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Research and innovation priorities for enabling legume scaling for development outcomes in Zambia by Varley, Ciara, Johnston, Angharad, Kinkese, Theresa, Recha, John W.M., Breen, Caitlin, Alamu, Emmanual, Ndlovu, Noel, Silumesi, Mwala, Mushangure, Remeredzai O, Kalumo, Decolius, Longwe, Kareem, Kaonga, Tione P., Munthali, Timalizge, McLaughlin, Isabel, Mashizha, Tinashe, Marenya, Paswel, Chikoye, David, Spillane, Charles

“…The workshop was organised around the six work packages of the LEG4DEV project where workshop participants worked in five interdisciplinary teams to identify their highest priority research questions (both technical and policy/institutional) that the LEG4DEV project research could focus on in Zambia to better enable legume scaling.…”
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Research and innovation priorities for enabling legume scaling for development outcomes in Tanzania by Varley, Ciara, Johnston, Angharad, Recha, John W.M., Ndlovu, Noel, Longwe, Kareem, Munthali, Timalizge W, Silumesi, Mwala, Mushangure, Remeredzai O, Kalumo, Decolius, Kaonga, Tione P, Kinkese, Theresa, Breen, Caitilin, Mullen, Anne, Murray, Una, McKeown, Peter, Baijukya, Frederick P., Chikoye, David, Spillane, Charles

“…The workshop was organised around the six work packages of the LEG4DEV project where workshop participants worked in interdisciplinary teams to identify their highest priority research questions (both technical and policy/institutional) that the LEG4DEV project research could focus on in Tanzania to better enable legume scaling at the national level.…”
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Gender Mainstreaming in Sweetpotato Breeding in Uganda: A Case Study by Ssali, R.T., Mayanja, S., Nakitto, M., Mutiso, J.M., Tinyiro, S.E., Bayiyana, I., Okello, J.J., Forsythe, L., Magala, D., Yada, B., Mwanga, Robert O.M., Polar, Vivian

“…Low uptake of new varieties is partly attributed to previous focus by breeders on agronomic traits and much less on quality traits and the diverse preferences of men and women in sweetpotato value chains.To address this gap, breeders, food scientists, and social scientists (including gender specialists) systematically mainstreamed gender into the breeding program. …”
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Digital landscape assessment for climate services : Asian Mega Deltas by Giles, James, Bich, Ngoc Vu Thi, Khanam, Fahmida, Khaung, Ye, Soksophors, Yim, Le, Thi Tam, Phanna, Khieng, Chou, Phanith, Bora, Chan Borey, Phyu, Thant, Amjath-Babu, Tharayil Shereef, Swaans, Cornelis

“…The study contributes to Work Package 3 (WP 3) on derisking delta orientated value chains through bundled digital climate advisory services (DCAS+), and focuses on Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. …”
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Capacity assessment to support food systems transformation towards sustainable healthy diets in Bangladesh: Exploring the capabilities of the SHiFT strategic partners by Namugumya, Brenda S., Abedin, Jainal, Herens, Marion

“…Both Strategic Partners, the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) and the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC), have long histories and well-established structures for collaboration and coordination with diverse stakeholders to realize the nutrition-focused (BNNC) and the food-related (FPMU) ambitions of the Government of Bangladesh. …”
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Mapping and profiling CGIAR R4D food systems work in Uganda by Muganga, Andrew, Wairagala, Pamela

“…The rationale of this exercise was to provide information that can be used for strategic guidance, better coherence, convergence, and alignment of priorities and results among CGIAR research teams and their partners from the government, non-government, and private sectors. …”
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An analysis of the investment climate for promoting circular bioeconomy: a cross-country analysis of some emerging economies by Taron, Avinandan, Bhandarkar, S., Rajeev, M., Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.

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EcoHealth research in Southeast Asia: Past, now, and the ways forward by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Gilbert, Jeffrey, Dinh Xuan Tung, Mallee, H., Unger, Fred, Grace, Delia

“…However, the challenges remain at the project design and implementation level but also on the available capacity and coordination to develop EcoHealth research and teams in the countries as well as the issue of EcoHealth scaling-up. …”
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CGIAR modeling approaches for resource-constrained scenarios: I. Accelerating crop breeding for a changing climate by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Molero Milan, Anabel, Alexandrov, Nickolai, Asseng, Senthold, Challinor, Andrew J., Crossa, José, Eeuwijk, Fred A. van, Ghanem, Michel Edmond, Grenier, Cécile, Heinemann, Alexandre B., Wang, Jiankang, Juliana, Philomin, Kehel, Zakaria, Kholová, Jana, Koo, Jawoo, Pequeno, Diego Notelo Luz, Quiróz, Roberto, Rebolledo, Maria C., Sukumaran, Sivakumar, Vadez, Vincent, White, Jeffrey W., Reynolds, Matthew P.

