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Evaluation of growth and reproductive performance of Borana cattle and their crosses with Friesian at Abernossa, Shoa, Ethiopia por Hailemariam, M.

“…The difference among the breed groups was not significant but both year and season of conception had significant influence. …”
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Effects on production of milking crossbred suckler cows grazing a semi-arid area of Kenya. III. Post-weaning growth of crossbred calves por Anindo, D.O., Topps, J.H.

“…In experiments 2 and 3, each of the 4 groups of calves was sub-divided to give equal numbers of calves either receiving or not receiving a small amount (<less or =>1 kg/day) of weaner pellets. …”
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Efficacy of benzimidazole anthelmintics in goats and sheep in the Philippines using a larval development assay por Ancheta, P.B., Dumilon, R.A., Venturina, V.M., Cerbito, W.A., Dobson, R.J., LeJambre, L.F., Villar, E.C., Gray, G.D.

“…The negative effects of nematodes in small ruminants can be reduced by use of dewormers but their effectiveness is increasingly limited by the emergence of anthelmintic resistance. …”
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Globalization and the nutrition transition: A case study por Hawkes, Corinna

“…The benefit of leveraging policies designed to integrate global food markets to encourage healthy diets is that relatively small changes at a macro-scale can have relatively large population-wide impacts.; Your assignment is to advise a government of a middle-income developing country about appropriate policies to mitigate the negative effects of the nutrition transition in the context of globalization, taking into account the interests of the various stakeholder groups.…”
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Diversity of threatened local mango landraces on smallholder farms in Eastern Kenya por Gitahi, Robert, Kasili, Remmy, Kyallo, Martina M., Kehlenbeck, Katja

“…Mango fruits are highly nutritious and economically important to Kenyan farmers, who cultivate three categories of cultivars/landraces; local small-fruited, local big-fruited and improved, introduced cultivars. …”
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DESIGNING LOCALIZED INTERVENTIONS USING THE CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT PLANNING METHODOLOGY por Tesfaye, Lidya Ayalew, Jalango, Dorcas Anyango, Binge, Brenda Binge, Mundia, Carolyne Wanjiru, Otieno, Felix Owino

“…The manual emphasizes participatory, gender-responsive approaches and the use of evidence-based planning to address climate risks in priority value chains such as small-scale irrigation, small ruminant production, and poultry. …”
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Marketing value-chain of smallholder sheep and goats in crop-livestock mixed farming system of Alaba, Southern Ethiopia por Kocho, T., Abebe, G., Tegegne, Azage, Gebremedhin, Berhanu

“…Smallholder producers, small and large traders, brokers, transporters and consumers are the major market participant across the market channels. …”
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Hot water immersion disinfests enset (Ensete ventricosum) suckers from the enset root mealybug Cataenococcus ensete Williams and Matile-Ferrero por Lemawork, S., Azerefegne, F., Alemu, T., Addis, T., Blomme, Guy

“…Complete mealybug mortality was obtained for 60 s at 55°C and at 10 and 30 s exposure times at 75 and 95°C without affecting the performance of enset suckers of all size groups. Considering the ease of using boiling water for small-scale enset farmers, immersing suckers for at least 10 and up to 30 s at 95°C is advocated in order to eliminate all enset root mealybugs from enset suckers. …”
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Impacts of Africa RISING in Ghana por Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Castaing, Pauline, Kizito, Fred, Vitellozzi, Sveva, Boukaka, Sedi Anne

“…We also conduct a placebo test comparing non-beneficiaries in the two control groups. Results from panel data analyses show improvements in several indicators in the environmental and productivity domains. …”
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Actors and landscape changes in tropical Latin America: challenges for REDD+ design and implementation por 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. …”
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Exotic dairy breed turns into exhausted dairy breed when forced to reproduce, lactate and perform work at the same time: On-farm testing of multipurpose breed, experience from Hole... por Larsen, C.E.S., Kumsa, T., Tegegne, Azage

“…The question also remains if heavy Boran x Friesian crosses is the right breed for small-scale farmers.…”
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Increasing fish farm profitability through aquaculture best management practice training in Egypt por Dickson, M., Nasr-Allah, A.M., Al-Kenawy, D.A.R., Kruijssen, Froukje

“…Average fish yields and values were similar between the two groups, although BMP farms produced less small-sized tilapia and more mullet than the control farms. …”
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Vad som avgör hur nöjd skogsägaren är med en virkesaffär efter storm por Mellåker, Julia, Åhs, Johan

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ESRC-DFID Research for policy and practice: water security por Bioversity International

“…This small snapshot provides useful insights for what is needed to tackle the global water crisis. …”
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Validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire for dietary factors related to colorectal cancer por Tollosa, Daniel Nigusse, Van Camp, John, Huybrechts, Inge, Huybregts, Lieven, Van Loco, Joris

“…Mean differences in the intake of foods and nutrients between FFQ1 and FFQ2 were, overall, small and statistically insignificant. However, a higher estimation was observed by FFQ1 as compared to the 3-DD method for the majority of food groups and nutrient intake in the validity assessment. …”
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Traditional breeding objectives and practices of goat, sheep and cattle smallholders in The Gambia and implications in relation to the design of breeding interventions por Ejlertsen, M., Poole, Elizabeth J., Marshall, Karen

“…The most important objectives for keeping all species of livestock for the poorer groups (0 to 10 cattle) was 'savings and insurance', followed by 'income' and 'ceremonial/dowry' for the small ruminants and 'manure' and 'draught' for both cows and bulls. …”
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Growth performance and carcass characteristics of Tanzanian goats fed Chloris gayana hay with different levels of protein supplement por Mtenga, L.A., Kitaly, A.J.

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Validation of the world food programme’s food consumption score and alternative indicators of household food security por Wiesmann, Doris, Bassett, Lucy, Benson, Todd, Hoddinott, John F.

“…By comparing indicator performance, we can answer the questions of whether the FCS could be simplified by using food group diversity instead of food frequency by food group, if further disaggregation of food groups would improve its validity, and what the merits and demerits of other aspects of WFP’s standard method are. …”
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Små skogliga vattendrag i Värmland por Bergkvist, Åsa

“…The aim of this thesis was to give a general description of small forest streams of order-one in the county of Värmland and to determine the frequency of machine tracks in small streams. …”
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An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh por Hallman, Kelly, Lewis, David, Begum, Suraiya

“…The first is new vegetable seeds developed by AVRDC introduced in Saturia to women owning small amounts of land by a local NGO, based on a training and credit dissemination approach. …”
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