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Macroeconomic adjustment and agricultural performance in Southern Africa: a quantitative overview by Bautista, Romeo M.

“…This paper describes, in quantitative terms, the macroeconomic adjustments effectively implemented and accompanying agricultural and overall economic performance, particularly since 1980, in four low-income countries in Southern Africa, namely, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Because the economic effects of macroeconomic adjustment have been confounded by the 1992 drought that caused an unprecedented disruption of agricultural production and trade in the region, a separate discussion of the post-1991 policy developments and economic performance in the four study countries is also given. …”
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Granskning av ett svenskt leksaksbolags miljöpåverkan by Thygesson, Jennie

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Review of Methodologies for Land Degradation Neutrality Baselines: Sub-National case studies from Costa Rica and Namibia by Aynekulu, Ermias, Lohbeck, Madelon, Nijbroek, Ravic P., Ordoñez, Jenny C., Turner, Katrine Grace, Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…For this purpose two focus regions were chosen within two of the countries – namely Namibia and Costa Rica – that participated in the first LDN pilot phase. …”
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Selecciones de maíz en la Estación Experimental Tropical de Ecuador by Soria V., Jorge

“…During the process, part of the seed from the progenies was separated and this led to the establishment of five varieties which were named as EET: 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106 A local variety was used as check on yield test comparisons and was known as EET 101; all selections proved to be more productive than the check A brief description of the hereditary make-up of the basic material and the selection process that followed, is given in this article.…”
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A time of plenty, a world of need: the role of food aid in 2020 by Webb, Patrick

“…The supply will depend partly on how effectively food aid is targeted and managed, and partly on the priority given by donors to the problems that are best addressed through food aid: namely, acute and chronic food insecurity. …”
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Introduced Opuntia spp. in Madagascar : problems and opportunities by Larsson, Per

“…In total 27 different Opuntia variants with local names was recorded and six of them was present in all study sites. …”

Tasmansk djävul: en art i kris : orsaker och eventuella lösningar by Johansson, Mattias

Effekter av flushing och dess potentiella användning för hund by Gumpert Herlofson, Erica

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Descriptors for wild and cultivated rice (Oryza spp.) by Bioversity International, International Rice Research Institute, Africa Rice Center

“…This revision has been developed in collaboration with Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, Renato Reaño, Socorro Almazan, Elizabeth Naredo, Maria Celeste Banaticla, Edwin Javier and Melissa Fitzgerald of IRRI, and subsequently sent to a number of experts for their comments. A full list of the names and addresses of those involved is given in 'Contributors'. …”
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Descriptores para arroz silvestre e cultivado (Oryza spp.) by Bioversity International, International Rice Research Institute, Africa Rice Center

“…This revision has been developed in collaboration with Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, Renato Reaño, Socorro Almazan, Elizabeth Naredo, Maria Celeste Banaticla, Edwin Javier and Melissa Fitzgerald of IRRI, and subsequently sent to a number of experts for their comments. A full list of the names and addresses of those involved is given in 'Contributors'. …”
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Manual de referencia para la promocion de asociaciones de promotores y procesadores de yuca by Romanoff, S.A.

“…Basic information on how to train promoters is given as well as a series of procedures needed to successfully establish and develop new associations of cassava processors and promoters. …”
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Tres nuevas variedades de papas resistentes al tizón tardío by Casseres, E., Peterson, L. C, Reddick, D.

“…The origin of each variety and its characteristics are given. The variety Harford, named in 1947, is also presented, for special reasons. …”
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SCUAF Version 4: a model to estimate soil changes under agriculture, agroforestry and forestry by Young, A., Menz, K., Muraya, P., Smith, C.

“…Soil Changes Under AgroForestry (SCUAF) is an easy-to-use computer model which predicts the effects of specific land use systems under given environmental conditions. It includes the distinctive features of agroforestry, namely land use systems which include both trees and crops. …”
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Skogens roll i klimatfrågan : en medieanalys av Dagens Nyheter 2010–2019 by Halldén, Anna

Mental ohälsa hos lantbrukare – vem, när & hur? by Wahlström, Amanda

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Breeding cassava for resistance to bacterial blight by Hahn, S.K.

“…The cassava breeding work at IITA since 1972 is then discussed covering tests on a total of 583 cassava families from CIAT, East Africa and IITA for sources of high resistance to CBB, further tests on 748 IITA clones for CBB resistance in a given ecological setting of high rainfall, sandy and acid soil from which the cultivar 58308 emerged highly resistant. …”
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Does the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices translate to increased farm yields? A case of maize yield from Western Kenya by Magambo Kanyenji, George, Oluoch-Kosura, Willis, Moraa Onyango, Cecilia, Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley

“…One of the ways to achieve this is by adopting low-cost solutions such as soil carbon enhancing practices (SCEPs). Given the complexity of adoption decisions, technologies are either adopted as substitutes or complements. …”
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Manejo y control de las malezas en el cultivo del frijol by Fuentes de Piedrahíta, Cilia L.

“…Weeds are also listed with the names of the pests or diseases of which they can be alternate hosts. …”
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A Tentative Theory of Change to Evaluate Jurisdictional Approaches to Reduced Deforestation by Chervier, C., Piketty, M-G., Reed, J.

“…More specifically, we suggest that current evaluation practices of JA would be strengthened if they were based on a theory of change clarifying the causal linkages between the interventions associated with a given JA and their effects. By integrating select empirical knowledge on JA with a selection of middle-range theories from the literature on collective environmental governance, we design a generic theory of change for JA, which is articulated around two intermediary outcomes, namely the emergence of collaboration and social learning. …”
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Estimating the Reach of Biofortified Crops to Farm Households: The HarvestPlus Model vs. National Sampling and Genotyping in Uganda by Lybbert, Travis J., Stevenson, James R., Labarta, Ricardo

“…This technical note compares two different methods of estimating the reach of biofortified crops – namely, orange-fleshed sweet potato (OSP) and high-iron beans (HIB) – in rural Uganda. …”
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