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Malaria vectors in a traditional dry zone village in Sri Lanka
Publicado 1999“…Malaria transmission by anopheline mosquitoes was studied in a traditional tank-irrigation-based rice-producing village in the malaria-endemic low country dry zone of northcentral Sri Lanka during the period August 1994-February 1997. …”
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Drivers of land use change and household determinants of sustainability in smallholder farming systems of Eastern Uganda
Publicado 2010“…Cropping diversified over time; cassava overtook cotton and millet in importance, and rice emerged as an alternative cash crop. Impacts of political instability, such as the collapse of cotton marketing and land management institutions, of communal labour arrangements and aggravation of cattle rustling were linked to the changes. …”
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Breeding for enhanced ß-Carotene content in cassava: constraints and accomplishments
Publicado 2011“…A current thrust of research (HarvestPlus initiative) is to determine the genetic potential for increasing the concentrations of bioavailable Fe, Zn, and provitamin A carotenoids in the edible portions of several staple food crops including cassava, rice, wheat, maize, and beans. Currently, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, are working in collaboration to develop an elite cassava gene pool and to develop varieties that will be released to farmers soon in hope of addressing part of micronutrient malnutrition.…”
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Participatory research in Ikulwe-Iganga District, Uganda
Publicado 1999“…Several crop varieties have been evaluated for either tolerance or resistance and farmers have adopted Nanse 2 and SS4 cassava varieties; K131, K132, MCM 2001, MCM 3030, OBA 1, UBR (92) 32 bean varieties; some sweet potato varieties; and two upland rice varieties. Farmers are paring corms to control banana weevils, and researchers have promised a cheaper alternative to the hot water treatment with which farmers had experimented. …”
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Estimating global warming potential for agricultural landscapes with minimal field data and cost
Publicado 2015“…In a 9,736-hectare case study area dominated by rice and wheat in the Karnal district of Haryana state, India, the authors used a low-cost landscape agricultural GHG accounting method with limited fieldwork, remote sensing, and biogeochemical modeling. …”
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Assessing livestock water productivity in mixed farming systems of Gumara watershed, Ethiopia
Publicado 2018“…Study sites were situated in three different rainfed mixed crop/livestock farming systems; barley/potato based system (BPS), tef/finger-millet based system (TMS), and rice/noug based system (RNS). LWP was found to be significantly lower (p < 0.01) in RNS (0.057 USD m−3 water) than in TMS (0.066 USD m−3 water) or in BPS (0.066 USD m−3 water). …”
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Breeding grain mold resistant sorghum cultivars
Publicado 2000“…Moench) is the fifth important cereal crop after wheat (Triticum aestivumL.), maize (Zea maysL.), rice (Oryza sativaL.), and barley (Hordeum vulgareL.) in the world. …”
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The social and economic effects of remigration to rural areas in Vietnam
Publicado 2011“…However, two core ones were due to the fact that most of the Khmer short term returnees could not adapt to the living and working conditions in the destinations, and the seasonal returnees mostly returned to the home village because of rice crop season in the countryside. Besides that, the returnees also re-migrate to the countryside due to health problem, and other reasons. …”
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Dryland Cereals and Legumes Agri-Food Systems: Full Proposal 2017-2022
Publicado 2016“…Beyond the major global commodities of rice, wheat and maize, there are cereal and grain legume crops: sorghum, pearl millet, barley, chickpea, common bean, cowpea, groundnut and pigeonpea: that are important in the food systems of developing countries. …”
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Advancing agricultural climate action in agriculture and food systems
Publicado 2020“…Wyn Ellis (Sustainable Rice Platform).…”
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Environmental risks from pesticide use: the case of commercial banana farming in northern Lao PDR
Publicado 2021“…Results of the analysis revealed that samples from banana farms had higher concentrations of residues from currently used (CU) pesticides compared with samples from adjacent farms producing maize, rubber, upland rice and gourd. Residues from highly persistent organochlorine (OC) pesticides, such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, heptachlor, dieldrin and lindane, which are no longer used in Laos, were also detected. …”
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Comparison of the carbon footprint of the dietary patterns of the inhabitants of the city of Cali and the "EAT-Lancet diet
Publicado 2021“…The carbon footprint of food in kg CO2eq/kg under de current diet, was estimated to be 1.27 for rice, 0.64 for corn, 0.40 for potato, 0.27 for plantain, 0.11 for citrus, 0.07 for tomato, 0.26 for onion, 0.99 for vetch, 0.69 for bean, 2.03 for milk, 8.13 for cheese, 5.00 for eggs, 2.32 for chicken, 17.63 for beef, 1.04 for palm oil, 0.47 for margarine, 3.99 for panela (unrefined sugar), and 4.60 for sugar cane. …”
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Carbon sequestration potential, challenges, and strategies towards climate action in smallholder agricultural systems of South Asia
Publicado 2022“…Improved management practices across crops and environment may reduce methane em0ission by 12% resulting in an 8% reduction in global warming potential (GWP), while non-submerged condition led to a 51% GWP reduction in rice. Conservation agriculture and precision fertilization also reduced GWP by 11 and 14%, respectively. …”
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Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture
Publicado 2021“…Paddy fields used for rice production, livestock production systems (enteric emission from ruminants), landfills, and the production and use of fossil fuels are the main anthropogenic sources of CH 4 . …”
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Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries
Publicado 2023“…Largest T2D burdens were attributable to insufficient whole-grain intake (26.1% (25.0–27.1%)), excess refined rice and wheat intake (24.6% (22.3–27.2%)) and excess processed meat intake (20.3% (18.3–23.5%)). …”
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Women and youth in Myanmar agriculture
Publicado 2021“…No crops are grown exclusively by men or women, but rice is more often and vegetables are less often cultivated by households where men are the sole agricultural decision makers. …”
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Monitoring biofortification program performance and potential for impact: Indicators, methods, and learnings from the commercialization of biofortified crops program in six countri...
Publicado 2024“…Country-level implementation teams contextualized and operationalized them to monitor 9 country-crop programs (i.e., high iron beans in Kenya and Tanzania, iron pearl millet in India, vitamin A maize in Nigeria and Tanzania, vitamin A cassava in Nigeria, zinc wheat in Pakistan and India, and zinc rice in Bangladesh) from 2020 to 2022. Results Twenty indicators were defined across domains of seed supply, production, availability, awareness, capacity development, advocacy, and consumption of biofortified foods. …”
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