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Actors and landscape changes in tropical Latin America: challenges for REDD+ design and implementation by Pacheco, P., Aguilar-Støen, M., Borner, J., Etter, A., Putzel, L., Vera-Diaz, M.D.C.

“…Five dominant trends are occurring in tropical Latin America with implications for land use change: (1) rapid growth of agribusiness, (2) expansion and modernisation of traditional cattle ranching, (3) slow growth of small-scale agriculture, (4) logging in production forest frontiers and (5) resurgence of traditional agro-extractive economies. These trends are driven by global markets and national policies, and have significant impacts on landscape change, with diverse associated trade-offs between agricultural development and forest conservation, and impacts on people’s livelihoods. …”
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Population attributable fractions of farm vector tick (Rhipicephalus appendiculatus) presence on Theileria parva infection seroprevalence under endemic instability by Gachohi, John M., Kitala, P.M., Ngumi, P.N., Skilton, Robert A., Bett, Bernard K.

“…The partitioned PAF (15.5% [95% CI: 1.5%, 29.6%]) suggested that part of the impacts estimated using the stratified PAF and Bruzzi approaches was driven by AEZ effects. Overall, the results suggested that under endemic instability in Mbeere district, (1) presence of R. appendiculatus was not a good indicator of T. parva infection occurrence on a farm; (2) ecological variation could play a role in determining infection impacts. …”
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Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, J.L., Tesfay, G.

“…These findings suggest collective action may be more beneficial and more effective when managed at a more local level, when the role of external organizations is more demand-driven, and when promoted in intermediate population density communities more remote from markets. …”
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Community-based model for rabies control in Bali: An EcoHealth Approach by Jatikusumah, A., Darmawan, R.D., Widyastuti, M.D.W., Sunandar, Basuno, E., Putra, A.A.G., Willyanto, I., Estoepangestie, S., Gilbert, Jeffrey

“…As part of a project “Ecohealth Approaches for Optimizing the Rabies Control Program in Bali”, organized by CIVAS, with support from the IDRC and led by ILRI, within the project, we developed and piloted a community-based model for sustainable rabies control driven by community involvement in two villages in Karangasem and Gianyar districts in Bali. …”
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Decentralising Zimbabwe’s water management: The case of Guyu-Che- lesa irrigation scheme by Tambudzai, Rashirayi, Everisto, Mapedza, Gideon, Zhou

“…Smallholder irrigation schemes are largely supply driven such that they exclude the beneficiaries on the management decisions and the choice of the irrigation schemes that would best suit their local needs. …”
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Shifting towards market-oriented irrigated crops development as an approach to improve the income of farmers: Evidence from northern Ethiopia by Woldewahid, G., Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Berhe, Kahsay, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…The transformation processes are based on market-oriented diversification into high value irrigated crops, based on a value chain approach, and demand driven, participatory and knowledge based extension. …”
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Improving agricultural water productivity: between optimism and caution by David, S., Oweis, Theib Y., Steduto, P., Bindraban, Prem S., Hanjra, Munir A., Kijne, Jacob W.

“…Priority areas where substantive increases in water productivity are possible include: (i) areas where poverty is high and water productivity is low, (ii) areas of physical water scarcity where competition for water is high, (iii) areas with little water resources development where high returns from a little extra water use can make a big difference, and (iv) areas of water-driven ecosystem degradation, such as falling groundwater tables, and river desiccation. …”
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Comparative polygenic analysis of maximal ethanol accumulation capacity and tolerance to high ethanol levels of cell proliferation in yeast by Pais, TM, Foulquié Moreno, Maria R., Hubmann, Georg, Duitama, Jorge, Swinnen, S, Goovaerts, A, Yang, Y., Dumortier, F, Thevelein, JM

“…Plotting SNP variant frequency against chromosomal position revealed eleven and eight Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for the two traits, respectively, and showed that the genetic basis of the two traits is partially different. …”
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Predicted changes in herd immunity levels against Rift Valley fever virus in livestock following a natural exposure 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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Abiotic stress research in crops using -omics approaches: drought stress and banana in the spotlight by Kissel, E., Vanhove, A.C., García, S., Panis, Bartholomeus, Rouard, M., Cenci, A., Roux, N., Zorrilla, J., Swennen, Rony L., Carpentier, Sebastien C.

