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Women’s resilience and participation in climate governance in the agri-food sector: A strategic review of public policies por Mohammed, Kamaldeen, Najjar, Dina, Bryan, Elizabeth

“…In particular, SDG 5.5 which “seeks to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities, defined as meaningful involvement and exertion of influence, for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.” …”
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Climate-smart aquaculture practices for smallholder fish farmers in Zambia: Integrated fish-livestock training workshop report por Lundeba, Mary, Mudege, Netsayi, Mwema, Catherine, Siamudaala, Victor

“…The TOT also focused on better management practices (BMPs) for integrating livestock and fish, but also on gender equity and social inclusion (GESI), as devising gender-inclusive ways helps develop resilient farming and food systems against climate risks. …”
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Open-source analytical pipeline for robust data analysis, visualizations and sharing in crop breeding por Hussain, Waseem, Anumalla, Mahender, Catolos, Margaret, Khanna, Apurva, Sta. Cruz, Ma Teresa, Ramos, Joie M., Bhosale, Sankalp

“…Background: Developing a systematic phenotypic data analysis pipeline, creating enhanced visualizations, and interpreting the results is crucial to extract meaningful insights from data in making better breeding decisions. Here, we provide an overview of how the Rainfed Rice Breeding (RRB) program at IRRI has leveraged R computational power with open-source resource tools like R Markdown, plotly, LaTeX, and HTML to develop an open-source and end-to-end data analysis workfow and pipeline, and re-designed it to a reproducible document for better interpretations, visualizations and easy sharing with collaborators. …”
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Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS): untapped potential for enhancing food and nutrition securities in sub-Saharan Africa por Abdullahi, W.M., Mu'az, S.A., Togola, A., Mohammed, G.S., Umar, M.L., Ongom, P.O., Echekwu, C., Boukar, O.

“…Moreover, scientific innovations like MAS offer great potential to drive this envisioned change; decades have passed since this technology was first used in the world, but Africa as a continent with more genetic diversity of crops remains underrepresented. …”
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2022 AICCRA Partnership Survey Results Report por Schuetz, Tonya, Ramírez, Margarita M., Marchi, Julian, Bonilla-Findji, Osana, Poulos, Allison, Cali, Davide, Ageyo, Collins, Giombini, Valentina

“…These indicators capture progress on (1 - IPI 1.3) the satisfaction with the usefulness, accessibility and relevance, particularly for gender and youth responsiveness, (2 - IPI 2.4) effectiveness of partnerships and (3 - IPI 3.3) the use or adaptation of AICCRA-funded climate-relevant knowledge products, decision-making tools and services. The survey was open from 8 December 2022 to 11 January 2023 Cluster leads provided the products/services to survey for their cluster, and they sent the survey to their partners totaling 451 recipients. …”
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Reliability of pheromone trap catches and maize plant damage as criteria for timing fall armyworm control interventions in humid forest agroecology of central Africa por Abang, A.F., Nanga, S.N., Ndanda, R.M.O., Doumtsop Fotio, A.R.P., Gonder, M.K., Kouebou, C., Suh, C., Fotso Kuate, A., Fiaboe, K., Hanna, R.

“…We investigated the efficacy of moth capture frequencies and FAW incidence levels as decision tools for FAW management. Experiments were conducted over two maize cropping seasons during which FAW incidence, severity, and larvae count were recorded during destructive sampling after the application of a homologated insecticide. …”
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Mapping out market drivers of improved variety seed use: the case of sorghum in Tanzania por Kalema, Elizabeth Phineas, Akpo, Essegbemon, Muricho, Geoffrey, Ringo, Justin, Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…The results showed that taste, preferences and price difference between grain and seed were significant and positive drivers that influenced the decision of farmers to use improved varieties at 47% and 0.007%, respectively. …”
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Multiscale water accounting under climate change in a transboundary West African basin [Abstract only] por Dembélé, Moctar, Salvadore, E., Zwart, Sander J., Ceperley, N., Mariethoz, G., Schaefli, B.

“…Water accounting frameworks assess water availability and consumption of various users and are key tools to inform decision and policy making for integrated water resources management. …”
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Adoption of dairy technologies in smallholder dairy farms in Ethiopia por Korir, L., Manning, L., Moore, H.L., Lindahl, Johanna F., Gemechu, G., Mihret, A., Berg, S., Wood, J.L.N., Nyokabi, N.S.

“…The findings show that farm location and herd size impact adoption decisions. Increasing herd size is associated with increased uptake of multiple technologies. …”
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Socio-economic and food system drivers of nutrition and health transitions in The Gambia from 1990 to 2017 por Ali, Zakari, Scheelbeek, Pauline F.D., Dalzell, Sarah, Hadida, Genevieve, Segnon, Alcade C., M'boob, Sulayman, Prentice, Andrew M., Green, Rosemary

“…However, the evidence base that would enable informed decision-making in the Gambian food system has been scant, despite several sources of routinely-collected data being available. …”
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Assessment of the relations between crop yield variability and the onset and intensity of the West African Monsoon por Joseph, Jacob Emanuel, Akinseye, Folorunso M., Worou, Nadine, Faye, Aliou, Konte, Oumar, Whitbread, Anthony M., Rötter, Reimund P.

