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Market and supermarket issues for development. Enhancing farmers' capacity to link with markets. por Campilan, D.

“…Traditional agricultural extension generally deals with production-focused, technology-driven learning content. Yet it is now widely acknowledged that farmers also need to acquire knowledge, skills and attitude to improve their participation in and benefit from market chains. …”
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Supporting the development of effective and efficient river basin arganizations in Asia: a discussion of the application of organizational benchmarking approaches. Draft por Makin, Ian W., Parks, Y. P., Arriens, W. L.

“…The initial work plan for the newly formed Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO) identified the development of systematic methods to support the development of effective stakeholder driven river basin organizations as one of NARBO’s priority activities. …”
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On-farm conservation of tropical fruit tree diversity: roles and motivations of custodian farmers and emerging threats and challenges por Sthapit, B.R., Vasudeva, R., Rajan, S., Sripinta, P., Reddy, B.M.C., Arsanti, I.W., Idris, S., Lamers, H., Ramanatha Rao, V.

“…We found that quite a few farmers maintain rich diversity with few rare and unique fruit tree species or varieties and are mainly driven by conservation ideology. The characteristics of such custodian farmers were identified and found to differ in their functions and motivations. …”
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East Coast fever caused by Theileria parva is characterized by macrophage activation associated with vasculitis and respiratory failure por Fry, Lindsay M., Schneider, D.A., Frevert, C.W., Nelson, D.D., Morrison, W. Ivan, Knowles, Donald P.

“…These data define a terminal ECF pathogenesis in which parasite-driven lymphoproliferation leads to secondary systemic macrophage activation syndrome, mononuclear vasculitis, pulmonary edema, respiratory failure and death. …”
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Evaluation of white yam (Dioscorea rotundata) genotypes for Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization, leaf nutrient concentrations and tuber yield under NPK fertilizer application por Dare, M.O., Fagbola, O., Abaidoo, Robert C., Asiedu, Robert

“…The effects of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) fertilizerrates on the AM colonization, leaf nutrient concentrations, and tuber yields of eleven genotypes ofDioscorea rotundata were investigated at Ibadan, Nigeria. …”
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Selection of cooking banana genotypes for yield and black Sigatoka resistance in different locations in Uganda por Tumuhimbise, Robooni, Buregyeya, H., Barekye, A., Ssali, R.T., Talengera, D., Kubiriba, Jerome, Muhangi, S., Namagembe, B., Namanya, P., Arinaitwe, G., Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K., Karamura, D., Karamura, E.B.

“…The objective of the present study was to select banana genotypes with stable and high performance for bunch yield and leaf black Sigatoka resistance. Eleven cooking banana genotypes developed by the Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization in collaboration with Bioversity International, and two check varieties were evaluated in multi-location preliminary yield trials in Uganda. …”
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Markets and climate are driving rapid change in farming practices in Savannah West Africa por Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Zougmoré, Robert B., Moussa, Abdoulaye S., Partey, Samuel T., Thornton, Philip K., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Badiane Ndour, Ndèye Yacine, Somé, Léopold, Naab, Jesse B., Boureima, Moussa, Diakite, L., Quirós, Carlos F.

“…Agricultural practices have constantly changed in West Africa, and understanding the factors that have driven the changes may help guide strategies to promote sustainable agriculture in the region. …”
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Evaluation of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes for drought stress adaptation in Ethiopia por Darkwa, K., Ambachew, Daniel, Mohammed, H., Asfaw, A., Blair, Matthew W.

“…All the assessed traits showed significantly different genotypic responses under drought stress and non-stress conditions. Eleven genotypes significantly (P ≤ 0.05) outperformed the drought check cultivar under both drought stress and non-stress conditions in seed yielding potential. …”
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Effects of extreme land fragmentation on wildlife and livestock population abundance and distribution por Said, Mohammed Yahya, Ogutu, Joseph O., Kifugo, S.C., Makui, O., Reid, Robin S., Leeuw, Jan de

“…Fragmentation, degradation and loss of natural habitats are now recognised as major threats to wildlife conservation and mobile pastoralism in East African savannas. These processes are driven primarily by land tenure and policy, increasing human population, expansion of settlements and agricultural farms, road networks, urban development and fencing. …”
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Effect of bias correction of satellite-rainfall estimates on runoff simulations at the source of the Upper Blue Nile por Habib, E., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Sazib, N., Zhang, Y., Rientjes, T.H.M.