“…Ultimately, plant phenotype is driven by genes operating to regulate growth combined with environmental limitations. …”
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Organic bananas in Sudan: challenges and opportunities for developing export chains by Waal, J.W.H. van der, Clercx, J., Gutiérrez Gonzalez, G., Elhassan, B., Babiker, S., Bolton, M.

“…The project entailed a demand-driven coherent design of an export chain. For the European market, the potential to grow organic bananas is promising, as Sudan offers fertile soils with a climate exerting low disease pressure. …”
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Assessing impacts of pathogen-tested sweetpotato planting materials in Central Luzon, Philippines by Basilio, Carlos, Tablarin, Rizalina, Porciuncula, Fe, Dolores, Lolit

“…The paper explores the use of the following elements - problem-based agenda, impact-driven objectives, field-based action, user responsiveness, household orientation, livelihood systems framework, integration of scientific and local knowledge, interdisciplinary mode and inter-institutional partnerships, as touchstones for assessing PR&D processes.…”
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Do mature innovation platforms make a difference in agricultural research for development? a meta-analysis of case studies by Schut, Marc, Cadilhon, Joseph J., Misiko, Michael T., Dror, Iddo

“…If the IP processes are truly demand-driven, participatory and based on collective investment and action, they have the ability to bring together committed stakeholders, and result in innovations that are technically sound, locally adapted, economically feasible for farmers, and socially, culturally and politically acceptable. …”
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Developing data interoperability using standards: A wheat community use case by Dzale-Yeumo, E., Alaux, M., Arnaud, Elizabeth, Aubin, S., Baumann, U., Buche, P., Cooper, Laurel D., Cwiek-Kupczynska, H., Davey, R.P., Fulss, R.A., Jonquet, C., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Larmande, Pierre, Pommier, C., Protonotarios, V., Reverte, C., Shrestha, R., Subirats, I., Venkatesan, A., Whan, A., Quesneville, H.

“…To maximize the adoption of the recommendations, the WDI-WG used a community-driven approach that involved the wheat research community from the start, took into account their needs and practices, and provided them with a framework to keep the recommendations up to date. …”
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Assessment of striga infestation in crop fields in the savanna zones of northeast Nigeria by Dugje, I.Y., Kamara, A.Y., Omoigui, L.O.

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Potential of drought-tolerant maize varieties in nitrogen-deficient soils of the Guinea savannas by Kamara, A.Y., Menkir, A., Omoigui, L.O., Kureh, I.

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Future climate change scenarios in Central America at high spatial resolution by Imbach, Pablo, Chou, Sin Chan, Lyra, André, Rodrigues, Daniela, Rodríguez, Daniel, Latinovic, Dragan, Siqueira, Gracielle, Silva, Adan, Garofolo, Lucas, Georgiou, Selena

“…The objective of this work is to assess the downscaling projections of climate change over Central America at 8-km resolution using the Eta Regional Climate Model, driven by the HadGEM2-ES simulations of RCP4.5 emission scenario. …”
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Assessing the role of market integration in the consumption of traditional foods in Benin: a joint price instability coefficient and diet composition approach by Honfoga, B.G., N’tandou-Bonzitou, G., Vodouhe, R.S., Bellon, M.R., Hounhouigan, Joseph D.

“…Globalization-driven food trade policies and the transformations of food regimes have led to modernizing food habits and the growing substitution of traditional foods by introduced/industrialized foods in the diets of urban people in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Impacts of land use, restoration, and climate change on tropical peat carbon stocks in the twenty-first century: implications for climate mitigation by Warren, M., Frolking, S., Zhaohua, D., Kurnianto, S.

“…The large difference was driven by increased fire probability. Therefore, peat fire suppression is an effective management tool to maintain tropical peatland C stocks in the near term and should be a high priority for climate mitigation efforts. …”
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Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world by Ellison, D., Morris, C.E., Locatelli, Bruno, Sheil, D., Cohen, J., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Gutiérrez, V., Noordwijk, M. van, Creed, I.F., Pokorny, J., Gaveau, D.L.A., Spracklen, D.V., Tobella, A B., Ilstedt, Ulrik, Teuling, A.J., Gebrehiwot, S.G., Sands, D.C., Muys, B., Verbist, B., Springgay, E., Sugandi, Y., Sullivan, C.A.

“…Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. …”
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