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Fostering cross-program learning and experience sharing: Key take-aways from a recent Africa RISING Program exchange por Mekonnen, Kindu, Odhong, Jonathan, Ofori-Duah, Wilhelmina

“…On 17 – 21 June 2019, activity sites in northern Ghana played host to a delegation of 40 project partners drawn from each of the 3 regional Africa RISING projects in East and Southern Africa, West Africa and the Ethiopian Highlands. …”
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Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors por Dompreh, E.B., Asare, R., Gasparatos, A.

“…This perception mapping exercise elicits and synthesizes the perceptions of the main relevant stakeholder about the drivers, impacts, and challenges of cocoa and oil palm certification in Ghana. Through an institutional analysis, we identify the main stakeholders and elicit their perceptions through 36 expert interviews. …”
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Optimizing the performance of cattle fattening to rescue drought-hit farmers in Senegal por Sow, Fafa, Worou, Nadine, Faye, Aliou, Houessionon, Prosper, Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…AICCRA has teams in six countries: Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia, who work in four key areas – knowledge, partnerships, innovation and gender and social inclusion.…”
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Breeding in Africa for Africa por International Potato Center

“…Genetic gains of 0.3 t/ha/year in storage root yield of released varieties over the years were found across programs in Ghana, Mozambique and Peru. Two improved data collection, storage and analysis tools were introduced to the breeding community of practice: Highly Interactive Data Analysis and Productivity Tools for Breeding (HIDAP) and Sweetpotatobase.…”
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Byte by byte: Policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies por Malabo Montpellier Panel

“…The case study analysis—covering Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal—supports recommendations for public and private sector innovations to foster digitalization for growth and competitiveness in Africa’s agricultural value chains.…”
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Measuring food policy research capacity: Indicators and Typologies por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…Our Food Policy Research Capacity Index, constructed using measures of human capacity (PhD full-time equivalent researchers per million rural residents), human capacity productivity (publications per PhD full-time equivalent researcher), and strength of institutions (the government effectiveness pillar of the Worldwide Governance Indicators), showed substantial variation across countries, with the Republic of South Africa, Colombia, and Ghana scored far higher than countries with similarly sized rural populations such as Liberia, Laos, Burundi, and Afghanistan.…”
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The West African Semiarid Tropics por Matlon, Peter J.

“…The area encompasses all of Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Cape Verde; major southern portions of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger; and the northern portions of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. Except for Senegal, all are classified by the World Bank (1981b) as among the poorest third of the world's developing countries, with mean per capita incomes of $320 or less. …”
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Microempresarias procesan yuca en Ecuador por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Particular reference is made to the San Vicente de Bijahual association, which will test CIAT technology based on sedimentation canals for starch production. Major results of the project are the changes generated in knowledge, aptitudes, and attitudes of both men and women involved in the project. …”
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Jumpstarting Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa through Diversified Markets por Abidin, P.E., Some, K., Trucker, J., Kiger, B., Acheremu, K., Amankwaah, V.A., Amagloh, F., Amoaful, E.F., Njoku, J.

“…This flyer describes the objectives, activities, and progress made in implementing a three-year project that targets informal and formal orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) markets in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso between June 2014 and July 2015. …”
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"Ti Na Nyang" – "We Can" por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Braslow, Juliet, Lolig, Victor, Florence, Anfaara, Snyder, Katherine A., Dittoh, Saa, Atindana, Sandra

“…This participatory video titled “We Can” was filmed, produced, and directed by a group of 11 farmers and community members from Damolgo and Sekoti, Ghana. With this video they want to communicate the message: ‘we can use our combined knowledge to address the land management challenges we face.’ …”
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Use of Tomato (Lycopersicon-Esculentum) Seedlings to Detect Bensulfuron and Quinclorac Residues in Water por Gómez-De-Barreda, Diego, Lorenzo Rueda, Elena, Carbonell, Emilio A., Cases, B., Munoz, Niceto

“…Albufera water, sampled at three sites during 1991 and one during 1992 in the irrigation network canals caused different tomato main root length responses.…”
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Insectos arañas y otros artrópodos presentes en las fincas bananeras de Urabá - Antioquia por Arango Arango, Lina Amparo, Quiroz Muñoz, Jhon Alveiro, Alvarez Ortiz, Juán Esteban, Colonia García, Olga Cecilia

