Search Results - Project control
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Breaking the links between conflict and hunger in Africa
Published 2004“…Often, warring parties manipulate starvation as a deliberate tactic, using their control over access to food to attract and reward friends and humble and punish enemies. …”
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Report of the TAC Quinquennial Review of ILRAD, 1981
Published 1981“…Five priority projects are identified for ILRAD's work on trypanosomiasis and five for theileriosis. …”
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SNP-Seek II: A resource for allele mining and analysis of big genomic data in Oryza sativa
Published 2016“…The 3000 Rice Genomes Project generated a large dataset of genomic variation to the world’s most important crop, Oryza sativa L. …”
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Patterns of fetal growth based on ultrasound measurement and its relationship with small for gestational age at birth in rural Vietnam
Published 2016“…We aim to describe patterns of fetal growth and to predict SGA at birth using fetal ultrasound measurements.We studied 1412 pregnant women enrolled in a randomised‐controlled trial evaluating maternal micronutrient supplementation in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam. …”
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Consumer food safety awareness and demand for fluid milk: A case study from India
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Leveraging social protection for women’s engagement in sustainable land management: IPSR Innovation Profile. First edition, March 2024
Published 2024“…For example, Kato et al (2021) find that plots controlled by women in Ethiopia are more prone to soil erosion and of poorer quality in terms of soil depth, and women’s participation in watershed committees is low. …”
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Improving the productivity of cowpea in the savannas of northeast Nigeria through participatory evaluation and dissemination of improved varieties
Published 2012“…Further adoption studies revealed a 38% adoption of improved varieties four years after introduction in project areas. However, despite the obvious yield benefits of the new varieties, farmers have shown a preference for the continued use of a local variety Kanannado Brown. …”
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Water infiltration in the Nyando River basin, Kenya
Published 2009“…The results showed that the average steady-state infitrability was significantly higher, and the average sediment generation rate and bulk density significantly lower, in the treated plots than in the controls. The higher infiltrability rates in the treated plots as compared to the controls were significantly explained by the increment in vegetation cover and the reduction in soil bulk density. …”
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Cattle trypanosomiasis in Africa to 2030
Published 2006“…This indicative study modelled the effect of climate change and population growth on the future range of tsetse flies, their main vector, in sub- Saharan Africa. Projected climate change to 2030 has a limited effect on their distribution. …”
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Radiosensibilidad de las especies de plantas tropicales: Carica papaya, Manihot dulcis y Swietenia humilis
Published 2025“…At a dose of 12 Kr of acute gamma radiation, the percentage of survival of papaya (Carica papaya) seeds was not appreciably different from the control Further experimentation showed that the LDs for papaya seeds was in the vecinity of 19 Kr. …”
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Market development and food demand in rural China
Published 1995“…Understanding the forces behind these consumption pattern shifts also will aid academics and policymakers in making better projections about future consumerneeds and price levels.…”
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The evolving role of tropical forests for local livelihoods in Indonesia
Published 2011“…Local people consider development projects, logging and mining activities, and floods as having the greatest influence on their livelihoods and use of forests. …”
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Understanding modifiable caregiver factors contributing to child development among young children in rural Malawi
Published 2024“…This study examined modifiable caregiver factors influencing child development in Malawi using baseline data from 1,021 mothers and their children <2 years of age participating in a cluster-randomized controlled trial implemented in rural Malawi (2022–2025). …”
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