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General Pueyrredon y la papa: un sector en pleno crecimiento y desafíos by Borracci, Sebastian Emilio

“…La papa ha sido y es uno de los principales alimentos del mundo. Es el cuarto cultivo alimenticio más importante a nivel mundial, siendo superado por tres cereales: trigo, arroz y maíz. …”
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Desafíos y oportunidades de negocio para las papas chips nativas en el departamento de Nariño by Ramos Zambrano, Housseman Steven, Luna Mancilla, Lizeth Tatiana, Trejo Escobar, Diego, Latorre Vásquez, Laura, Valencia Flórez, Luis Fernando, Martínez Pachón, Eliana, Mejía España, Diego Fernando

“…La papa (Solanum tuberosum L.) es uno de los cuatro principales cultivos en el mundo, junto con el maíz, el trigo y el arroz (Cabezas, 2015); es un cultivo primario básico que se produce en 149 países y en todos los continentes del mundo (excepto en la Antártida) (Tinjacá & Rodríguez, 2015). …”
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Genotyping by sequencing provides new insights into the diversity of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) and reveals variation in genome-wide LD patterns between collections by Muktar, Meki S., Teshome, A., Hanson, Jean, Negawo, Alemayehu T., Habte, Ermias, Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka, Ki-Won Lee, Jones, Christopher S.

“…Napier grass is an important tropical forage-grass and of growing potential as an energy crop. One-hundred-five Napier grass accessions, encompassing two independent collections, were subjected to genotyping by sequencing which generated a set of high-density genome-wide markers together with short sequence reads. …”
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Exploring the profitability of improved storage technologies and their potential impacts on food security and income of smallholder farm households in Tanzania by Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Abass, A., Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, Mbwambo, H., Bekunda, Mateete A.

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Building resilience through climate risk insurance: Insights from agricultural research for development by Kramer, Berber, Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James, Rose, Alison, Braun, Mélody

“…These outputs are made available to the insurance industry as public goods in order to overcome challenges around, among others, data availability, targeting and design of insurance, distribution channels and use of technology, bundling with risk-reducing technologies and practices, enabling environments and smart subsidies, and capturing the full value chain.…”
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Genotyping-by-sequencing reveals population structure and genetic diversity of a Buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) by Negawo, Alemayehu T., Assefa, Yilikal, Hanson, Jean, Abdena, Asebe, Muktar, Meki S., Habte, Ermias, Sartie, Alieu, Jones, Christopher S.

“…Buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is an important forage grass widely grown across the world with many good characteristics including high biomass yield, drought tolerance, and adaptability to a wide range of soil conditions and agro-ecologies. Two hundred and five buffelgrass accessions from diverse origins, conserved as part of the in-trust collection in the ILRI genebank, were analyzed by genotyping-by-sequencing using the DArTseq platform. …”
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Rolling circle amplification to screen yam germplasm for badnavirus infections and to amplify and characterise novel badnavirus genomes by Bömer, M., Turaki, A., Rathnayake, A., Silva, G., Kumar, P. Lava, Seal, S.

“…Since the first discovery of badnaviruses (family Caulimoviridae, genus Badnavirus) in yam (Dioscorea spp.) germplasm in the 1970s (Harrison and Roberts, 1973), several hundred partial badnavirus reverse transcriptase (RT)-ribonuclease H (RNaseH) sequences have been characterised (Kenyon et al., 2008; Bousalem et al., 2009), but only a few complete Dioscorea bacilliform virus (DBV) genome sequences have been reported (Phillips et al., 1999; Seal and Muller, 2007; Bömer et al., 2016 and 2017; Sukal et al., 2017; Umber et al., 2017). …”
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Sustainable but hungry? Food security outcomes of certification for cocoa and oil palm smallholders in Ghana by Dompreh, E.B., Asare, R., Gasparatos, A.

“…Cocoa and oil palm are the major commodity crops produced in Ghana and livelihood options for hundreds of thousands of rural households. However, their production has negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. …”
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Data-driven decentralized breeding increases prediction accuracy in a challenging crop production environment by Sousa, Kauê de, Etten, Jacob van, Poland, Jesse A., Fadda, Carlo, Jannink, Jean-Luc, Gebrehawaryat Kidane, Yosef, Lakew, Basazen Fantahun, Mengistu, Dejene Kassahun, Pè, Mario Enrico, Solberg, Svein Øivind, Dell’Acqua, Matteo

“…Crop breeding must embrace the broad diversity of smallholder agricultural systems to ensure food security to the hundreds of millions of people living in challenging production environments. …”
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FTA Highlight No.11 – REDD+: Combating Climate Change with Forest Science by Martius, C., Duchelle, Amy E.

“…With dozens of national and subnational REDD+ initiatives and several hundred local projects underway, GCS REDD+ has looked at the range of approaches, analyzed conditions — from policy to land rights to forest monitoring capacity — and produced a bedrock of evidence and analysis across 22 countries. …”
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Proceedings Report of the CRAFT and AICCRA-ESA Organized Workshop: Weather Information Synthesis, Dissemination and Application-Uganda Framework Meeting by Nandudu, Nancy, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Oroma, George W.