“…En el "Eje bananero la gran extensión de este monocultivo, las prácticas agrícolas, el uso de agroquímicos, la construcción de canales de drenaje, entre otros a relegado la riqueza de especies a las zonas donde existe vegetación diferente como las zonas de protección de los cauces naturales, los alrededores de las construcciones civiles donde se han adelantado programas de ornamentación con especies vegetales, linderos reforestados y los escasos relictos boscosos que aun sobreviven en ciertos sectores.…”
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Participación en Tercer Congreso Internacional de Genómica de Rosáceas

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Protocol for quantifying porosity percentage in plant tissues por Restrepo García, Ana María

“…This methodology implies a clear vision of the anatomical structure but normally is time consuming and labour-intensive due cutting of material (Visser & Bögemann, 2003). On the other hand, there are other methodologies to calculate the percentage of porosity by weighing plant material before and after de the air canals of the plant are filled with water, allowing a faster way to process samples, and reducing the amount of material examine under microscope (Visser & Bögemann, 2003). …”
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Summary of CPWF Research in the Ganges River Basin por CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…In most polders the primary limiting factors are poor water management due to the lack of systematic operation of sluice gates; lack of separation of lands of varying elevations; and siltation of the irrigation and drainage canals within polders. …”
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Número especial da Esporo: Sistemas de mercados estruturados: Uma nova visão do comércio por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Para os agricultores beneficiarem das oportunidades resultantes da procura crescente de alimentos por parte das populações urbanas, os canais de marketing entre as zonas rurais e as cidades têm de melhorar significativamente.…”
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Genomic prediction unifies animal and plant breeding programs to form platforms for biological discovery por Hickey, J.M., Chiurugwi, T., Mackay, I., Powell, Wayne, Eggen, A., Kilian, Andrzej, Jones, Christopher S., Canales, C., Grattapaglia, D., Bassi, Filippo, Atlin, G., Gorjanc, G., Dawson, I., Rabbi, Ismail Y., Ribaut, J.M., Rutkoski, J., Benzie, John A.H., Lightner, J., Mwacharo, Joram M., Parmentier, J., Robbins, K., Skot, L., Wolfe, M., Rouard, M., Clark, M., Amer, P., Gardiner, Peter R., Hendre, P., Mrode, Raphael A., Sivasankar, Shoba, Rasmussen, S., Groh, S., Jackson, V., Thomas, W., Beyene, Y.

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Innovacion para el Desarrollo de Cadenas de Café Inclusivas Sostenible y la Diversificación por Canales, Ernesto, Espinal, Alberto, Rivera, Jairo, Hernández, Vicente, Torres, Santos, Luna, Nila del Socorro, Hernández, Víctor, González, Nereyda, Chavarría, María, Moncada, Mario, Ramos, Bonifacio, Ramos, Trinidad, Belén, Yaren, Moncada, Dunia, Jarquín, Félix, Salguera, Juana, Overaas, Ole, Gutiérrez, Isabel

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Science-policy interactions for climate-smart agriculture uptake: lessons learnt from national science-policy dialogue platforms in West Africa por Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T., Totin, Edmond, Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Thornton, Philip K., Karbo, Naaminong, Sogoba, Bougouna, Dieye, Bounama

“…However, connecting science with policy has always been a challenge for both scientists and policymakers. In Ghana, Mali and Senegal, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) supported the creation of a multi-stakeholder national science-policy dialogue platforms on climate-smart agriculture (NSPDP-CSA) to use scientific evidence to create awareness on climate change impacts on agriculture and advocate for the mainstreaming of climate change and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) into agricultural development plans. …”
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry: a holistic approach to improve indigenous chicken production focusing on resilience to Newcastle disease por Zhou, Huaijun, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Dekkers, J., Gallardo, R., Kayang, B.B., Kelly, T., Msoffe, P.L.M., Muhairwa, A., Mushi, J., Naaziee, A., Otsyina, H.R., Ouma, Emily A., Lamont, S.J.

“…To improve our understanding of the epidemiology of NDV in Africa, we characterised circulating strains of the virus in Ghana and Tanzania and identified NDV risk factors among local chickens. …”
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