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CGIAR International Centers Week, Washington, DC, October 26-30, 1992: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Iglesias, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, delivered the annual Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture on the role of research and technological change in agricultural development in Latin America. …”
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Food safety and adverse selection in rural maize markets by Kadjo, D., Ricker-Gilbert, J., Shively, G.E., Abdoulaye, Tahirou

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Vulnerability, climate change and livestock - opportunities and challenges for the poor by Thornton, Philip K., Herrero, Mario, Freeman, H.A., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Rege, J.E.O., Jones, Peter G., McDermott, John J.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from piggery and biogas digesters in the north of Vietnam by Pham Van Dung, Duong Cong Hoan, Arango, Jacobo, Tran Dai Nghia, Nguyen Tri Kien, Arévalo, Ashly, Douxchamps, Sabine

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Impact of gridded weather data sources and its temporal resolution on crop evapotranspiration and effective rainfall of major crops in eastern region of India by Paramaguru, Pradosh Kumar, Mali, Santosh Sambhaji, Shirsath, Paresh B.

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Stylosanthes for pasture development. An overview of ILCA's experience in Nigeria by Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…Traditionally, livestock rearing has been the specialised vocation of nomadic and transhumant pastoralists and therefore, for a long time, technological changes in livestock and feed production management strategies have been targeted at this group. …”
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Tackling moisture stress with drought-tolerant potato (Solanum tuberosum) varieties: Perception of Karnataka farmers. by Rana, R.K., Sharma, N., Arya, S., Singh, B.P., Kadian, M.S., Chaturvedi, R., Pandey, S.K.

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Determinants of nutrient balances in a maize farming system in eastern Uganda by Nkonya, Ephraim M., Kaizzi, Crammer, Pender, John L.

“…The results confirm the heavy reliance of smallholder farmers to soil fertility mining for their livelihoods. Agricultural potential, size of livestock herd, crop diversity, education, and having non-farm activities improve soil nutrient balances. …”
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Training Workshop for NARES and Private Sector on GapFinder: Monitoring Farmer Adoption of Sustainable Rice Practices by Suh, Neville, Ahouanton, Kokou, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott

“…To address this, AICCRA organized training for the National Agricultural Research and Extension Services (NARES), private sector stakeholders, and lead farmers in Mali on the use of Rice GAPfinder, a tool designed to benchmark farmers' practices and track their progress toward sustainable rice production. …”
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Determinants of credit repayment and fertilizer use by cooperative members in Ada District, East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region by Mijena, A.

“…A two-stage random sampling procedure was adopted to select five agricultural cooperatives and a total of 130 sample respondents from the district. …”
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A high-throughput regeneration and transformation platform for production of genetically modified banana by Tripathi, J.N., Oduor, R.O., Tripathi, L.

“…Such a platform will facilitate the transfer of technologies to national agricultural research systems (NARS) in Africa.…”
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Gender mainstreaming in local potato seed system in Georgia by Girard, I.

“…Based on the training results obtained in three target regions—Akhalkalaki, Akhaltsikhe, and Marneuli—it is evident that women are keen on learning new technologies and on acquiring updated agricultural information, including on potato production. …”
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Economic analysis of cross-breeding programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: A conceptual framework and Kenyan case study by Karugia, Joseph T., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Kaitho, R.J., Wollny, C.B.A., Drucker, Adam G., Rege, J.E.O.

“…The two models were developed by the Impact Assessment Group (2000) of Texas A&M University, USA, and applied to evaluate the impact of improved dairy technologies in Kenya in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). …”
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Seasonal mapping of irrigated winter wheat traits in Argentina with a hybrid retrieval workflow using sentinel-2 imagery by Caballero, Gabriel, Pezzola, Nestor Alejandro, Winschel, Cristina Ines, Casella, Alejandra An, Sanchez Angonova, Paolo Andres, Rivera Caicedo, Juan Pablo, Berger, Katja, Verrelst, Jochem, Delegido, Jesús

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Current situations of animal data recording, dairy improvement infrastructure, human capacity and strategic issues affecting dairy production in sub-Saharan Africa by Opoola, O., Mrode, Raphael A., Banos, Giorgios, Ojango, Julie M.K., Banga, C., Chagunda, Mizeck G.G.

“…Respondents comprised experts and practitioners in livestock production and genetic resources from research institutes, animal breeding companies, universities, non-governmental organisations and government agricultural ministries. The main dairy farming system in which the respondents were involved was mixed crop-livestock system (30.2%), and this was mainly practised in the private land tenure system (46.3%). …”
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Effective altruism as an ethical lens on research priorities by Garrett, Karen A., Alcala-Briseno, Ricardo, Andersen, Kelsey F., Brawner, Jeremy, Choudhury, Robin, Delaquis, Erik, Fayette, Joubert, Poudel, Ravin, Purves, Duncan, Rothschild, Jennifer, Small, Ian, Thomas-Sharma, Sara, Xing, Yanru

“…As decision-making becomes more consolidated and more networked in digital agricultural systems, the range of ethical considerations expands. …”
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ICARDA and SAHARA & Sahel Observatory: Building Resilient Pastoral Systems by Frija, Aymen

“…Through policy engagement, advocacy, dialogues, and scaling of proven technologies and methodologies, ICARDA aims to transform pastoralism systems towards climate change adaptation and resilience. …”
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Model collaboration for the improved assessment of biomass supply, demand, and impacts by Wicke, Birka, van der Hilst, Floor, Daioglou, Vassilis, Banse, Martin, Beringer, Tim, Gerssen-Gondelach, Sarah, Heijnen, Sanne, Karssenberg, Derek, Laborde Debucquet, David, Lippe, Melvin, van Meijl, Hans, Nassar, André, Powell, Jeff, Gerdien Prins, Anne, Rose, Steve N. K., Smeets, Edward M. W., Stehfest, Elke, Tyner, Wallace E., Verstegen, Judith A., Valin, Hugo, van Vuuren, Detlef P., Yeh, Sonia, Faaij, André P. C.

“…These research areas are livestock production, agricultural residues, and greenhouse gas emissions from land‐use change. …”
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Economic impact of canavalia brasiliensis hay supplementation in beef cattle farming in the Colombian Caribbean. by Junca Paredes, John Jairo, Mojica Rodríguez, José Edwin, Castro Rincón, Edwin, Sotelo Cabrera, Mauricio Efren, Burkart, Stefan

“…The identified benefits of such technological change underscore the imperative of fostering the adoption of new practices among small-scale cattle farmers.…”
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Molecular diversity studies in sweet corn inbred lines using Single Nucleotide Polymorphic markers by Somanatha, Patil, Ayyanagouda, Kuchanur, Prakash, Nair, Sudha, B. Kisan, Yeri, Sharanabasappa B, Vinayan, Madhumal Thayil, Zaidi, Pervez H.

“…Advances in genotyping technologies have transformed the way breeding programs manage their genetic resources. …”
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