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Case studies on efforts to digitalize payments in agri-food value chains por Wagner, Julia, de Brauw, Alan, Bloem, Jeffrey R., Ambler, Kate

“…Agriculture remains the backbone of rural economies across much of both Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, employing 54 and 43 percent of the workforce, respectively, and providing livelihoods for most of the rural poor (GSMA, 2020; Nair and Varghese, 2020). …”
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Interplay of resource endowments, agriculture and nutritional outcomes in the Central Indian Landscape por Padhan, Niranjan, Anantha, K.H., Garg, Kaushal K., Akuraju, V. R., Singh, Ramesh, Jat, M.L.

“…Family size negatively impacts dietary intake, while irrigated land positively affects energy, protein, and iron intake. …”
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A review of tropical forestry and agroforestry problem areas and policy research needs and the planned response of the CGIAR system por Spears, J., Oram, Peter A., Byron, R.N., Scherr, Sara J., Izac, A.M.N.

“…Peter Oram played the leading role in raising funds, organising all of the workshops jointly with IFPRI's partners in Asia (FAO), Africa (ICRAF), and Latin America (IICA), running the three regional meetings, and writing the reports. …”
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Urdbean (Vigna mungo L. Hepper) cultivar characterization based on multiple seed and flour properties and their multi-variate analysis using artificial neural network por Sen Gupta, Debjyoti, Sharanagat, Vijay Singh, Chakraborty, Gourav, Kumar, Jitendra, Parihar, A K, Yadav, Tanmay, Swaraj, Upadhyay, Srishti, Desai, Shivani, Katiyar, P.K., Das, S.P., Rana, Jai Chand, Dixit, G.P.

“…Urdbean is one of the most highly consumed pulse crops in South Asia. For the last 35 years, several varieties were developed. …”
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Managing water productivity, groundwater stress, and nexus trade-offs in the Ganga River Basin, India por Amarasinghe, Upali A., Perera, Madhusha, Sikka, Alok, Mahapatra, Smaranika, Sarangi, A.

“…The Ganga River Basin (GRB) is a critical hotspot of the water-food-energy-environment (WFEE) nexus in South Asia, with severe pressures from groundwater over-extraction. …”
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Unlocking Dolichos bean diversity in the National Genebank: Morphological characterization and core set development to optimize its conservation and utilization por Mohapatra, K.P., Sarkar, Suresh, Kumar, Saurabh, Ramya, K.R., Tripathi, Kuldeep, Chandra, Puran, Gore, Padmavati G., Gautam, R.K., Pranusha, P., Anitha, K., Rana, Jai Chand, Singh, G.P.

“…Sweet.) is a popularly cultivated legume in Asia and Africa for grain, vegetables, and fodder. …”
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Evaluation of elite wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes for resistance to stem rust (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici), yield and yield stability por Kemboi, Jenniffer J., Bhavani, Sridhar, Okwiri Ojwang, Pascal P.

“…Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, is a destructive fungal disease of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and poses a major challenge to wheat production in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The continuous evolution and variable nature of stem rust predispose wheat to serious genetic vulnerability, necessitating proactive incorporation of new and effective resistance sources into breeding lines. …”
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Evaluating farmers' satisfaction from high-yielding rice (Oryza sativa) variety cultivation in boro season: evidence from adaptive trials in Bangladesh por Hassan, Md. Masudul, Habib, Muhammad Ashraful, Nayak, Swati, Jewel, Zilhas Ahmed, Resmi, Samira Islam, Hasan, Mahamudul

“…These findings reinforce ongoing policy discussions around sustainable rice intensification in South Asia.…”
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Reduced-impact logging (RIL) research and development in Malinau research forest, East Kalimantan: a challenge of RIL adoption por Priyadi, H., Gunarso, Petrus, Sist, P., Dwiprabowo, H.

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Biofuel plantations on forested lands: double jeopardy for biodiversity and climate por Danielsen, F., Beukema, H., Burgess, Neil D., Parish, F., Bruhl, C.A., Donald, P.F., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Phalan, B., Reijnders, L., Struebig, M., Fitzherbert, e.B.

