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Insights into the costing of on-farm testing: A case study of maize tricot trials by Zambia Agricultural and Research Institute (ZARI)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182411
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This report summarizes the costing methods and key assumptions in the estimation of costing for the maize tricot trial under the Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI). It outlines the major expenditure components and shows how each contributes to total implementation costs. It highlights the major cost drivers and shows how deviations from the…
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User-centered early warning system protecting over 500,000 pastoralists and livestock from drought in Borana zone and Somali Region, Ethiopia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182339
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The Livestock Water and Pasture Monitoring and Early Warning System (LWPM-EWS) strengthened climate resilience among pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia’s Borana Zone, Oromia Region, and the Somali Regional State. Implemented with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Research…
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Co-creating Ethiopia's national agroecology strategy: A multi-stakeholder process engaging 86 institutions
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182061
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Since November 2024, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and CIFOR-ICRAF have partnered with the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture to co-create Ethiopia’s National Agroecology Strategy (2026–2040). Through a nationally led, multi-stakeholder process, the initiative established a technically robust and nationally owned policy framework to transform Ethiopia’s…
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Gender Transformative Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles (GTSTIBs) scaling roadmap - Wolmera
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182398
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Wolmera is one of Oromia Region’s most strategically positioned and commercially dynamic 1woredas for high-value vegetable production, largely due to its proximity to Addis Ababa and other urban markets, the presence of active cooperatives and Vegetable Business Networks (VBNs), and a growing pool of youth-led agribusiness initiatives. Despite these advantages, productivity and profitability remain…
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Climate-smart agribusinesses in Eastern Africa are investment-ready with the support of AI-enabled risk assessment tools
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182336
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In 2025, AI-enabled risk assessment tools were piloted to support enhanced investment-readiness for climate-smart agribusinesses in Eastern Africa. The tools applied structured analytical frameworks integrating enterprise, finance, and climate data to generate standardized diagnostics comparable in scope to traditional advisory assessments, while reducing time and…
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Protocol for selecting participants for advocacy, leadership and couple learning
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182399
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This protocol serves as a comprehensive framework for identifying and selecting participants for three specialised training streams: Advocacy, Couple Collaboration, and Leadership. The primary objective is to move beyond broad representation toward a strategic selection of individuals and households best positioned to translate learning into collective action, climate resilience, and sustain community change.…
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The looming concern of climate, peace and security in South Africa: Implications for policy and climate action
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182394
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Climate change in South Africa is increasingly a driver of human insecurity, compounding socio-economic vulnerabilities and heightening risks to peace and stability. Provinces such as Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, and Western Cape face intensifying droughts and floods that disrupt livelihoods, strain food, land, and water systems, and drive rural–urban migration. These…
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Strategic roadmap for the institutionalisation and national scaling of the Youth and Women Quality Centres (YWQC) model
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182400
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Agriculture remains the backbone of Uganda’s economy, contributing between 20–24 percent of GDP and supporting the livelihoods of more than 70 percent of the population. Despite its importance, the sector is dominated by smallholder farmers who face persistent challenges, including limited access to high-quality seeds, declining soil fertility, climate change impacts, and…
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Lessons learned across scaling pathways
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182418
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This information note distills key lessons from AICCRA’s efforts to scale climate-smart agriculture and climate information services across Africa. The findings highlight that effective scaling is not a linear process of technology dissemination, but a demand-led, context-specific, and partnership-driven endeavor. AICCRA’s experience across multiple scaling pathways, ranging from digital services and accelerators to farmer capacity development,…
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The Nutrition-Sensitive Food Environment Index: A comprehensive approach to assessing food environments in association with health risks for policy decision making
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175055
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Food environment indices often focus on food affordability, overlooking public health aspects. This study introduces a Nutrition-Sensitive Food-Environment Index (N-FEI) that assesses the interplay between food diversity, accessibility, and water and sanitation facilities linked to malnutrition risks.
Data from 17,294 food…
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An emerging Platynota sp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) infesting blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in the central coast of Peru
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175418
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Blueberry cultivation has recently become a rapidly expanding export industry in Peru. With few to no official records of phytosanitary problems up to date. Nevertheless, as observed in other major blueberry producer countries, pests occurrences have been already reported. This study presents a comprehensive biological and molecular characterization of a novel…
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Future research directions for climate-sensitive social protection
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177840
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The limited global coverage of social protection, fragmented adaptation efforts, and a volatile political and security situation in the Sahel mean that the ambitions of existing social protection approaches may miss the mark. Better understanding the barriers to scaling up and the avenues towards prudently adapting existing programs would be a first step in designing impactful national systems. This article builds on a…
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Evaluating common bean elite lines in two contrasting ecologies of north India: eco–phenological dynamics and environment relations to crop yields
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177233
Publication year
2025
Authors
Basavaraja, T.
Tripathi, A.
Hazra, K.K.
Chandora, Rahul
Gurumurthy, S.
Rana, Jai Chand
Pratap, Aditya
Singh, M.
Kanishka, R.C.
Dixit, G.P…
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Mapping peatland distribution and quantifying peatland below‐ground carbon stocks in Colombia's Eastern Lowlands
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174457
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The extent and distribution of tropical peatlands, and their importance as a vulnerable carbon (C) store, remain poorly quantified. Although large peatland complexes in Peru, the Congo basin, and Southeast Asia have been mapped in detail, information on many other tropical areas is uncertain. In the Eastern Colombian lowlands, peatland area estimates range from 700 km 2 to…
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Nutritive value of perennial pastures along an elevation gradient in tropical conditions
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179472
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The nutritive value of forages is one of the main drivers of productivity for livestock. In many tropical regions, same grass species occur at different elevations, but few studies have evaluated nutritive value changes within elevation gradients. Methods The objective of this study was to analyze the changes in nutritive value of six grass genera across and within elevation gradients in Costa Rica. We…
