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Causal agent of red stripe disease of rice by Elazegui, F.A., Castilla, N.P., Dalisay, T.U., Mew, T.W.

“…The fungal isolate was reisolated from the lesions of inoculated plants and reinoculated on test plants that became symptomatic, thus fulfilling Koch's postulates. …”
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Phomopsis head rot caused by Diaporthe helianthi : A new disease on sunflower in Argentina by Colombo, Denis Nahuel, Figueruelo, Andrea Mariana, Paniego, Norma Beatriz, Comerio, Ricardo Mario, Corro Molas, Andres Ezequiel

“…Pathogenicity experiments confirmed the presence of similar disease symptoms in inoculated sunflower heads, and D. helianthi was consistently reisolated from these organs. Our Koch's postulates testing results on heads constitute the first confirmed report that D. helianthi is the cause of Phomopsis head rot on sunflower in Argentina.…”
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Ficha Iniciativa FIA : Fortalecimiento de la Cooperativa de Ovinos de La Araucanía

“…Estas acciones, que generan una alta expectativa en los asociados, han sido evaluadas en talleres de participación donde los asociados han identificado las principales fortalezas y las problemáticas que se deben resolver para el logro de los objetivos de la organización.…”
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Sustainable food production practices in the Caribbean - 2 by Ganpat, Wayne G., Isaac, Wendy-Ann P.

“…Alternative, sustainable farming and food systems must be encouraged in the Caribbean region if producers are to maintain a supply of healthy food at reasonable prices. This second volume of food production practices and innovative technologies provides a valuable, blended collection of topics not previously covered. …”
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Project A1a: On designing and implementing benefit-sharing mechanisms : by Mulligan, Mark, Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer

“…This is about identifying which benefit-sharing and coordination mechanisms work best under which circumstances for basins anywhere in the Andes and the reasons underpinning failure or success in specific basin instances. …”
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Promoting sustainable forestry resource use and improved livelihoods in refugee settings: A CIFOR-ICRAF-UNHCR partnership to support communities affected by displacement in Cameroo... by Ojong, M., Awono, A., Tshilombo, C., Abdou, M., Ada, H.N.

“…This comprised 469,281 registered refugees, 8,825 asylum seekers, 1,066,254 internally displaced persons (IDPs), and 645,746 returnees arriving mainly from Central Africa Republic and Nigeria.…”
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Feeding Africa: How small-scale irrigation can help farmers to change the game by Bryan, Elizabeth, Ringler, Claudia

“…It can be scaled quickly and without large public investments. For these reasons, it can contribute more rapidly to the achievement of national agricultural and development goals, compared to large irrigation schemes.…”
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Bioenergy in Southern Africa: An opportunity for regional integration? by Arndt, Channing, Henley, Giles, Hartley, Faaiqa

“…Key among factors to encourage production is resolving agricultural investment processes, particularly designing inclusive business models and clarifying land acquisition processes.…”
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Putting agriculture on the takeoff trajectory: Nurturing the seeds of growth in Bihar, India by Kishore, Avinash, Sharma, Bharat, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…Although the overall agricultural scenario of Bihar reflects slow growth and even stagnation, some regions in the state (like the Sone command area in south Bihar) and some crops (like maize) and allied activities (like the dairy and the livestock sector) show reasonable growth and…”
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Evidence-based research and its effect on policymaking by Islam, Nurul

“…This paper stresses the need for increased investment in the generation of adequate and relevant data, and the responsibility of the researchers to seek to reach a consensus or narrow the range of and explain the reasons for their differences, thus enabling the policymakers to exercise their judgment. …”
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Measuring food policy research capacity: Indicators and Typologies by 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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Demand characteristics for small-scale private irrigation technologies: Knowledge gaps in Nigeria by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Adeoti, Adetola I., Okoli, Silas, Salau, Sheu, Rhoe, Valerie

“…While the constraints on SPRI expansion have been well investigated by many studies in Nigeria, key knowledge gaps in at least four areas, still need to be resolved. These gaps are: (1) lack of knowledge of water sources; (2) perceptions of risks associated with rainfall and access to good quality water; (3) transaction costs associated with investments in irrigation; and (4) effectiveness of public institutions activities in SPRI.…”
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Water rights and legal pluralism: four contexts for negotiation by Bruns, Bryan Randolph, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…A common response is to formalise water tenure, one of several options for securing access and resolving conflicts concerning water allocation. This article looks at four contexts where negotiation, self‐governance and concepts of legal pluralism may help improve water resource management. …”
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Exchange, contracts, and property-rights enforcement by Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

“…Under conditions of market failure and for other reasons, nonmarket coordination mechanisms are also often preferred in the developed nations of the world.…”
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External and internal migration propensity index (MPI) for Honduras: Out-of-sample validation by Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Hernandez, Alvaro Espinoza

“…Moreover, they perform well against alternative measures, work reasonably well for both rural and urban areas and in departments not included in the original calibration data, and appear to capture distinct aspects around households’ decisions to migrate domestically and abroad. …”
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Water resources in the Asia-Pacific region: managing scarcity by Rosegrant, Mark W., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…This paper reviews the management of water resources in the Asia‐Pacific region, for countries with significant irrigated area: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea‐DPR, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.…”
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Analysing macro-poverty linkages: an overview by Gunter, Bernhard G., Cohen, Marc J., Lofgren, Hans

“…Nevertheless, while there are some reasons for optimism about the future, the potential contribution of these insights and tools to poverty reduction is largely unfulfilled. …”
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Applying a stakeholder approach in FLR by Kusumanto, T.

“…This kind of approach is important in FLR for two reasons. First, the success of FLR initiatives will depend on the willingness of stakeholder groups to cooperate with each other and with the FLR efforts. …”
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Physical and transcriptional organization of the ribosomal RNA genes of the savannah-type Trypanosoma congolense by Urakawa, T., Majiwa, Phelix A.O.

“…This leads to the different profiles observed when the rRNA molecules from these two trypanosome species are resolved in agarose gels. From the nucleotide sequences of the 18S RNA, a phylogenetic tree was derived depicting the relationships among the T. congolense complex of trypanosomes and the other species of trypanosomes.…”
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Irrigation management and crop diversification (Sri Lanka). Vol. 1- Synthesis of findings and recommendations Kirindi Oya and Uda Walawe Projects - Vol. 2 - Kirindi Oya Project - V... by International Irrigation Management Institute

“…No.846-SRI) dated 27 November 1987, between the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (GOSL), the International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). …”
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