“…Oil-palm plantations cover over 13 million ha, primarily in Southeast Asia, where they have directly or indirectly replaced tropical rainforest. …”
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Geographic and breed distribution patterns of an A/G Polymorphism resent in the Mx gene suggests balanced selection in village chickens por Ommeh, S., Jin, L.N., Eding, H., Muchadeyi, F.C., Sulandari, S., Danbaro, G., Wani, C.E., Nie, Q.H., Zhang, X. Q., Ndila, M., Preisinger, R., Chen, G.H., Yousif, I. A., Heo, K.N., Oh, S.J., Tapio, M., Masiga, Daniel K., Hanotte, Olivier H., Weigend, S., Han Jianlin

“…An A/G Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) at position 1,892 of the Mx gene coding sequence has been linked to susceptibility/resistance to avian viral infection in vitro. …”
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Spatial fields’ dispersion as a farmer strategy to reduce agro-climatic risk at the household level in pearl millet-based systems in the Sahel: A modeling perspective por Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Minet, J., Gerard, Bruno G., Defourny, Pierre, Bielders, Charles L.

“…This data was used to compute, by means of the APSIM crop simulation model, millet biomass and grain yields at the pixel scale. …”
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Balancing-out floods and droughts: opportunities to utilize floodwater harvesting and groundwater storage for agricultural developmentin Thailand por Pavelic, Paul, Srisuk, K., Saraphirom, P., Nadee, S., Pholkern, K., Chusanathas, S., Munyou, S., Tangsutthinon, T., Intarasut, T., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…It is expected that such an approach would also be applicable to other coastal-discharging basins in Thailand and potentially throughout the Asia region.…”
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Genetic diversity of West Nile virus isolated from the tick, Rhipicephalus pulchellus, in Kenya por Lwande, Olivia Wesula, Venter, M., Lutomiah, J., Michuki, George N., Rumberia, C., Gakuya, F., Obanda, V., Tigoi, C., Odhiambo, C., Nindo, F., Sang, R.

“…Background: West Nile virus is a re-emerging infectious disease that has a wide geographical distribution in Africa, parts of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas where it causes outbreaks. …”
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Breaking the cycles of land degradation: a case study from Ban Lak Sip, Lao PDR por International Water Management Institute

“…Leads to Land Degradation: Lessons from Ban Lak Sip, Laos (IWMI Research Report 91) by Guillaume Lestrelin, Mark Giordano and Bounmy Keohavong. …”
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Cost and benefits of the National River Linking Project: an analysis of peninsular links por Amarasinghe, Upali A., Rajendran, S.

“…When and if completed, the NRLP forms a gigantic water grid covering most of South Asia. It envisages transferring 174 billion cubic meters (Bm3) of water across 34 river links and will cost about US$120 billion (2000 prices). …”
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Hydropower development impact on household livelihood and economy: a case study in Laos. [Abstract only]. por Milan, Florence M., Keophosay, Anousith, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…The growing regional demand for electricity in Southeast Asia has made Laos a key player in hydropower development since the 1990s. …”
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Le concept de PES pour une gestion durable des eaux et des sols: application au developpement de l'elevage et au controle environnemental dans le Nord Vietnam por Orange, Didier, Bardouin, L., Nguyen, D. P., Loiseau, J.B., Clement, Floriane, Jouquet, Pascal

“…The proposed project offers a novel approach in that a holistic approach is introduced to achieve income generation from livestock manure management in mountainous environment of Southeast Asia in establishing a process of comprehensive assessment, of mutual learning between farmers from upper part and down part of the watershed through a hydrological modelling platform, and by the development of new agricultural technologies as biogas digester and vermicompost unit.…”
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Lessons from irrigation investment experiences: cost-reducing and performance-enhancing options for Sub-Saharan Africa por Inocencio, Arlene B., Kikuchi, M., Merrey, Douglas J., Tonosaki, M., Maruyama, A., Jong, J. de, Sally, Hilmy, Penning de Vries, Frits W.T.

“…The report presents recommendations for formulating better irrigation projects and a clear investment direction in agricultural water in Sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Assessment of tillage erosion rates on steep slopes in northern Laos por Dupin, B., Rouw, Anneke de, Phantahvong, K.B., Valentin, Christian

“…In the hills of south-east Asia shifting cultivation is developing towards more permanent cropping systems. …”
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