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Clim-ARM: Integrating weather and climate analytics into agricultural risk management
For small scale farmers in Sub Saharan Africa, increasing occurrences of climate events such as drought, floods, heat and storms continue to pose great risks to agricultural production, food security and rural livelihoods.
Small-scale producers in Rwanda and Ethiopia are among many in Sub-…
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Comités locales ayudan a cerrar la brecha entre la información climática y unas mejores cosechas para los productores
Una de las coautoras de un reciente informe del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC) afirma que aún queda trabajo por hacer para brindar a los productores la información climática que necesitan para adaptarse al cambio climático. La investigación de la Alianza muestra que los comités…
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Decision tools for climate change adaptation
©2015CIAT/StephanieMalyon
Devinia Princess Akinyi, Stanley Karanja Ng'ang'a
The Climate Smart Agriculture-Prioritization framework (CSA-PF) is an elaborate step-by-step process that helps stakeholders narrow down a long list of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices to a short portfolio of viable options…
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Harmonization of access and benefit sharing of crop wild relatives in Eastern and Southern Africa
Oryza spp. in Kafue National Park, Zambia
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©ZARI
Prishnee Bissessur
Crop wild relatives, how to access them and share their derived benefits within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and the African continent, were at the…
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Lanzamiento de PERU-Hub, Peruvian Extension and Research Utilization Proyecto que llevará tecnología a la Amazonía peruana
Tarapoto, Región San Martín: La Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM) y la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional de los Estados Unidos (USAID), en alianza con las Universidades de Oklahoma (OU), Utah State (USU), Purdue y la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT de Colombia, presentaron…
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Understanding the economic impact of BXW and its management practices in East and Central Africa
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97876
Abstract
Banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is a widespread banana disease in East and Central Africa (ECA). It has the ability to cause up to 100% yield loss, severely compromising food security and livelihoods for banana-based farming households. There are no BXW-resistant varieties, and cultural management practices offer the only…
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Scaling up feed additives & evidence for impacts
Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in Southwestern Ethiopia
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©2007 Stevie Mann, ILRI
As the livestock sector seeks to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, efforts to identify greenhouse gas emission mitigation opportunities have accelerated.
18 -…
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Defining the future of food systems transformation in the ASEAN
Ba Vi National Park, hotspot of biodiversity and CIAT field trial site.
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©2015CIAT/GeorginaSmith
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), working together with seven other CGIAR Centers under the guidance of the CGIAR Regional…
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A large nested association mapping population for breeding and quantitative trait locus mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105890
Abstract
The Ethiopian plateau hosts thousands of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) farmer varieties (FV) with high adaptability and breeding potential. To harness their unique allelic diversity, we produced a large nested association mapping (NAM) population intercrossing fifty Ethiopian FVs with…
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The Global Crop Diversity Trust: A foundation for food security
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67445
Publication year
2009
Authors
Moore, C.
Full Citation
Moore, C. -2009-The Global Crop Diversity Trust: A foundation for food security- -Bioversity International
Publication Type
Poster
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Diversity for Life
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67444
Publication year
2009
Authors
Moore, C.
Full Citation
Moore, C. -2009-Diversity for Life- -Bioversity International
Publication Type
Poster
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New life for ancient grains: improving the livelihoods, nutrition and incomes of Andean communities
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67449
Publication year
2009
Authors
Bioversity International
Full Citation
Bioversity International , Americas Office-2009-New life for ancient grains: improving the livelihoods, nutrition and incomes of Andean…
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Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design. Volume I
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99242
Abstract
This publication, Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a
particular focus on smallholder producers. The participatory and consultative…
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Modeling the dynamics of banana Xanthomonas wilt transmission incorporating infectious force in both asymptomatic and symptomatic stages
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98557
Abstract
Despite massive efforts by regional governments and partners in the East and Central African region towards fighting Xanthomonas Wilt of banana, the disease is reported to continue to spread to new areas and resurge in others it had been contained. The use of asymptomatic but…
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Morphotype diversity of Corchorus olitorius and influence of agricultural practices on its potential major pest insects
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99292
Publication year
2018
Authors
Gbedolo, A.E.
Dassou, A.G.
Dassou, H.G.
Aminon, I.D.
Omondi, Bonaventure Aman Oduor
Dansi, A.
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