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Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa? by Bardosh, K.L., Scoones, J.C., Grace, Delia, Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Jones, K.E., Balogh, K. de, Waltner-Toews, D., Bett, Bernard K., Welburn, S.C., Mumford, E., Dzingirai, V.

“…We highlight a variety of challenges in research and knowledge production, in the difficult terrain of implementation and outreach, and in the politicized nature of decision-making and priority setting. We then turn our attention to a number of strategies that might help reconfigure current pathways and accepted norms of practice. …”
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Improving Resilience to Climate Impacts in Mali through Improved Availability, Access and Use of Climate Information: Dialogue with Users by Nenkam, Andree M., Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.

“…This greatly hinders local decision-making processes that may benefit from the use of climate data, and affects the ability of vulnerable communities to sustain their resilience capacity in a changing environment characterized by population growth, increasing externalization of risk and expected rise in the frequency of extreme events. …”
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Characterization of maize producing households in the dry savanna of Mali by Fofana, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Coulibaly, N., Sanogo, D., Langyintuo, A.

“…These household heads make decisions about 84% of farming activities; 86% of the households involved in the study belonged to at least one farmers’ organization in order to have easy access to inputs.…”
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Climate information services for increased resilience and productivity in Senegal (CINSERE) by Ouédraogo, Issa, Diouf, Seynabou

“…This allowed to capacitate ANACIM to start developing and communicating tailored and salient CIS in support of farms’, fisheries’ and pastoralists’ communities, including members of both sexes, in their management decision making. The above actions allowed to roll out the planned ground activities for the rainy season 2016. …”
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Diversity amongst farm households and achievements from multi-stakeholder innovation platform approach: lessons from Balaka Malawi by Makate, Clifton, Mango, Nelson

“…Farming households often will devise livelihood strategies that provide the best guarantee for survival and based on their socioeconomic vulnerability. …”
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Annual report 2016: CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…High quality evidence—on topics such as emerging zoonoses, Rift Valley fever, aflatoxin control, and food safety in informal markets—helped inform policy and decision making to prevent and control agriculture-associated diseases in high-risk areas. …”
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Harnessing benefits from improved livestock water productivity in crop-livestock systems of sub-Saharan Africa: synthesis by Amede, Tilahun, Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Peden, Donald G., Rooyen, Andre F. van

“…The insufficient understanding of livestock–water interactions also led to low livestock productivity, impeded sound decision on resources management and undermined achieving positive returns on investments in agricultural water across sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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An improved consensus genetic linkage map of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. ) by Diop, N.N., Ehlers, J.D., Wanamaker, S., Muchero, W., Fatokun, C.A., Guojing, L., Roberts, P.A., Close, T.J., Timothy

“…The map was the result of merging maps from 6 RIL populations genotyped with a 1536-SNP multiplexed assay developed from EST-derived genic SNPs. Here we report improvements to the consensus map for cowpea that result from merging genotype data from a total of 1070 lines composed of eight RIL and two F4 breeding populations. …”
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Methodological considerations on banana (Musa spp.) yield determinations by Hauser, S., Asten, Piet J.A. van

“…Farmers, researchers, extension officers and policy makers need reliable yield data on banana (Musa spp.) to make informed decisions. There are no standard yield determination methods available for Musa research. …”
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Economic impact of aflatoxin contamination in SubSaharan Africa by Coulibaly, O., Hell, K., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Hounkponou, S., Leslie, John F.

“…We also recommend strengthening the capacity for conducting im pact assessments and collecting the data needed to make optimal decisions amongst possible aflatoxin control measures.…”
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Improved seasonal prediction of rainfall over East Africa for application in agriculture: Statistical downscaling of CFSv2 and GFDL-FLOR by Kipkogei, O, Mwanthi, AM, Mwesigwa, JB, Atheru, ZKK, Wanzala, MA, Artan, G

“…Climate forecast downscaling is thus a key undertaking worldwide in the generation of more reliable products for sector specific application including agricultural planning and decision-making.…”
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The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, April - June 2017 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…We have also published a number of project stories on the CCAFS blog, for instance, about a recent training of trainers workshop in Rwanda, where stakeholders learned about how to encourage farmers to take decisions by providing them with weather and climate information. …”
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Does gender matter in effective management of plant disease epidemics? Insights from a survey among rural banana farming households in Uganda by Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Okurut, S., Ajambo, S., Gotor, Elisabetta, Ssali, R.T., Kubiriba, Jerome, Karamura, E.B.

“…Results show that whereas most household assets are jointly owned, men have more individual ownership, control, and decision-making on income from household assets than women. …”
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Flood mapping tools for disaster preparedness and emergency response using satellite data and hydrodynamic models: a case study of Bagmathi Basin, India by Amarnath, Giriraj, Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Pandey, Pooja, Alahacoon, Niranga, Yoshimoto, Shuhei

“…Monitoring flood extent using satellite observations just after the flood disasters is a core component of rapid emergency response process, which enables the emergency rescue teams to prioritize their efforts in critical areas to save lives and protect health, in addition to providing near real-time flooding information to the decision makers and planners. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the utility of less data intensive, but equally robust hydrodynamic models to develop flood extent maps in conjunction with freely available remote sensing imageries at different scales. …”
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Comparative assessment of yield potentials of improved cowpea breeding lines using performance index and ranking methods by Ajeigbe, Hakeem A., Mohammed, S., Singh, B.

“…The RT method is also an alternative approach devoid of much calculation and will therefore be a valuable tool for plant breeders especially when quick decisions are to be made on the selections of varieties. …”
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Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa by Mango, Nelson, Makate, Clifton, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mponela, Powell, Ndengu, Gift

“…On the other hand, the farmer’s age, distance travelled to the nearest market and nature of employment negatively influence the adoption of small-scale irrigation farming decisions. Ordinary least squares regression results showed that the adoption of small-scale irrigation farming as a climate-smart agriculture practice has a significant positive influence on agricultural income. …”
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Advancing the use of gridded, online climate information for risk management in the Horn of Africa by Kipkogei, Oliver, Siebert, Asher, Jordan, Pamela, Cousin, Rémi, Jama, Abdi, Hansen, James W.

“…Workshop participants appreciated the importance of these agro-climatic variables in making timely and informed decisions.…”
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Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors by Zhang, Wei, Kato, Edward, Bianchi, Felix J.J.A., Bhandary, Prapti, Gort, Gerrit, Werf, Wopke van der

“…In conclusion, our findings suggest that the presence of non-crop areas in the landscape and the diversification of agroecosystems may be a viable strategy for smallholder farmers to manage pests with limited reliance of chemical insecticides in Nigeria, but that actual pest management decisions are influenced by a wide range of context-specific factors. …”
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Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives by Bos, A.B., Duchelle, Amy E., Angelsen, A., Avitabile, Valerio, Sy, Veronique de, Herold, Martin, Joseph, S., Sassi, Claudio de, Sills, E.O., Sunderlin, William D., Wunder, Sven

“…Incorporating results from micro and meso level monitoring into national reporting systems is important, since overall REDD+ impact depends on land use decisions on the ground.…”
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Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana by Partey, Samuel T., Dakorah, Angela D., Zougmoré, Robert B., Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Nyasimi, Mary, Nikoi, Gordon K, Huyer, Sophia

“…Despite differences in access to CIS, the study showed both men and women found it beneficial for strategic farm decision-making such as when to begin land preparation, when to plant, and which crop to select. …”
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