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Hunting in Times of Change: Uncovering Indigenous Strategies in the Colombian Amazon Using a Role-Playing Game by Ponta, N., Cornioley, T., Dray, A., Vliet, N. van, Waeber, Patrick O., Garcia, C.A.

“…When it comes to coupled human-nature systems, the best way forward to produce socially just and resilient conservation strategies might be to trigger an adaptive process of experiential learning and scenario exploration. …”
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The effect of climate-smart agriculture on soil fertility, crop yield, and soil carbon in Southern Ethiopia by Tadesse, Meron, Simane, Belay, Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Recha, John W.M., Mekonnen, Kindu, Demeke, Getamesay, Nigussie, Abebe, Solomon, Dawit

“…It is critical to develop technologies that simultaneously improve agricultural production,offset impacts of climate change, and ensure food security in a changing climate. Within this context,considerable attention has been given to climate-smart agricultural practices (CSA). …”
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Potato value chain development project in Cameroon. Internal midterm review report by Adamu, I., Fornkwa, V., Harahagazwe, D., Parker, M., Tiozang, E.

“…With its value chain focus on production and commercialization, ProCISA also targets job creation and the role of women and youth in agriculture and food security. The capacity building around Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) is essential and a significant component in the ProCISA approach. …”
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Effects of long-term land use and land cover changes on ecosystem service values: an example from the Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia by Mekuria, Wolde, Diyasa, M., Tengberg, A., Haileslassie, Amare

“…The results imply that addressing the degradation of land and water resources is crucial to reversing the loss of ecosystem services and achieving the national Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to food and water security (SDGs 2 and 6) and life on land (SDG 15).…”
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Synergy-building in weather and climate: Partnership between NMHS, policy makers, private sector and media training workshop for Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia by Abdi, Abduwali

“…Its main objective is to co-develop dedicated climate services for the water, energy and food security sectors with stakeholders and end-users, to enhance their ability to plan for and adapt to seasonal climate fluctuations. …”
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Mainstreaming access and benefit sharing in agricultural Research and Development: a workshop for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in selected African countries and org... by López Noriega, Isabel, Tiambo, Christian

“…The objectives of the workshop were: • Raise awareness about the role of ABS in reaching pan-African objectives of sustainable agricultural development, food security and climate change adaptation. • Facilitate exchange of experiences in implementing ABS systems • Raise the profile of ABS procedures for reaching development objetives • Identify examples of how organizations have mainstreamed compliance with national ABS measures • Identify challenges for parties and brainstorm on potential solutions…”
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Genome-wide association studies of grain yield and quality traits under optimum and low-nitrogen stress in tropical maize (Zea mays L.) by Ndlovu, Noel, Spillane, Charles, McKeown, Peter C., Cairns, Jill E., Das, Biswanath, Gowda, Manje

“…This has resulted in a significant yield gap for the major staple crop maize, which is undermining nutritional security and livelihood sustainability across the region. …”
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Ovine gastrointestinal parasite burden and the impact of strategic anthelmintic treatment strategy in community-based breeding sites in Ethiopia by Molla, W., Moliso, Mesfin M., Gizaw, Solomon, Nane, T., Arke, A., Ayele, F., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…Introduction: In Ethiopia, small ruminants contribute significantly to livelihoods and food security but productivity is low with high disease burden and essential endoparasite control not widely practiced. …”
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Adoption of dairy technologies in smallholder dairy farms in Ethiopia by Korir, L., Manning, L., Moore, H.L., Lindahl, Johanna F., Gemechu, G., Mihret, A., Berg, S., Wood, J.L.N., Nyokabi, N.S.

“…The adoption of modern agricultural technologies in Ethiopia’s dairy production system remains underutilized and under-researched yet it is a promising sector to aid in reducing poverty, improving the food security situation and the welfare of rural households, and in ensuring environmental sustainability. …”
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Value chain and Multicrop baseline of TAFS-WCA: Case of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by Arouna, A., Yergo, W.G., Aboudou, R., Ouedraogo, M., Abdoulaye, T.

“…This report presents the results of the baseline survey of the Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and Central Africa (TAFS-WCA) initiative in DRC. …”
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Antibiotic resistance in aquatic environments: priorities and knowledge for water quality modelling [Abstract only] by Jampani, Mahesh, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier, Langan, Simon J.

