardo, Labiak, Paulo, Lima, Haroldo C., Lohmann, , Lúcia G., Maia, Leonor C., Mansano, Vidal F., Menezes, Mariângela, Morim, Marli P., Moura, Carlos Wallace N., Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Peralta, Denilson F., Prado, Jefferson, Roque, Nádia, Stehmann, João Renato, Sylvestre, Lana S., Trierveiler-Pereira, Larissa, Walter, Bruno M.T., Zimbrão, Geraldo, Forzza, Rafaela C., Morales, Matias

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Desarrollo del Capitalismo en Salta. La conformación del Complejo Agroindustrial Tabacalero en el Valle de Lerma, provincia de Salta en la segunda mitad del siglo XX by Rodriguez Faraldo, Marcelo Armando

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Evaluación del cumplimiento de pagos frente a la emergencia sanitaria, caso Caja Arequipa- agencia sede Tingo María – 2020 by Velásquez Flores, Lorena Alexandra

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Reproductive seasonality in African ungulates in relation to rainfall by Ogutu, Joseph O., Piepho, Hans-Peter, Dublin, Holly T.

“…The interaction of the rainfall influence with life-history traits and other factors leads to wide interspecific and regional variation. …”
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International waters: Identifying basins at risk by Wolf, Aaron T., Yoffe, Shira B., Giordano, Mark

“…Finally, recognizing that history-based indicators may lose validity over time in a rapidly changing world, we ask, “what about the future, which may look nothing like the past,” and focus on four topics: new technologies for negotiation and management; globalization, privatization and the WTO; the geopolitics of desalination; and the changing sources of water and the changing nature of conflict.…”
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Livet i mellanrummen : vardagslivet i en småort by Botvidsson, Viktor

Historical environmental change in Africa drives divergence and admixture of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: a precursor to successful worldwide colonization? by Bennett, K.L., Shija, F., Linton, Y., Misinzo, G., Kaddumukasa, M., Djouaka, R.F., Anyaele, O., Harris, Angela, Irish, S., Hlaing, T., Prakash, A., Lutwama, J., Walton, C.

“…Increasing globalization has promoted the spread of exotic species, including disease vectors. …”
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Institutional models for accelerating agricultural commercialization: Evidence from maize, cotton and horticulture in Zambia, 1965–2012 by Chapoto, Antony, Haggblade, Steven, Hichaambwa, Munguzwe, Kabwe, Stephen, Longabaugh, Steven, Sitko, Nicholas J., Tschirley, David

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