“…We recommend improved access to climate information services to help smallholder farmers get timely information that helps them in their sowing decisions and encourage agronomic interventions that improve the SOC level, soil pore volume to retain more water and other soil properties directly(e.g., tillage) and indirectly(suited cropping systems) that contribute to enhancing crop productivity.…”
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Diversité, biomasse et stock de carbone dans les systèmes d’utilisation des terres en haute Casamance, Sénégal por Ly, Mamadou Ousseynou, Faye, Aliou

“…En plus de ces biens et services rendus, il est généralement admis que ces écosystèmes forestiers et agroforestières sont d’important puits de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) grâce à la photosynthèse et stockent le carbone sous forme de biomasse aérienne et racinaire (Benites et al., 1999; David et Crane, 2002). La gestion du carbone au-dessus et en dessous du sol est une option importante pour réduire la concentration de CO2 dans l'atmosphère (Post et Kwon, 2000). …”
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Local and wide-scale livestock movement networks inform disease control strategies in East Africa por Ekwem, D., Enright, J., Hopcraft, J.G.C., Buza, J., Shirima, G., Shand, M., Mwajombe, J.K., Bett, Bernard K., Reeve, R., Lembo, T.

“…In contrast, livestock from pastoral communities were 1.6 times more connected at communal locations during the wet season when they also tended to move farther (by 3 km compared to the dry season). …”
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Unrelenting catastrophic droughts and successive failed rainy seasons in the Greater Horn of Africa por Amha, Yosef, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Amdihun, Ahmed, Otieno, Viola, Afiesimama, Ernest, Murombedzi, James, Radeny, Maren A.O., Solomon, Dawit

“… ▪ National governments, regional climate centers, and international development partners should support the enhancement and sustainability of infrastructure, as well as human and technical expertise in the region to take advantage of the advances in science and technology (i.e., use of digital decision support tools, ICTs, and broadcast systems) to ensure the availability and accuracy of CIS and EWS for enhanced service delivery for all, preparedness and early action at the national and sub-national levels.…”
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Validation of high-resolution satellite precipitation products over West Africa for rainfall monitoring and early warning por Houngnibo, Mandela C., Minoungou, Bernard, Traoré, Seydou, Maidment, Ross I., Alhassane, Agali, Ali, Abdou

“…The PROMETHEE II multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method was employed to rank SRPs by considering criteria encompassing both their intrinsic characteristics and performance metrics. …”
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Modeling the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon and carbon stocks in the Casanare flooded savannas of the Colombian Llanos por Martin López, Javier Mauricio, Verchot, Louis V., Martius, Christopher, Silva, Mayesse Aparecida da

“…At regional level, the impact of a large-scale land use conversions of the flooded Llanos del Orinoco ecosystem area (15 Mha) could transform this area in a future source of important global emissions if correct decisions are not taken regarding the land management of the region.…”
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Characterizing patterns of seasonal drought stress for use in common bean breeding in East Africa under present and future climates por Jha, Prakash K., Beebe, Steve, Álvarez Toro, Patricia, Mukankusi, Clare, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…To do this, breeders need information about seasonal drought stress patterns including their onset, intensity, and duration in the target area of the breeding program, so that they can mimic this pattern during field trials. Using the Decision Support for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) v4.7 model together with historical and future (Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 6, CMIP6) climate data, this study categorized Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda into different target population of environments (TPEs) based on historical and future seasonal drought stress patterns. …”
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Effect of uptake of improved seed potato and donor-funded training on smallholder farmers’ market participation por Kangogo, E., Otieno, David Jakinda, Okello, J.J., Mwenye, O., Kapalasa, E.

“…Further, farmers closer to urban centers, those with off-farm income, those who had participated in potato training, use of improved potato seed and quantity of output positively influenced the decision to sell in high-value markets such as supermarkets. …”
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Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification por Amare, Mulubrhan, Balana, Bedru, Onilogbo, Omobolanle

“…In response to the risks posed by climate change, farmers adopt changes in crop mixes (for example, reducing the share of land allocated to cereals) and input use decisions (for example, reducing fertilizer use and purchased seeds) as an adaptation strategy. …”
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Farm diversification strategies, dietary diversity and farm size: Results from a cross-country sample in South and Southeast Asia por Tacconi, Francesco, Waha, Katharina, Ojeda, Jonathan Jesus, Leith, Peat, Mohammed, Caroline, Venables, William N., Rana, Jai C., Bhardwaj, Rakesh, Yadav, Rashmi, Ahlawat, Sudhir Pal, Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van

“…These findings highlight that characteristics such as farm size can represent substantial determinants in production and consumption decisions, suggesting the importance of understanding and considering the type of farm and the situational context of analysis when targeting interventions for improving smallholder farm livelihoods.…”
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