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Scaling up agroforestry to achieve food security and environmental protection among smallholder farmers in Malawi by Beedy, Tracy, Ajayi, Oluyede C., Sileshi, Gudeta W., Kundhlande G, Chiundu G, Simons AJ

“…However, difficulties were encountered in transporting tree seeds and seedlings across eleven districts in a timely fashion, and in managing the flow of reporting and disbursements of funding among such a large group of collaborators. …”
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Simulating rural environmentally and socio-economically constrained multi-activity and multi-decision societies in a low-data context: A challenge through empirical agent-based mod... by Saqalli, M., Gerard, Bruno G., Bielders, Charles L., Defourny, Pierre

“…However, such sites lack the necessary amount of reliable, checkable data and information, while these very constraining factors determine the populations' evolutions, such as villagers living in Sahelian environments. Beyond a game-theory model that leads to a premature selection of the relevant variables, we build an individual-centered, empirical, KIDS-oriented (Keep It Descriptive & Simple), and multidisciplinary agent-based model focusing on the villagers\' differential accesses to economic and production activities according to social rules and norms, mainly driven by social criteria from which gender and rank within the family are the most important, as they were observed and registered during individual interviews. …”
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Genetic population structure of cacao plantings within a young production area in Nicaragua by Trognitz, B., Scheldeman, Xavier, Hansel-Hohl, K., Kuant, A., Grebe, H., Hermann, M.

“…For explaining the spatial stratification of the genotype spectra, both human intervention and a combination of management and selection driven by environmental conditions, appear responsible. …”
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Discuter les approches conventionnelles de gestion de l’utilisation des eaux usees en agriculture. In French. [Challenging conventional approaches to managing wastewater use in agr... by Huibers, F., Redwood, M., Raschid-Sally, Liqa

“…Conventional models for urban wastewater treatment and management are based on top-down, mechanically driven approaches that do not, or do not sufficiently, consider the links between the social, economic and health aspects. …”
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Pro-poor irrigation management transfer? by International Water Management Institute

“…Driven largely by financial pressures, many governments are transferring full or partial management responsibility for irrigation systems from government agencies to farmers organized into Water User Associations (WUAs). …”
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Environment flows: moving from concepts to application, a case study from India by Bharati, Luna, Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Eriyagama, Nishadi, Anand, B.K.

“…The importance of explicit accounting for monthly variability in description of water supply and demands in the conditions of monsoon-driven climate of the region is advocated. Similarly, the need to ensure environmental flows should also be considered in the context of seasonal variability, as it is mostly in the dry months that water allocation problems become critical. …”
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Livestock in mixed farming systems in South Asia by Parthasarathy Rao, P., Birthal, P.S.

“…On the demand side, an important factor contributing to the change has been the growing demand for livestock products (milk and meat) driven by income growth, urbanization and changes in tastes and preferences in the region. …”
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Generalized seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models for count data with application to malaria time series with low case numbers by Briet, Olivier J.T., Amerasinghe, Priyanie H., Vounatsou, Penelope

“…Methods: Generalized autoregressive moving average (GARMA) models were extended to generalized seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (GSARIMA) models for parsimonious observation-driven modelling of non Gaussian, non stationary and/or seasonal time series of count data. …”
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The last will be first: water transfers from agriculture to cities in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania by Komakech, H.C., Zaag, P. van der, van Koppen, Barbara

“…The emerging water conflicts between farmers and cities described in this paper have been driven by the fact that domestic use by city residents has, by law, priority over other types of use. …”
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Regionalization of a conceptual rainfall runoff model based on similarity of the flow duration curve: a case study from Karkheh River Basin, Iran. [Abstract only]. by Masih, Ilyas, Uhlenbrock, Silke, Ahmad, M.D., Maskey, S.

