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Banana Xanthomonas Wilt disease management through roguing affects ground-dwelling arthropods composition, abundance and diversity
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178853
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The role of ground-dwelling arthropods in sustaining cropping systems by providing ecosystem services is well appreciated. This study was conducted to determine the effects of roguing of diseased banana plants as a banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) management practice on ground-dwelling arthropod composition, abundance and diversity in a banana cropping system. The…
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Integrating food biodiversity into public food procurement: a Brazilian Amazon case of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178709
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This study explores the integration of food biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Local Communities (LCs) into public food procurement. Using a primarily qualitative approach, it combines a scoping review with a case study of Brazil's National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) across six municipalities in the eastern…
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Differential growth and transpiration responses among banana (Musa Spp.) hybrids— hope for breeding drought tolerant bananas?
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176301
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This study, one of the first in its kind, uses a promising approach to phenotype and evaluate offspring and presents the evaluation of 16 East African Highland type banana hybrids ( Musa spp.) purposely bred for drought avoidance and tolerance. Despite primarily using the Musa acuminata genetic background, promising genotypes were identified.…
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Workers, producers, buyers, and market dynamics: Understanding value flows in the coffee supply chain
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176857
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Abstract This study explores the roles of workers, producers, and buyers in the Honduran coffee supply chain, focusing on how market structure, bargaining power, and value flows shape market outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach — combining a literature review, secondary data analysis, and in-depth interviews — it investigates the relationships among farmers, workers, cooperatives,…
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Linking rhizosphere bacterial life-history strategies with wheat growth under drought stress
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174878
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The metabolic complexity of microorganisms can be simplified by classifying them into r-strategists and K-strategists. However, their associations with plant growth during drought remain largely unclear. Herein, we used the ribosomal RNA gene operon (rrn) copy number to characterize bacterial life-history strategies, with increased rrn copy numbers suggesting a shift from K- to r-strategies. We…
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Ecosystem restoration centered in people
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174968
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Ecosystem restoration is primarily led by biodiversity and climate change imperatives, often disregarding associated yet complex social, cultural, political, economic, institutional, and behavioral aspects. Ultimately, it is people who take decisions on, carry out, and are impacted by restoration. The sociopolitical contexts in which ecosystem restoration takes place, stakeholders' decisions leading to degradation or motivations to restore,…
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Unravelling the complex story of intergenomic recombination in ABB allotriploid bananas
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109052
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• Background and Aims Bananas (Musa spp.) are a major staple food for hundreds of millions of people in developing countries. The cultivated varieties are seedless and parthenocarpic clones of which the ancestral origin remains to be clarified. The most important cultivars are triploids with an AAA, AAB or ABB genome constitution,…
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Small-scale farming, gender relations and resource allocation: Barriers to adoption of nature-positive solutions in Western Kenya
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135376
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The agricultural sector is a key driver of climate change and biodiversity loss and is in urgent need for transition. NATURE+, a large-scale CGIAR agricultural development initiative, aims to support small-holder farmers in shifting agrifood systems to more sustainable pathways by adopting nature-positive solutions. With gender equality at its core, it is…
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The tricot citizen science approach applied to on-farm variety evaluation: methodological progress and perspectives
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111044
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Tricot (triadic comparisons of technologies) is a citizen science approach for testing technology options in their use environments, which is being applied to on-farm testing of crop varieties. Over the last years, important progress has been made on the tricot methodology of which an overview is given.…
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How can policy analysis benefit from AI and human-in-the-loop approach
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182822
Publication year
2026
Authors
Song, Chun
Ng'ethe, Regina Waithera
Full Citation
Song, C.; Ng'ethe, R.W. (2026) How can policy analysis benefit from AI and human-in-the-loop approach. 4 p.
Publication Type
Brief…
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ACCELERATING IMPACTS OF CGIAR CLIMATE RESEARCH FOR AFRICA (AICCRA) (P173398) UPDATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138365
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The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project activities in Kenya are focused on improving the quality of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices and information services in the Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) areas of Kenya. The project seeks to increase awareness and uptake of selected climate-smart agricultural (CSA)…
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Response of pasture vegetation communities and soil carbon and nitrogen in Hulunbuir to different restoration measures
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182805
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In order to improve the phenomenon of pasture degradation，fencing and sealing，application of farmyard manure，mechanical perforation and other means of restoration have been adopted for grazing land．The response patterns of grassland vegetation communities and soil nutrients were explored under the adoption of different restoration methods，and the effects of the …
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A distributed large‐volume soil sampling approach to address spatial heterogeneity in eDNA data collection
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182791
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Soil sampling for eDNA is a useful approach to assess ecological communities in specific locations, such as comparing community composition across different site treatments. However, species' dispersal abilities and habitat selection, among many other factors, drive the uneven distribution of organisms across the landscape. Thus, to accurately detect and evaluate community…
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Fortaleciendo la poscosecha, la calidad y la agregación de valor de cultivos nutritivos en Cauca y Putumayo
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182803
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Este reporte presenta los principales resultados de las actividades de capacitación en calidad poscosecha y agregación de valor implementadas en el marco del proyecto EPINER (Environmental Peacebuilding for Improved Nutrition and Emissions Reduction), así como los retos y oportunidades para el fortalecimiento de capacidades y la promoción de un desarrollo rural integral de la…
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Lessons learned on socio-ecological drivers of innovation uptake by smallholder farmers–a case study in Kenya
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182831
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Socio-economic and environmental conditions play an important role in driving technological transformation and sustainability. Based on an innovation project conducted in Kenya, this study demonstrates how socio-ecological analyses can facilitate the adoption of agricultural technologies. This project focused on subsurface water retention technology (SWRT), a climate adaptation…
