Search Results - given name

What's in a weed's name? by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Loumeto, of the Botany and Ecology Laboratory at the Science Faculty in Brazzaville, Congo, writes about the number of names given to Chromolaena odorata (Spore 72, p. 4). …”
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Banana cultivar names and synonyms in Southeast Asia by Valmayor, R.V., Jamaluddin, S.H., Silayoi, B., Kusumo, S., Danh, L.D., Pascua, O.C., Espino, R.R.C., International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain

“…In many cases, the same varieties have been given different names in different areas and the likewise the same name has been given to different varieties. …”
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Avances de investigacion - seccion yuca - name by López Montes, Antonio José

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Caracteristicas de la produccion de name espino (Dioscorea rotundata Poir) y yuca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) en la Costa Atlantica de Colombia by Moreno, R.A., Muñoz, F.

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Varietal Identification in Household Surveys: Results from an Experiment Using DNA Fingerprinting of Sweet Potato Leaves in Southern Ethiopia by Kosmowski, Frederic, Aragaw, A., Kilian, Andrzej, Ambel, A.A., Ilukor, J., Yigezu, B., Stevenson, James R.

“…The reference being the DNA fingerprinting, about 30 percent of improved varieties were identified as local or non-improved, and 20 percent of farmers identified a variety as local when it was in fact improved. The variety names given by farmers delivered inconsistent and fuzzy varietal identities. …”
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ENVIRON by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…A new, computerized data base of the Tropical Development and Research Institute (TDRI) has been given the cryptic name ENVIRON. It can be used as a clearinghouse for information on the effects of pesticides on tropical environments: toxicity...…”
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A world dictionary of livestock breeds types and varieties by Mason, I.L.

“…It indicates which are synonymous, and recommends the form for English use. The information, given in an easily followed abbreviated form, includes place of origin or present distribution and economic use of the various breeds, types and varieties, their inter-relationships, a description of the “breed characters† leaste affected by environment, such as colour and horns, and the origin of the name. …”
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Correction to: Comparative analysis of chloroplast genomes of cultivars and wild species of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam) by Xiao, S., Xu, P., Deng, Y., Dai, X., Zhao, L., Heider, B., Zhang, A., Zhou, Z., Cao, Q.

“…Following publication of the original article [1], the author’s reported an error in the authorship list. The name of Bettina Heider was incorrectly given as ‘Bettina Heida’. …”
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Adding gender dimensions to bio-economic modelling: Insights from the literature by Fontana, Marzia

“…These debates emphasise that there are three dimensions to sustainability: social, economic and environmental, which are deeply interconnected and need to be given equal policy attention. The linkages be-tween social, environmental and economic dimensions are complex. …”
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Problems in milpa agriculture by Skutch, Alexander F.

“…For eight of these years I have farmed on a small scale. El General is the name given to the expanded basin at the head of the valley of the Rio Térraba, the major river in the Pacific drainage of southern Costa Rica. …”
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Raíces y tubérculos en República Dominicana by Rodríguez de Paredes, M.

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Notes about Phaseolus pallar Molina (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Phaseoleae): alas but at best a synonym! by Debouck, Daniel G., Nepi, Chiara

“…A name given by Molina in 1782 and again in 1810 to a new Phaseolus species after a food legume crop grown for millennia mostly in the western part of the Quechua realm in South America refers to that crop (in the text of his essay) as well as to a weed (in his short Latin description), thus raising taxonomical uncertainty. …”
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Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture by Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgrowers in Uganda to transfer a sugarcane contract to their wife or to register a previously uncontracted block in her name. A randomized controlled trial indicates that given some encouragement, men are willing to transfer rights to their wives for cane blocks of significant quality and value. …”
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Molecular crop protection using recombinant DNA techniques by Keese, P., Pinto, Y.

“…Biotechnology is the name that has been given to a very wide range of agricultural, industrial, and medical technologies that make use of living organisms or parts of organisms to provide new products and services. …”
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Utilization of supplemented desert grass by Sudan Desert goats by Ali, K.E., Mustafa, E.E.

“…All groups supplemented showed a loss in body weight except those given cotton seed cake. Serum urea in the groups given urea (32±9 gm/dl) or cotton seed cake (27.6±13.0gm/dl) were significantly higher (p…”
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Narratives from a wetland: sustainable management in Lukanga, Zambia by Mapedza, Everisto D., Geheb, Kim, van Koppen, Barbara, Chisaka, J.

“…Policy must take power interests into account to ensure that developments in the name of the poor really do benefit the poor.…”
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The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions by von Braun, Joachim

“…Not surprisingly, renewed global attention is being given to the role of agriculture and food in development policy, as can be seen from the World Bank’s World Development Report, accelerated public action in African agriculture under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank’s recent initiatives for more investment in agriculture, to name just a few examples.…”
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Taxonomic study of Marinomonas strains isolated from the seagrass Posidonia oceanica, with descriptions of Marinomonas balearica sp nov and Marinomonas pollencensis sp nov. by Espinosa, Elena, Marco-Noales, Ester, Gomez, Daniel, Lucas-Elio, Patricia, Ordax, Mónica, Garcias-Bonet, Neus, Duarte, Carlos M., Sanchez-Amat, Antonio

“…Strain IVIA-Po-185(T) is thus considered to represent a second novel species of the genus, for which the name Marinomonas pollencensis sp. nov. is proposed. …”
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Population genomics of yams: evolution and domestication of Dioscorea species by Sugihara, Y., Kudoh, A., Oli, M.T., Takagi, H., Natsume, S., Shimizu, M., Abe, A., Asiedu, R., Asfaw, A., Adebola, P.O., Terauchi, R.

“…Yam is a collective name of tuber crops belonging to the genus Dioscorea. …”
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The impact of oportunidades in Mexico: An integrated CGE-microsimulations modeling approach by Dorosh, Paul A., Debowicz, Dario, Golan, Jennifer

“…CCTs are now present in almost all parts of the developing world, especially in Latin America. As the name indicates, CCT programs transfer money to a targeted group conditional on the recipient's behavior, such as school attendance for children, vaccinations, health checks for infants and pregnant women, and attendance of workshops on hygiene and nutrition.Oportunidades (previously named Progresa) is a CCT program in Mexico that consists of three components: one related to education, one to health, and one to nutrition. …”
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