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Silvopasture for improved smallholder crop-livestock systems: A case study of sustainable intensification in the Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR por van Wijngaarden, Kim, Cossu, Alessandra, Jalonen, Riina, Atieno, Mary, Ritzema, Randall, López Ridaura, Santiago, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…The Lao People's Democratic Republic has experienced significant changes in agricultural development and commercialization over the past few decades. …”
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Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh por Islam, Mir Raihanul, Angell, Blake, Naher, Nahitun, Islam, Bushra Zarin, Khan, Mushtaq Husain, McKee, Martin, Hutchinson, Eleanor, Balabanova, Dina, Ahmed, Syed Masud

“…Of 308 respondents, 74% reported having served each term of their rural postings without interruptions. The main reasons for absenteeism reported by those who interrupted rural postings were formal training opportunities (65%), family commitments (41%), and a miscellaneous group of others (17%). …”
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Performance of the Abernosa ranch in the production of Ethiopian Boran X Holstein Crossbreed dairy Heifers in Ethiopia por Dekeba, A., Ayalew, W., Hedge, P.B., Tadesse, Z.

“…Furthermore, between 1994 and 2000, annually on average 20% of the crossbred heifers were culled for health difficulties, physical injury and unknown reasons. If this rather high culling rate could be reduced by half through separate and proper management of heifers, the number of available heifers for mating could be increased by 15.4%, and with this, also the number of in calf heifers available for distribution. …”
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South African agricultural productivity in the global context: Comparisons using FAO data por Arndt, Channing, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

“…Overall, South African agriculture is reasonably productive in terms of TFP and has been approaching the global PPF. …”
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Pixelating crop production: Consequences of methodological choices por Joglekar, Alison K. B., Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Thus knowing the location of agriculture matters much for a host of reasons. There are several widely cited attempts to model the spatial pattern of crop production worldwide, not least by pixilating crop production statistics originally reported on an areal (administrative boundary) basis. …”
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Why some are more equal than others: Country typologies of food security por Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Thomas, Marcelle

“…The hierarchical approach is used first, to determine potential outliers and to explore what would be a reasonable number of clusters. That analysis suggests that the maximum number of relevant clusters for the analysis is 10 and identifies three countries as outliers. …”
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Using best-worst scaling to inform agroecological interventions in Western Kenya por Zander, Kerstin K., Drucker, Adam G., Aluso, Lillian, Mengistu, Dejene K., Fadda, Carlo, Termote, Céline, Davis, Kristin E.

“…To assess such preferences, we conducted a survey among farmers in Western Kenya which included a best-worst scaling experiment augmented by qualitative questions about the reasons for farmers’ views about the importance of the benefits arising from agroecological practices. …”
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Food as the basis for development and security: A strategy for Yemen por Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Funes, José, Yu, Bingxin

“…In order to provide opportunities for Yemenis to escape the current situation of widespread poverty and food insecurity, the Government of the Republic of Yemen, under the leadership of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, has developed a strategy to help all Yemeni people gain access to sufficient and nutritious foods in order to live active, productive, and healthy lives. …”
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2012 Global hunger index: The challenge of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses por von Grebmer, Klaus, Ringler, Claudia, Rosegrant, Mark W., Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Wiesmann, Doris, Fritschel, Heidi, Badiane, Ousmane, Torero, Maximo, Yohannes, Yisehac, Thompson, Jennifer, von Oppeln, Constanze, Rahall, Joseph

“…In contrast to recent years, the Democratic Republic of Congo is not listed as “extremely alarming,” because insufficient data are available to calculate the country’s GHI score. …”
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The triangle of microfinance: financial sustainability, outreach, and impact por Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.

“…The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. …”
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The triangle of microfinance: Financial sustainability, outreach, and impact por Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.

“…The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. …”
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Breed preferences and breeding practices in smallholder dairy systems of the central highlands of Kenya por Bebe, B.O., Thorpe, W.R., Udo, H.M.J., Mulinge, W.

