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Ratoon rice mapping based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery by Fikriyah, Vidya Nahdhiyatul, Darvishzadeh, Roshanak, Laborte, Alice, Nelson, Andrew

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Genome-wide association mapping for salinity recovery of rice seedlings grown in hydroponic and field conditions by Siddique, Md. Abubakar, De Ocampo, Marjorie, Bagunu, Efren, Quick, William Paul, Diaz, Maria Genaleen, Henry, Amelia

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Implementing marker covariates and multi‐trait genomic selection models to improve grain milling, appearance, cooking, and edible quality in rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) by Dhakal, Anup, Cruz, Maribel, Loaiza, Katherine, Cuasquer, Juan, Rosas, Juan, Graterol, Eduardo, Arbelaez, Juan David

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Co-production of climate services: Challenges and enablers by Jacob, Daniela, Lera St Clair, Asun, Mahon, Roche, Marsland, Simon, Ndebele Murisa, Mzime, Buontempo, Carlo, Pulwarty, Roger S, Siddiqui, Md Rezwan, Grossi, Amanda, Steynor, Anna, Mugandani, Raymond, Alexander, Lisa V, Ruane, Alex C, Doblas Reyes, Francisco J, Wolff, Maria, List, Geneva, Noori, Sameera

“…Achieving co-development asks for reframing and scaled-up transdisciplinary, sustained, and multidirectional approaches between a diversity of information users and providers. For these processes, it is key to also address and further minimize or overcome barriers of co-production, while supporting enabling and accelerating mechanisms, better preparation of climate services providers including National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, private actors, civil society, and academia for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, enhanced individual and institutional capacity development and governance mechanisms.…”
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Science for the poor: how one woman challenged researchers, ranchers, and loggers in Amazonia by Shanley, P.

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Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network by Ahumada, Jorge A., Gajapersad, F.K., Hallam, C., Hurtado, J., Martin, E., McWilliam, A., Mugerwa, B., O'Brien, T., Rovero, F., Sheil, Douglas, Spironello, W.R., Winarni, Nurul L., Andelman, Sandy J.

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Participatory disease surveillance: Cost effectiveness relative to passive surveillance in Kajiado County, Kenya by Hannah, H., Kimani, T., Irungu, P., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

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Interdisciplinary research on environmental sanitation and health: Conceptual framework development and field test by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham Duc, Van Tu, V., Thu Nga, D., Cong Khuong, N., Zurbrugg, C., Zinsstag, Jakob, Tanner, M.

“…The framework has three main components: health status, physical environment, and socio-economic environment. Information on each of these three components can be obtained using standard disciplinary methods and an innovative combination of these methods. …”
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Cost effectiveness analysis of participatory disease surveillance in Kenya by Hannah, H., Kimani, T., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

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Insight to Ecosystem Based Approach (EBA) at landscape level using a geospatial medium by Nagabhatla, N., Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Bobba, A.G., Finlayson, C. Max, Wickramasuriya, R., Brakel, Martin L. van, Prasad, S.N., Pattanaik, C.

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Current state of knowledge on characterisation of farm animal genetic resources in Ethiopia by Ayalew, W., Getahun, E., Tibbo, Markos, Mamo, Y., Rege, J.E.O.

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Testicular growth and its relationship with linear body measurements in Borana-Friesian crossbred bull calves at different ages by Gojam, Y., Tegegne, Azage, Gebre-Wold, A., Alemayehu, M., Yilma, Z.

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Farmer training workshops on understanding probabilistic seasonal forecasts: Wote, Kenya, 14-16 and 20-23 September 2011 by Njiru E, Ariithi CKK, Rao, K.P.C., Mutinda D, Hansen, James

“…The aim of the training was to empower farmers with knowledge on the use of forecast information and to enable them make better use of this knowledge in their farm planning for improved household food security. …”
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Diversity for sustaining livelihoods: examples, constraints and lessons learnt by Taylor, M., Jaenicke, H., Hunter, D., McGregor, A., Lyons, G.

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Incorporating local institutions in irrigation experiments: evidence from rural communities in Pakistan by Javaid, A., Falk, Thomas

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Climate Week NYC Panel Event: Innovative Approaches for Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture by Dinh, Dannie, Hansen, James

“…Some of the most promising innovations for scaling up CSA—including climate information services, insurance, and support from the global food industry—go beyond farm-level technologies and practice to foster an enabling institutional environment. …”
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Perceptions, attitudes and behaviours toward urban surface water quality in Accra, Ghana by Abraham, Ernest M., Martin, A., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Following the FGDs, further information was obtained through structured household questionnaire survey involving 443 respondents. …”
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Determination of the main reservoir hosts of West Nile virus among wild birds in Tana River County, Kenya by Nyamwaya, D.K.

“…Re-emerging infectious diseases can cause serious health and economic effects in a society. West Nile virus fever is a zoonotic arboviral infection maintained in nature within a cycle between mosquito vectors and birds. …”
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CIAT in Ethiopia: Science for Impact by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Our cutting-edge science helps policymakers, the private sector, scientists, civil society, and farmers respond to the pressing challenges of our time. …”
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Multi-Level policy dialogues, processes, and actions: Challenges and opportunities for national REDD+ safeguards Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) by Jagger, P., Brockhaus, Maria, Duchelle, Amy E., Gebara, M.F., Lawlor, K., Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Sunderlin, William D.

“…Stakeholders with vested interests in REDD+ social safeguards operate in polycentric rather than nested systems, suggesting that aggregation of information from local to national-scale will be a challenge. …”
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