“…Here, we address this question by critically reviewing how model-based approaches can be used to assist breeding activities, with particular focus on all CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research but now known simply as CGIAR) breeding programs. …”
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Training of health workers and traditional leaders on maternal and child nutrition and optimal practices for inclusion of animal-source foods in healthy diets in Uganda by Ouma, Emily A., Ahumuza, Ronnie, Ahmed, Hardi, Omosa, Esther, Achandi, Esther, Ngalombi, Sarah, Ahumuza, Laura, Teufel, Nils, Molina, Teresa

“…The intervention was implemented by health workers, specifically the village health teams (VHTs) through a cluster-randomized controlled trial design with three study arms in Mukono and Masaka districts as follows: 1. …”
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Utvärdering av AB Karl Hedins traktdirektiv och traktplanering by Andersson, Peter

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Enhancing the capacity of local communities to access crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation by Otieno, Gloria Atieno, N’Danikou, Sognigbe, Bossou, Bienvenu, Mikpon, Toussaint, Vodouhe, Raymond, Recha, John W.M., Halewood, Michael

“…CCAFS, with support from projects funded by the Darwin Initiative (Mutually support implementation of the ITPGRFA and the Nagoya Protocol), the Netherlands (Genetic Resources Policy Initiative) and GIZ (the ABS Capacity Development Initiative), supported the introduction in a group of communities called Tori-Bossito of participatory methods to identify potentially useful plant genetic resources for experimentation by farmers and plant breeders. The research teams focused on maize, CCAF S INFO NOTE 2 which was selected by the farmers as it is particularly important for their food security in Tori- Bossito.…”
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Parodontal sjukdom hos hund by Yngvesson, Philip

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Inclusion of gender equality in monitoring and evaluation of climate services by Gumucio, Tatiana, Huyer, Sophia, Hansen, James, Simelton, Elisabeth, Partey, Samuel T., Schwager, Saroja

“…It is also critical to meet the minimum standards for sex-disaggregated data collection and analysis to ensure that gender trends can be accurately assessed. The paper then focuses on considerations specific to rural climate services. …”
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Mapping and engaging university partners on gender in food, land and water systems by Nchanji, Eileen, Robinson, Tieminie, Lutomia, Cosmas, Elias, Marlene

“…Although some of the participant universities in Africa have a dedicated school or center focusing on gender, most do not have dedicated gender-studies departments, and their institutional leadership reportedly shows limited commitment to and prioritization of gender. …”
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An Alliance for Accelerated Change: Food system solutions at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and nutrition - Strategy 2020–2025 by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…Our planet – both humans and the natural world – faces four global crises of relevance to the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT): climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and the so-called triple burden of malnutrition – hunger, nutrient deficiencies, and overnutrition. …”
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The future of food: domestication and commercialization of indigenous food crops in Africa over the third decade (2012–2021) by Leakey, R.R.B., Tientcheu Avana, M.-L., Awazi, N. P., Assogbadjo, A. E., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Hendre, P. S., Degrande, A., Hlahla, S., Manda, L.

“…From its advent in the 1990s, the domestication of indigenous food and non-food tree species has become a global programme with a strong African focus. This review of progress in the third decade is restricted to progress in Africa, where multi-disciplinary research on over 59 species has been reported in 759 research papers in 318 science publications by scientists from over 833 research teams in 70 countries around the world (532 in Africa). …”
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Understanding adoption of conservation agriculture practices in Southern Africa: insights from household and community surveys and their implication for scaling: a synthesis report... by Chikoye, D., Alene, A., Hirpa Tufa, A., Ngoma, H., Marenya, P., Thierfelder, C.

“…This report presents results from qualitative and quantitative surveys conducted by the ACASA project teams covering 24 districts, 305 villages, and 4,374 households across three countries in Southern Africa. …”
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Licensing of public plant varieties: the case of CSIR by Kuhlmann, Katrin, Nalinya, Adron Naggayi, Botey, Mireku, Puozaa, Doris Kanvenaa, Gichuru, Lilian, Ojiewo, Chris Ochieng

“…Internally, CSIR could establish comprehensive DUS protocols for more crops, especially in AVISA focus area, and advocate for waiver of PVP registration fees for public varieties to reduce financial burdens and encourage innovation, with a focus on PVP for varieties that have the most market potential. …”
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CPWF Annual Report 2007 by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…All of them are conducted by teams formed from partnerships of notable scope, breadth and diversity. …”
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