“…For this study, respondents were asked to state the sources of their dairy foundation stock and the reasons for selecting their current breeds. Subsequently the survey was extended during March-April 1998 to another eight districts in the central Kenya when 1390 households were randomly sampled. …”
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From pixels to plant health: Accurate detection of banana Xanthomonas wilt in complex African landscapes using high-resolution UAV images and deep learning por Mora, Juan Jose, Selvaraj, Michael Gomez, Alvarez, Cesar Ivan, Safari, Nancy, Blomme, Guy

“…To address this, the present study develops a Deep-Learning system to detect BXW-affected stems in mixed-complex landscapes within the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and multispectral (MS) images from unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs were utilized using pansharpening algorithms for improved data fusion. …”
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European Union: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications por Josling, Timothy Edward, Swinbank, Alan

“…Without the Doha Round constraints, further reform might still happen for domestic reasons, but the framework provided by the WTO for domestic policy spending would be less relevant. …”
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Cost aspects of African agricultural research por Pardey, Philip G., Roseboom, Johannes, Beintema, Nienke M., Chan-Kang, Connie

“…Simple econometric procedures were applied to a sub-sample of 107 agencies in 21 countries to investigate reasons for the large variation in costs per scientist. …”
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Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review por Deguine, Jean-Philippe, Aubertot, Jean-Noël, Flor, Rica Joy, Lescourret, Françoise, Wyckhuys, Kris A.G., Ratnadass, Alain

“…Throughout this period, IPM has endeavored to promote sustainable forms of agriculture, pursued sharp reductions in synthetic pesticide use, and thereby resolved myriad socio-economic, environmental, and human health challenges. …”
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Selection of trait-specific markers and multi-environment models improve genomic predictive ability in rice por Bhandari, Aditi, Bartholomé, Jérôme, Cao-Hamadoun, Tuong-Vi, Kumari, Nilima, Frouin, Julien, Kumar, Arvind, Ahmadi, Nourollah

“…We also showed that reasonable PA could be obtained with as few as 3,000 SNP markers, even in a population of low LD extent, provided marker selection is based on pairwise LD. …”
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Genetic dissection and simultaneous improvement of drought and low nitrogen tolerances by designed QTL pyramiding in rice por Feng, Bo, Chen, Kai, Cui, Yanru, Wu, Zhichao, Zheng, Tianqing, Zhu, Yajun, Ali, Jauhar, Wang, Bingbing, Xu, Jianlong, Zhang, Wenzhong, Li, Zhikang

“…Development and adoption of green super rice (GSR) varieties with greatly improved drought tolerance (DT) and low nitrogen tolerance (LNT) are the most efficient way to resolve this problem. In this study, using three sets of trait-specific introgression lines (ILs) in a Xian (indica) variety Huanghuazhan (HHZ) background, we identified nine DT-QTL and seven LNT QTL by a segregation distortion approach and a genome-wide association study, respectively. …”
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REHYDRATE - an international HELPING working group to REtrieve historical HYDRologic dATa and Estimates por Bertola, M., Mazzoglio, P., Gelebo, A. H., Shobha, A. R., Jampani, Mahesh, Singh, S., Prieto, C., Panda, S., Zaifoglu, H., Bhowmik, A., Guesri, M., Dietrich, S., Tegegn, Z., Viglione, A., Bonaccorso, B., Claps, P., Manfreda, S., Koren, G., Moulds, S., Ganapathy, A., Pizarro, A., Lešcešen, I., Jorquera, J., Morbidelli, R., Nearing, G., Treppiedi, D., Alexander, S., Gilite, K., Dallan, E., Otieno, W., Houteta, D. K., Filipova, V., Rosselló-Geli, J., Koriche, S., Faerber, C., Vidal, J.-P., Akpoti, Komlavi, Vincent, K., Aslam, H., Musau, J., Domeneghetti, A., Rahmad, R., Moccia, B., Badji, A., Ceola, S., Jean-Emmanuel, P., Roy, T., Nandikanti, S. S. S., Zhang, Q., Chaffe, P., Mendiondo, E. M., Cudennec, C., Fan, X., Gargouri, E., Izzeddine, M., Korichi, A., Abdessamed, D., Merheb, M., Lamia, R., Slimane, B., De Smeth, K., Goody, N., Newcomer, M., Slama, F., Abdeldjabbar, B. S., Whitaker, A., Surendran, U., Chauhan, G., Montanari, A., Chen, A., Tan, X., Li, Y., Wu, S., Yang, Y., Yao, J., Payne, T.

“…Manual transcription is more accurate, but extremely resource-intensive. For these reasons, there is a general need for better and less costly methods for hydrological data rescue. …”
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What evidence exists on the pathways linking climate change to livestock production and consumption in sub-Saharan Africa? A protocol for a systematic map por Tareke, Amare Abera, Zerfu, Taddese Alemu, Hailesilassie, Wondimu Tadiwos, Bosire, Caroline K., Mukherji, Aditi

“…At each stage of the screening process, the number of studies included and excluded will be recorded, and the reasons for exclusion during full-text screening. …”
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