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Travel time to livestock markets,dairy markets, input suppliers, livestock service providers, financial credit providers, and water bodies
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108558
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The Techfit tool provides a means to identify suitable feed technologies to address four key constraints: dry season feed availability, growing season feed availability, feed quantity and feed quality. The feasibility of introducing each technology is assessed using proxies for seven attributes: land availability, water availability, labour, capital…
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Upland rice from technological validation areas and community banks of seeds in Nicaragua
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108518
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This dataset contains 287 crop cycles for upland rice in 14 departments of Nicaragua that were collected in the period 2016 – 2018. In the dataset, 100 and 187 records came from technological validation areas and community banks of seeds, respectively. Each location was georeferenced. Variables such as cultivar, planting practices, harvest date, and region were also recorded. Finally, Worclim and soil…
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Farm-level exploration of economic and environmental impacts of sustainable intensification of rice-wheat cropping systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110078
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Agriculture in rural Bihar needs to maintain its productivity while enhancing its biophysical sustainability. To sustainably intensify the predominant rice-wheat systems, alternative cropping patterns with short duration legumes, planted in the usually fallow…
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From pixels to plant health: Accurate detection of banana Xanthomonas wilt in complex African landscapes using high-resolution UAV images and deep learning
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159366
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Abstract Bananas and plantains are vital for food security and smallholder livelihoods in Africa, but diseases pose a significant threat. Traditional disease surveillance methods, like field visits, lack accuracy, especially for specific diseases like Xanthomonas wilt of banana (BXW). To address this, the present study develops a Deep-…
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Assessing methane emissions from paddy fields through environmental and UAV remote sensing variables
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173771
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Concerns about methane (CH4) emissions from rice, a staple sustaining over 3.5 billion people globally, are heightened due to its status as the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gases, driving climate change. Accurate quantification of CH4 emissions from rice fields is crucial for understanding gas concentrations. Leveraging technological advancements, we present a groundbreaking…
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Dynamic mixtures reduce the severity of a number of diseases in rice and bean in low‑input mountain farming systems of Nepal
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174867
Publication year
2025
Authors
Neupane, Shree Prasad
Joshi, Bal Krishna
Dipendra, Ayer
Ajaya, Karkee
Krishna, Hari Ghimire
Gauchan, Devendra
Mengistu, Dejene
Ceccareli, Salvatore
Grando, Stefania…
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Evolution of soil fertility research and development in Ethiopia: From reconnaissance to data-mining approaches
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/118124
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Meeting the burgeoning global demand for both food and energy requires substantial yield increases through the efficient use of inputs like fertilizers. Prompted by the result of a soil survey expedition in the late 1950s, which signaled a widespread deficiency of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), plant nutrition research in Ethiopia began in the 1960s, focusing on the response of…
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The ÓMICAS alliance, an international research program on multi-omics for crop breeding optimization
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127303
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The OMICAS alliance is part of the Colombian government’s Scientific Ecosystem, established between 2017-2018 to promote world-class research, technological advancement and improved competency of higher education across the nation. Since the program’s kick-off, OMICAS has focused on consolidating and validating a multi-scale, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary strategy and…
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Digital behaviour change ecosystems for sustainable innovation
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181212
Abstract
This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on digital behaviour change
ecosystems (DBCE) in the context of sustainable innovation. The concept of digital
behaviour change ecosystem is gaining increasing attention across multiple domains,
including agriculture, information systems, health, and environmental management.
This emerging paradigm requires research institutions and organizations to design
their digital…
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The carbon footprint of young-beef cattle finishing systems in the Eastern Plains of the Orinoco River Basin of Colombia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129680
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Introduction: Previous research has shown increased productivity amongst sown grass pastures compared to native savanna pastures by year-round grazing for fattening of adult and young Brahman (Bos indicus)-bred cattle in the well-drained native savanna ecosystem of the Colombian Orinoquía. But there is limited information on the carbon footprint (CF) of commercial young-…
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Translating virome analyses to support biosecurity, on-farm management, and crop breeding
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129687
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Virome analysis via high-throughput sequencing (HTS) allows rapid and massive virus identification and diagnoses, expanding our focus from individual samples to the ecological distribution of viruses in agroecological landscapes. Decreases in sequencing costs combined with technological advances, such as automation and robotics, allow for efficient processing and analysis of numerous samples in plant…
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Phenotypic characterization, genetic diversity assessment in 6,778 accessions of Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. vulgare) germplasm conserved in national genebank of India and development of a core set
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130502
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The entire collection of cultivated barley germplasm accessions conserved in the Indian National Genebank (INGB) was characterized for nine qualitative and 8 quantitative traits to assess the nature and magnitude of prevailing genetic variability and to develop a core set. A wide range of…
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Yield and climatic parameters in a common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) regional trial
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176674
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Abstract Understanding patterns of crop response to environmental factors is critical to simulating target environments in selection environments. In early stages of varietal development, breeding lines are usually developed in centralized facilities. Subsequently, testing continues on a broader array of research stations before dissemination to farmers, fields. Such a system is practiced in common bean…
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Co-designing fodder diversification and co-products recycling fosters effectiveness, productivity and agroecological transition of dairy farms in Burkina Faso
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180774
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Introduction Burkina Faso's dairy farms, whether extensive or semi-intensive, face major sustainability challenges. Introducing agroecological technologies offers an opportunity to optimize the use of local resources and enhance farm resilience and productivity. This study presents an innovative approach that tests and assesses…
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Accelerating innovation and impact in EU-Africa collaboration for sustainable food systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173642
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This policy brief focuses on the critical importance of fostering the uptake and impact of research and innovation (R&I) in agrifood systems, particularly within the context of EU-Africa collaboration. As Africa faces mounting challenges from climate change, resource scarcity, and food insecurity, R&I should not only produce innovative solutions but also facilitate their widespread adoption…