“…The conceptual understanding of sources and pathways of antibiotics, ARB, and ARGs from society to the water systems is essential for setting the scene and developing an appropriate modelling framework. …”
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Economic empowerment of tribal women farmers through gender-inclusive mechanized seeding based technology in Odisha, India by Mohapatra, Bidhan Kumar, Iftikar, Wasim

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Sri Lanka: ClimBeR Inception Workshop Report by Jeya Raj, Renuka, Mascarenhas, M., Amarnath, Giriraj, Amarasinghe, Upali A., Alahacoon, Niranga, Singarachchi, Manahari

“…The CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (‘ClimBeR’) was designed to develop bold transformative climate actions by delivering science and innovation to transform food, land, and water systems that will help smallholder farmers and local communities better adapt to the impacts of climate variability. …”
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A framework for disaggregating remote-sensing cropland into rainfed and irrigated classes at continental scale by Owusu, Afua, Kagone, S., Leh, Mansoor, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Gumma, Murali K., Ghansah, Benjamin, Thilina-Prabhath, Paranamana, Akpoti, Komlavi, Mekonnen, Kirubel, Tinonetsana, Primrose, Mohammed, I.

“…Agriculture consumes the largest share of freshwater globally; therefore, distinguishing between rainfed and irrigated croplands is essential for agricultural water management and food security. In this study, a framework incorporating the Budyko model was used to differentiate between rainfed and irrigated cropland areas in Africa for eight remote sensing landcover products and a high-confidence cropland map (HCCM). …”
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Exploring the interaction between the built food environment and intra-household gastronomy through photovoice in India by Ynion, Jhoanne, Banerjee, Deep, Custodio, Marie Claire, Samaddar, Arindam, Veetil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…In this research note, we have adapted an expanded definition of the food environment using the socio-ecological framework (Downs et al., 2020) and the Gastronomic Systems Research (GSR) framework (Cuevas et al., 2017; Samaddar et al., 2020; Custodio et al., 2021). …”
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Resource recovery from livestock waste: a compilation of business cases from the Global South by Sathiskumar, Abinaya, Singha, Rajdeep, Agide, Zeleke, Peña, G., Ruiz-Bastidas, R. C., Taron, Avinandan, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

“…Biogas production through biodigesters is widely adopted, ranging from household systems to large-scale public–private partnerships. …”
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Rice demand and production projections for 2050: Opportunities for achieving self-sufficiency in Nepal by Timsina, Krishna Prasad, Gauchan, Devendra, Gairhe, Samaya, Subedi, Sushil Raj, Pokhrel, Bhanu Bhakta, Upadhyay, Santosh, Joshi, Krishna Dev, Pandey, Sunita, Shrestha, Jiban

“…It is playing a substantial role in food and nutritional security. Rice production is not sufficient to meet domestic consumption, so its import has been increasing. …”
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Alternate wetting and drying irrigation for rice in Bangladesh: is it sustainable and has plant breeding something to offer? by Price, Adam H., Norton, Gareth J., Salt, David E., Ebenhoeh, Oliver, Meharg, Andrew A., Meharg, Caroline, Islam, M. Rafiqul, Sarma, Ramen N., Dasgupta, Tapash, Ismail, Abdelbagi M., McNally, Kenneth L., Zhang, Hao, Dodd, Ian C., Davies, William J.

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G5: Coordination and Change Enabling by Collis, William

“…Learning depends on good information and feedback that will be derived from and delivered by an effective M&E system. G5 connects the research under each project across topics and scales, from household agriculture-aquaculture farming systems to community polder water management through to broader land use planning. …”
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Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia by Coggins, Sam, McDonald, Andrew, Silva, Joao Vasco, Urfels, Anton, Nayak, Hari, Sherpa, Sonam Rinchen, Jat, Mangi Lal, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Krupnik, Timothy J., Kumar, Virender, Malik, Ram, Sapkota, Tek, Nayak, Amaresh Kumar, Craufurd, Peter Q.

“…Nevertheless, strategies for increasing NUE without jeopardizing food security are uncertain in globally important cropping systems. …”
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