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Role of biotechnology and transgenics in bananas (Musa spp.) in Africa por Shotkoski, F.A., Tripathi, L., Kiggundu, A., Arinaitwe, G., Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K.

“…The AgriculturalBiotechnology Support Project (ABSPII), a Cornell University-led and USAIDfunded consortium of public and private sector institutions, provides support forscientists, regulators, extension workers, farmers and the general public indeveloping countries to make informed decisions about agricultural biotechnology.When possible, ABSPII creates public-private partnerships to help leverage publicfunds to help absorb development costs and provide broader distribution channels.Since 2005, ABSPII has been working with the National Agricultural ResearchOrganization in Uganda to establish safe and cost effective programs for thedevelopment and commercialization of East African highland bananas (Musa spp.),genetically engineered for black sigatoka and nematode resistance. …”
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Institutional linkages and landscape governance systems: The case of Mt. Marsabit, Kenya por Robinson, Lance W., Kagombe, J.K.

“…Of the various linkages that characterize a governance system, it is those that give community-level actors a meaningful voice at higher levels and in spaces where key decisions are being made that are most critical for enabling effective landscape governance.…”
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Opportunities and pitfalls for researchers to contribute to the design of evidence-based agricultural policies: lessons from Uganda por Pali, Pamela N., Schut, Marc, Kibwika, P., Wairegi, L.W.I., Yami, M., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Manyong, Victor M.

“…Previously, evidence-based decision-making tended to focus on the evidence base rather than evidence and its interactions within the broader policy context. …”
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The impact of climate change on coffee production in Central America por Bunn, Christian, Castro, Fabio, Lundy, Mark M.

“…The prioritization of adaptation tools for coffee is not a trivial task: available means are limited, climate change is not uniform and each coffee stakeholder group has a different decision environment Therefore, climate change adaptation is crop-/site- and actor-specific. …”
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Mixing carrots and sticks to conserve forests in the Brazilian Amazon: a spatial probabilistic modeling approach por Börner, J., Marinho, E., Wunder, Sven

“…We develop a spatially explicit simulation model for deforestation decisions in response to policy incentives and disincentives. …”
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Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia por Langston, James D., Riggs, R.A., Sururi, Y., Sunderland, Terry C.H., Munawir, M.

“…In one village on the frontier of the agricultural market economy, natural forests remain managed by the indigenous and local community but economics further intrude on forest use decisions. Conservation values are declining and the future of the forest is uncertain. …”
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Policy challenges and approaches for the conservation of mangrove forests in Southeast Asia por Friess, D.A., Thompson, B.S., Brown, B., Aldrie Amir, A., Cameron, C., Koldewey, H.J., Sasmito, S.D., Sidik, F.

“…However, conflicting or unclear policy objectives exist at multiple tiers of government, resulting in contradictory management decisions. To address this, we considered four approaches that are being used increasingly or could be deployed in Southeast Asia to ensure sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. …”
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Identification of cover crops for the semiarid savanna zone of West Africa por Carsky, R.J., Ndikawa, R.

“…es in northern Cameroon- Mucuna pwiens genetically reached l00o/o ground cover 60-90 d after planting, where is Canaralid ensi form is rarely reached1 0070g round cover, Two C. enst form is accession so, ne erect and one spreading differed in their ability to covert the soil surface. …”
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Impact of irrigation technology use on crop yield, crop income and household food security in Nigeria: a treatment effect approach por Ogunniyi, A., Omonona, B., Abioye, O., Olagunju, K.

“…The logistic regression estimate revealed that years of education, household size, rainfall information, access to credit, regional dummies are the main drivers of usage decision. The results of the linear regression with endogenous treatment effects showed that irrigation technology use is positively related to crop yield, crop income and household food security. …”
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30-seconds (1 Km2) gridded Future Climate Change Scenarios for Honduras por Navarro Racienes, Carlos Eduardo, Monserrate Rojas, Fredy Alexander

“…The future periods were selected by PNUD and MiAmbiente in Honduras in order to get climatic information for the decision making processes around the climate change in the short, medium and large terms. …”
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Spatial analysis of soil fertility management using integrated household and GIS data from smallholder Kenyan farms por Staal, Steven J., Romney, Dannie L., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Waithaka, M.M., Muriuki, H., Njoroge, L.

“…To avoid such proxies, GIS-derived variables are integrated into the household decision model. Their use also allows the spatial prediction of uptake based on parameter estimates. …”
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Perceived nutrition benefits and socio-demographic factors affecting consumption of forest foods in eastern and southern Cameroon por Fungo, R., Tieguhong, J.C., Muyonga, John H., Odjo, S., Tchingsabe, O., Tchatat, M.

“…A total of 279 females in charge of decision making with respect to food preparation, were randomly selected from 12 villages in southern and eastern Cameroon, and interviewed using researcher administered questionnaires. …”
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Awareness exposure and technology adoption: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in West Africa. por Adekambi, S., Abidin, P.E., Okello, J.J., Carey, E.E.

“…For new and or not well known technologies such as Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) varieties, awareness exposure plays an important role in farmers’ decision to adopt. OFSP varieties have been shown to be highly effective means of combating it at the community level because of its high pro-vitamin A content and its cost effectiveness as compared with fortification and supplementation. …”
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Factors affecting pregnancy rate in artificial insemination with frozen semen during non-breeding season in Murciano-Granadina goats: A field assay por Salvador, I., Viudes-De-Castro, María P., Bernacer, José, Gómez, Ernesto A., Silvestre, Miguel A.

“…The deeper the semen was deposited in the genital tract, the higher was the rate of pregnancy obtained, being greater when the catheter reached the uterus. …”
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Effect of Storage Conditions on Quality of Persimmon Produced Under Organic Conditions por Salvador, Alejandra, Fathi-Najafabadi, Ayoub, Gil, Rebeca, Navarro, Pilar, Besada, Cristina

“…Both the storage temperature and the moment of application of CO2-deastringency treatment were observed to be decisive factors in the final quality of the fruit. …”
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Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal por Heckadon M, S.

“…El Salvador is the smallest, most densely inhabited and deforested Country in America. …”
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Mapping climate change adaptive capacity and vulnerability of smallholder agricultural livelihoods in Central America: ranking and descriptive approaches to support adaptation stra... por Bouroncle, Claudia, Imbach, Pablo A., Rodríguez Sánchez, Beatriz, Medellín M., Claudia, Martinez Valle, Armando, Läderach, Peter

“…Municipalities with a high proportional area under subsistence crops tend to have less resources to promote innovation and action for adaptation. …”
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Secondary Tropical Dry Forests Are Important to Cattle Ranchers in Northwestern Costa Rica por Godinot, Florent, Somarriba, Eduardo, Finegan, Bryan, Delgado-Rodríguez, Diego

“…We found a difference in farm structure and feed types between ranches in the plains and mountain slopes. The decision to use forests for browsing seemed to rely on a trade-off between animal welfare and ease of management. …”
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Environmental management in the construction industry por Söderman, Max

“…The strength of this probabilistic approach is in using available data and opinions to statistically determine whether conclusions can be drawn, providing "hard numbers" for decisions regarding allocation of resources toward protective actions. …”
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Hydropolitics in Hirmand/Helmand International River Basin : application of integrated water resources management por Ettehad, Elnaz

“…These principles persuade the water sector planners and decision makers to be involved in an alternative ongoing management process along with considering the different involved components from natural and human systems interacting with each other. …”