“…Applying the space and time-fixed bias correction scheme resulted in slight improvement of the CMORPH-driven runoff simulations, but in some instances caused deterioration. …”
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Hydrological impacts of urbanization of two catchments in Harare, Zimbabwe por Gumindoga, W., Rientjes, T.H.M., Shekede, M.D., Rwasoka, D.T., Nhapi, I., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…Impact assessments were done through hydrological modeling by a topographically driven rainfall-runoff model (TOPMODEL). A satellite remote sensing based ASTER 30 metre Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was used to compute the Topographic Index distribution, which is a key input to the model. …”
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Participatory plant breeding: A framework for analyzing diverse approaches por Sperling, L., Ashby, Jacqueline A., Smith, Margaret E., Weltzien, Eva, McGuire, Shawn

“…Such clarity is essential if PPB is also to have the scientific and organizational foundations necessary lo judge its utility for a given objective.…”
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Index-based agricultural insurance products: challenges, opportunities and prospects for uptake in sub-Sahara Africa por Ntukamazina, Nepomuscene, Onwonga, Richard N., Sommer, Rolf, Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha, Mburu, John, Kariuki, Rahab

“…The current gap between high promise and low uptake calls for farmer-driven product design, strong public-private partnerships and improved quality and availability of weather data.…”
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Systematic Review of Methods in Low-Consensus Fields: Supporting Commensuration through `Construct-Centered Methods Aggregation’ in the Case of Climate Change Vulnerability Researc... por Delaney, Aogán, Tamás, Peter A., Crane, Todd A., Chesterman, Sabrina

“…Through the integration of reliable bottom-up inductive coding from operationalizations and top-down coding driven from stated theory with expert interpretation, construct-centered methods aggregation enabled both resolution of heterogeneity within identically named constructs and merging of differently labeled but identical constructs. …”
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Assessing the effects of policy change on households and children’s milk consumption in peri-urban Nairobi, Kenya por Schneider, F.A.

“…It furthermore fits a demand system to examine the shift in demand of food items and dairy products driven by income and prices. Therefore, expenditure and cross-price elasticities of milk and other food items are estimated. …”
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Participatory onfarm evaluation of the performance of droughttolerant maize varieties in the Guinea Savannas of Nigeria por Kamara, A., Kureh, I., Menkir, A., Kartung, P., Tarfa, B., Amaza, P.

“…In the relatively market-driven production systems in the communities in Borno State, the early-mahrring and high-yielding drought-tolerant variety (TZE-COMP 3 DT) was popular. …”
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Trends in farm labour productivity and implications for cassava industrialisation in Nigeria por Ezedinma, C.I., Okarter, C., Asumugha, G.N., Nweke, F.

“…Cassava production is primarily at the smallholder level relying heavily on the hoe and cutlass and driven by human physical effort. Agricultural farm labour is a critical factor as Nigeria strives to utilise cassava as an industrial crop. …”
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Economic valuation of land uses in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR: Can REDD+ be effective in maintaining forests? por Wong, Grace Y., Darachantara, S, Soukkhamthat, T.

“…The rapid economic growth in Lao PDR over the last two decades has been driven by the natural resource sectors and commercialization in the agriculture sector. …”
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Comments on "The Tropospheric Land-Sea Warming Contrast as the Driver of Tropical Sea Level Pressure Changes" por Makarieva, A.M., Gorshkov, V.G., Nefiodov, A.V., Sheil, D., Nobre, A.D., Li, B.L.

“…In their paper “The tropospheric land–sea warming contrast as the driver of tropical sea level pressure changes,” Bayr and Dommenget proposed a simple model of temperature-driven air redistribution to quantify the ratio between changes of sea level pressure ps and mean tropospheric temperature Ta in the tropics. …”
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Analysis of pig trading networks and practices in Uganda por Atherstone, Christine, Galiwango, R.G., Grace, Delia, Alonso, Silvia, Dhand, N.K., Ward, M.P., Mor, Siobhan M.

“…East Africa is undergoing rapid expansion of pig rearing, driven by increasing pork consumption. Introduction and expansion of pig production systems in this biodiverse landscape may create new risks, including zoonotic pathogen transmission. …”
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