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Shea butter: A pro-poor, pro-female route to increased income por Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van, Pagella, Tim, Carpena, Pietro, Skirrow, Tom, Dauncey, Victoria

“…Increasing agricultural productivity does not often provide a viable route out of poverty or hunger for the poorest households, because their farms tend to be small with low yield potential. …”
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A stony track towards innovation in remote highland regions: Agricultural intensification in the apricot sector of Northern Pakistan por Köster, Mareike, Alam, Iftikhar, Rana, Jai, Wiehle, Martin, Buerkert, Andreas

“…Abstract Background Traditional farming practices of remote highland regions are usually well adapted to the local agro-ecological and social conditions. …”
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Agroforestry leads to shifts within the gammaproteobacterial microbiome of banana plants cultivated in Central America por Koberl, M., Dita, M., Martinuz, A., Staver, Charles, Berg, G.

“…However, indicator species for each microenvironment and country, as well as for plants grown in Coffea intercropping systems with and without agri-silvicultural production of different Fabaceae trees (Inga spp. in Nicaragua and Erythrina poeppigiana in Costa Rica) could be identified. …”
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Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA por Enete, A., Nweke, F., Tollens, E.

“…While the number of fields in which women provided more labour for each farm task increased consistently from the initial farm operations, such as land clearing and seedbed preparation, through sowing (planting) and weeding to the final farm operations such as harvesting and transportation, for which women provided more labour for the largest number of fields, the reverse was the case for men. …”
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Variability Assessment of Aromatic Rice Germplasm by Pheno-Genomic traits and Population Structure Analysis por Islam, M.Z., Khalequzzaman, M., Bashar, Khairul, Ivy, N.A., Mian, M.A.K., Pittendrigh, B.R., Haque, M.M., Ali, M.P.

“…Genetic diversity and population structure of aromatic germplasm provide valuable information for yield improvement which has potential market value and farm profit. Here, we show diversity and population structure of 113 rice germplasm based on phenotypic and genotypic traits. …”
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Managing local fodder species for a competitive gender-sensitive goat value chain: achievements and lessons learnt from Climate-Smart Villages in northern Ghana por Avornyo, Franklin K., Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T.

“…Considering this need, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has been using its Climate-Smart Village (CSV) approach to test and promote the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) interventions such as the management of useful fodder tree and shrub species. This research for development work was initiated in 2016 and implemented through various steps. …”
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Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan Social Forestry Program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia por Pender, John L., Suyanto, S., Kerr, John M., Kato, Edward

“…HKm has had mixed impacts on profits, with timber trees reducing profitability because timber harvesting is not allowed and multipurpose nontimber trees contributing to increased profits. …”
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A Practical Guide to Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in Africa por Bell, Patrick, Namoi, Nictor, Lamanna, Christine, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Thierfelder, Christian L., Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted since 2011 to increase productivity, improve resilience to climate variability and change and reduce greenhouse gas emission, where feasible, in farming systems globally and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Innovative biomass cooking approaches for sub-Saharan Africa por Njenga, M., Gitau, K. J., Iiyama, Miyuki, Jamnadass, Ramni H., Mahmoud, Y., Karanja, N.

“…Innovations exist that have the potential to provide affordable and cleaner tree-based cooking fuel. Pruning trees on the farm as a fuel source brings firewood closer to women, lightens their workload, saves time and reduces income spent on cooking fuel. …”
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Status, Management, and Governance of the Communal Grasslands of Ethiopia's Highlands: A Disappearing Asset for Mixed Crop-Livestock Livelihood Systems por Eba, Bedasa, Flintan, Fiona E., Getachew, Tesfa, Sircely, Jason A.

“…However, this important resource is rapidly disappearing with encroachment of farming and tree-planting with species such as Eucalyptus spp. that kill grasses. …”
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Forestry, deforestation and biodiversity in Ghana por Benhin, J.K., Barbier, Bruno

“…Increasing loss of forest and tree species has implications for the variety of fauna in the forest, which in turn influences the mechanisms and rates of regeneration, reproduction and speciation in tropical forests.…”
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Dynamics of rubber expansion in Lao PDR: policy making under uncertainty por Bouahom, B., Alberny, E., Douangsavanh, L., Castella, J.C.

“…The overnment of Laos promotes foreign investment in developing tree plantation to increase income sources for rural households and for government as export earnings. …”
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Activity report: Monitoring Outcome of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Kaffrine ClimateSmart Village, Senegal por Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Fall, Mamadou, Adeyemi, Chabi

“…The CSV monitoring targeted two adult persons of opposite sex involved in on-farm activities from a sample of 191 household located in ten villages within the Kaffrine CSV site. …”
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Amelioration of soil physical properties by mucuna after mechanized land clearing of a tropical rain forest por Hulugalle, N., Lal, R., Ter Kuile, C.H.H.

“…The methods used were manual clearing and clearing with a shearblade, a tree-pusher, and a treepusher/root rake. The soil physical properties measured were total porosity, penetrometer resistance, infiltration, and soil water retention. …”
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Development of the forest sector in Indonesia por Sunderlin, William D.

“…The main environmental concerns related to the forest sector are: (1) deforestation and forest degradation resulting from the farming practices of agricultural smallholders; (2) deforestation and forest degradation from land use practices of large enterprises such as timber concessions, tree crop and industrial timber plantations, and pulp and paper mills; and (3) the use of fire for clearing land. …”
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Laboratory validation of a resource quality-based conceptual framework for organic matter management por Vanlauwe, Bernard, Gachengo, CN, Shepherd, Keith D., Barrios, E., Cadisch, Georg, Palm, Cheryl A.

“…Organic resources (ORs) are essential inputs in tropical farming systems and their decomposition dynamics are related to their quality. …”
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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a phosphorus deficient soil amended with organic residues and fertilizers in western Kenya por Nziguheba, Generose, Merckx, Roel, Palm, Cheryl A.

“…The contribution of organic resources to the restoration of soil fertility in smallholder farming systems in East Africa is being tested as an alternative to costly fertilizers. …”
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Comportamiento fisiológico del café asociado con Eucalyptus deglupta, Terminalia ivorensis y sin sombra por Siles Gutiérrez, P.D.

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Chapter 16. Increasing adaptation to climate stress by applying conservation agriculture in Southern Africa por Thierfelder, Christian L., Steward, Peter R.

“…This can be addressed by combinations of improved stress-tolerant seed, targeted fertilization, inclusion of tree-based components or green manure cover crops in the farming system, scale-appropriate mechanization and improved weed control strategies.…”
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Appeals to environmental protection and farmer adoption of sustainable natural resource management – a case study of Kaya, Burkina Faso por Carroll II, D. A., Wilson, K. R., Rogers, B. L., Coates, J., Griffin, T. S.

“…Practices that create more permanent structures on the land, such as tree-planting and stone bunds, were more difficult for farmers to trial and adopt, especially those farming on rented or borrowed land. …”
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