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Data Descriptor: Smart subsidies for catchment conservation in Malawi por Bell, Andrew Reid, Ward, Patrick S., Mapemba, Lawrence, Nyirenda, Zephania, Msukwa, Wupe, Kenamu, Edwin

“…Conservation agriculture (CA) is a management paradigm in which soil is covered outside of cropping seasons, minimally disturbed, and recharged with nitrogen-fixing legumes. …”
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The life cycle of malnutrition: IFPRI 1999-2000 Annual Report Essay por Gillespie, Stuart, Flores, Rafael

“…The authors examine each stage of the life cycle, from birth and infancy to childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. In developing countries the main direct causes of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) are nutritional. …”
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The role of agriculture in development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…In order to examine in greater detail the relevance for Africa of both the “old” and “new? literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries based on their stage of development, agricultural conditions, natural resources, and geographic location... …”
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The role of agriculture in development: implications for Sub-Saharan Africa por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…In order to examine in greater detail the relevance for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries based on their stage of development, agricultural conditions, natural resources, and geographic location... …”
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Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils por Narayanan, Sudha

“…Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming. …”
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New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else? por Oyono, P.R.

“…Unlike West, East or Southern Africa, resource tenure is a not really an old research domain in Central Africa. While injecting information on the topic, the essay interrogates the nature of ongoing change in the structure of community rights to forest in Cameroon. …”
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A seroprevalence study of camel brucellosis in three camel-rearing regions of Ethiopia por Teshome, H., Molla, B., Tibbo, Markos

“…There was a significant difference in the prevalence of brucellosis ( 2 = 7.91, p<0.05), which was highest in Afar (5.2%) followed by Somali (2.8%) and Borena (1.2%) regions. …”
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Normes hematologiques du Zebu Gudali dans les hauts-plateaux du Nord-Ouest camerounais por Merlin, P.

“…The RBC decreased with age while the packed cell volume remained constant and averaged 34.9. …”
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Sources of resistance in Musa to Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, the causal agent of banana xanthomonas wilt por Nakato, G.V., Christelova, P., Were, E., Nyine, M., Coutinho, Teresa A., Doležel, Jaroslav, Uwimana, Brigitte, Swennen, Rony L., Mahuku, George S.

“…The midribs of the youngest leaf of 3-month-old banana plants were inoculated with 108 CFU mL 1 of Xcm isolate USY13P, and symptom development assessed weekly for 4 months. …”
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Den sista vilan por Tomasdotter, Ylva

“…Most of the cemeteries have grounds which are not used for burying. These places can be of use for planting shrubs and trees to increase the quality of the vegetation. …”
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Traditional sheep and Goat production in southern Cote d'Ivoire por Armbruster, T., Peters, Kurt J.

“…Management, flock and season significantly influenced performance traits, which indicated improvement opportunities. The better performance of free-roaming flocks underlines the importance of sufficiently long daily grazing and browsing, while poor growth of lambs and kids born during rainy season indicated the necessity of improving flock health. …”
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Valor de la yuca fermentada como reemplazo del maíz en raciones para ovinos por Adeyanju, S.A

“…Twenty-four 14-week old West Agrican Dwarf sheep comprising 12 wethers and 12 lambs with an average initial body weight of 15.68 kg were fed rations in which fermented cassava replaced corn w/w at 0, 20, 40 and 60% levels, respectively for 224 days. …”
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Epifytiska lavar på gran i naturligt fragmenterad naturskog por Hammarström, Ola

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Kulturarv i industrimiljö och framtida aspekter por Lidman, Siri

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Chapter 16: Agriculture, WASH, and safety nets: Ethiopia’s multisector story [Nourishing Millions] por Warren, Andrea

“…The country was one of the top five performing countries in the 2000s in terms of reducing stunting by reducing its prevalence from 57.4 percent in 2000 to 44.2 percent in 2011, although levels remained high at 40.0 percent in 2014.2 The same 2014 Demographic and Health Survey found that a further 9 percent of children younger than 5 years old experience wasting, and only 4 percent of children meet the standards for a minimal acceptable diet (a World Health Organization [WHO]/UNICEF indicator for complementary feeding).3 Significant regional differences persist, with the highest rates of stunting (52 percent) found in Amhara and the lowest found in Gambela (27 percent) and Addis Ababa (22 percent). …”
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Herbicidas postemergentes en yuca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) selectividad, metodos de aplicacion e interaccion con edad por Piedrahíta Castañeda, Wilson, Doll, J.

“…All the other products were highly toxic for all ages in over-the-top applications. …”
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Yield of plantain grown under different tree densities and slash and mulch versus slash and burn management in an agrisilvicultural system in southern Cameroon por Norgrove, L., Hauser, S.

“…Schott) under two imposed timber stand densities (TSDs), replicated in four blocks, in a 6-year-old Terminalia ivorensis (A) Chev. timber plantation in southern Cameroon. …”
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Forest ecosystem responses to edge effects and secondary forest development in northeastern Costa Rica: implications for conservation por Schedlbauer, Jessica L.

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Elephant utilisation of and impact on a locally threatened habitat, coastal scarp forest, in South Africa por Apelqvist, Matilda

“…Overall, the elephant impact found was rather old, and there were few indications that the elephants had any major effect on either tree community or animal community in the measured plots.…”
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Physical activity level, dietary habits, and alcohol and tobacco use among young Guatemalan adults por Stein, Aryeh D., Gregory, Cria O., Hoddinott, John F., Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramakrishnan, Usha, Ramirez-Zea, Manuel

“…Dietary habits reflect early phases of the nutrition transition, with high carbohydrate and moderate fat intakes. Migrants to Guatemala City reported higher intakes of meat and of dairy products, while those remaining in or near the original study villages reported higher consumption of tortillas and of vegetables and fruits. …”
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