“…FDCs for ungauged basins are defined using developed regional regression relationships between the parameters of a logarithmic FDC model and physiographic catchment characteristics of eleven gauged catchments. The results suggest that the proposed method could be successfully applied for the estimation of ungauged streamflows in the mountainous parts of the Karkheh river basin. …”
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An integrated framework for assessing vulnerability to climate change and developing adaptation strategies for coffee growing families in Mesoamerica by Baca, María, Läderach, Peter R.D., Haggar, Jeremy P., Götz, Schroth, Ovalle Rivera, Oriana

“…Focus groups were used to identify nine indicators of sensitivity and eleven indicators of adaptive capacity, which were evaluated through semi-structured interviews with 558 coffee producers. …”
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Development and delivery of bean varieties in Africa: the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) model by Buruchara, Robin Arani, Chirwa, Rowland, Sperling, L., Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha, Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel, Abang, Mathew M.

“…The breeding strategy involved the paradigm shift from a monolithic approach where varieties were bred for yield or resistance to single environmental stresses, to a grain type-led and market-driven approach. The PABRA model comprises partnerships between and among Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS), public and private sector actors along the varied bean product value chains, and technology end-users. …”
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Agro-ecological adaptation and participatory evaluation of multipurpose tree and shrub legumes in mid altitudes of Sud-Kivu, D.R. Congo by Katunga Musale, Dieudonné, Muhigwa, BJB, Kashala, KJC, Kambuyi, M, Nyongombe, N, Maass, Brigitte L., Peters, Michael

“…Trees and shrubs were planted randomly in eleven lines, with each species/accession consisting of nine plants split into three replications. …”
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Assessment of farmers' view on the current use of manure around Holetta Agric.Res. Center by Kumsa, T., Madsen, J.O., Tegegne, Azage

“…Eleven percent only contended manure use must be confined to fertilizer utilization while about 16 percent underlined the importance of both functions and noted sharing manure between these two uses is a judicious act. …”
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Impacts of tsetse control on migration, livestock production, cropping practices and farmer-herder conflicts in the Mouhoun valley of southern Burkina Faso by Kamuanga, M., Antoine, C., Brasselle, A.S., Swallow, B.M., D'Ieteren, G.D.M., Bauer, B.

“…Their decision to settle appears to have been driven by such factors as drought and poverty that pushed people out of the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso. …”
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Runoff and sediment monitoring in an agricultural watershed in the Ethiopian Highlands by Zehetbauer I, Strohmeier S, Ziadat, Feras M., Klik, Andreas

“…As a consequence of the surface runoff driven regime in the gullies, huge amounts of sediment were observed during heavy rainfall events. …”
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ILRI's partnership strategy and management system by International Livestock Research Institute

“…A new way of doing science is the consequence of this commitment to impact-driven engagement in research for development. Partnerships among multiple actors are at the centre of such an approach to science and ILRI';s strategy highlights working through partnerships. …”
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Rift Valley fever: Influence of herd immunity patterns on transmission dynamics by Gachohi, John M., Bett, Bernard K.

“…It is presumed that herd immunity plays an important role in modifying the length of these intervals given that the risk of an epidemic intensifies when herd immunity is low. …”
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Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture by Negra, Christine, Vermeulen, Sonja J., Barioni, Luís Gustavo, Mamo, Tekalign, Melville, Paul, Tadesse, Melaku

“…Brazil has invested in research to support sustainable intensification while creating legal and enforcement mechanisms to protect forest areas as a response to unrestrained agricultural expansion driven by market demand. Ethiopia initiated innovative participatory watershed development programs, in partnership with numerous international institutions, which helped smallholder farmers to rehabilitate marginal land and break out of a poverty cycle. …”
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International Conference Enhanced Genepool Utilization - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16-20 June 2014. Book of Ab... by Dias, S., Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan, Maxted, Nigel, Kell, S., Thörn, E., Smith, L., Preston, J., Hutchinson, S.

“…This conference presents the culmination of the PGR Secure project (www.pgrsecure.org) – a collaborative project involving eleven partners funded under the EU Seventh Framework Programme, THEME KBBE.2010.1.1-03, 'Characterization of biodiversity resources for wild crop relatives to improve crops by breeding', Grant agreement no. 266394. …”
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