“…The outcome of this workshop was to facilitate: (i) reflection on consequences of the Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) 2020 outlook forecast/report on stakeholders in the CRAFT value chains (i.e., Potato, Soybean, and sesame), (ii) reformulation or contextualization of forecast and its narratives on a case-by-case basis for value chain actors along the four CRAFT commodity value chains, (iii) reflection on the most appropriate platform(s) through which seasonal forecast information can be disseminated to targeted actors, (iv) reflection on the possibility of disseminating weather forecast information as a service bundled together with agro-insurance services and (v) reaching an agreement on a framework and protocol through which subsequent weather forecast information from UNMA can be sustainably processed to more usable levels…”
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Unlocking the potential of agribusiness in Africa through youth participation: an impact evaluation of N-Power Agro Empowerment Program in Nigeria by Ogunmodede, A.M., Ogunsanwo, M.O., Manyong, Victor

“…This study, therefore, evaluated the impact of the N-power Agro Program on youth employment and income generation through agribusiness in Nigeria. Six hundred and forty-five respondents were randomly selected from the database of N-Power. …”
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Assessing intraspecific variability and diversity in African yam bean landraces using agronomic traits by Olomitutu, O.E., Abe, A., Oyatomi, Olaniyi, Paliwal, R., Abberton, Michael T.

“…Optimal utilization of the available large collection of landraces of African yam bean (AYB) presently conserved at the Genetic Resource Center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan (GRC-IITA), requires an assessment of the magnitude and nature of genetic diversity within the germplasm. One hundred and ninety-six AYB accessions were evaluated during the 2018 and 2019 cropping seasons in three agro-ecologies of Nigeria, using a 14 × 14 triple lattice design. …”
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Assessing the spatial variability of soil properties to delineate nutrient management zones in smallholder maize-based system of Nigeria by Peter-Jerome, H., Adewopo, Julius, Kamara, A., Aliyu, K.T., Dawaki, M.U.

“…This study was conducted to delineate soil nutrient management zones (MZs), based on spatial variability of soils in the smallholder maize-based farming system within the NGS. Two hundred and eighty-nine soil samples were analyzed for some physical and chemical properties. …”
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Blending climate action and rural development in Africa's Sahel by Woomer, P.L., Roobroeck, D., Alia, D.Y.

“…This progress is achieved by identifying climate-smart agricultural production technologies and bundling them into solutions for inclusion within larger projects and programs. …”
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Genome-Wide classification and phylogenetic analyses of the GDSL-Type Esterase/Lipase (GELP) family in flowering plants by Cenci, Alberto, Concepción-Hernández, Mairenys, Guignon, Valentin, Angenon, Geert, Rouard, Mathieu

“…Genes that encode GELP belong to a complex and large gene family, ranging from tens to more than hundreds of members per plant species. To facilitate functional transfer between them, we conducted a genome-wide classification of GELP in 46 plant species. …”
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Polycentric irrigation water governance: irrigation water users associations service delivery in Ketar Subbasin, Ethiopia by Sida, Y. G., Simane, B., Assefa, E., Haileslassie, Amare

“…The irrigation water user associations in the subbasin were measured on their legal registration and financial status, while the four schemes were examined on their bylaw implementation, decision transparency, water allocation, and infrastructure management. Three hundred eleven (311) randomly selected irrigators were surveyed. …”
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Market intelligence for informing crop-breeding decisions by CGIAR and NARES by Donovan, Jason A., Coaldrake, Peter, Rutsaert, Pieter, Banziger, Marianne, Mbugua-Gitonga, A., Naziri, D., Newby, J., Ndegwa, Michael K., Demont, Matty

“…Over the past decades, varieties derived from CGIAR germplasm have helped provide food for hundreds of millions living in harsh and vulnerable environments. …”
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Genome-wide association studies of Striga resistance in extra-early maturing quality protein maize inbred lines by Okunlola, G., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Ariyo, O., Agre, A.P., Offornedo, Q.N., Ayo-Vaughan, M.A.

“…We conducted a genome-wide association study to identify genomic regions associated with grain yield and other agronomic traits under artificial Striga field infestation. One hundred and forty-one extra-early quality protein maize inbred lines were phenotyped for key agronomic traits. …”
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Effects of plant densities on the performance of common bean varieties in multiple environments of northwestern Tanzania by Amara, Raya, Kimisha, Joseph, Mbiu, Julius, Assefa, Teshale, Waswa, Boaz Shaban

“…Variables evaluated were plant height, angular leaf spot and common bacterial blight disease scores in leaves, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, hundred seed weight and grain yield. The variables were subjected to ANOVA and means of statistically significant variables to plant density, variety, and environment were analyzed by Tukey HSD test and “which-won-where” view of the GGE biplot. …”
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