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Toward a feminist agroecology: achieving a socially just and sustainable food systems transformation
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120076
Abstract
Food systems must be transformed if we are to feed the world without destroying the planet. Agroecological principles are central to creating and sustaining that change, but their transformative potential must be strengthened by better integrating critical gender and social inclusion considerations into agroecological approaches. In order for agroecology to achieve its espoused twin aims of…
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Resilient seed systems study tour to Uganda: highlights and insights
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121136
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From 30 May to 3 June 2022, a group of 16 agricultural professionals from government, private sector and non-governmental organizations, coming from Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan, travelled to Uganda to learn about the country’s experiences and achievements related to the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources and integrated seed sector development. The tour is part of a larger capacity development…
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Compensating farmers for ecosystem services: Lessons and an agenda for innovation
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125381
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The CompensACTION Initiative aims to promote payments for ecosystem services (PES) to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes at large scales while incentivizing climate action, sustainable farming and other environmental outcomes.
Key drivers for scaling up PES programs are increasing farmers’ benefits in PES schemes, using public finance to leverage private sector capital, and facilitating PES project…
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What needs to change in Babati for smallholder farmers to sustainably intensify? Lessons from 10 years of community action research: Evidence from Babati
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121869
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This brief presents existing opportunities to achieve increased crop production, diet diversification and increased incomes by smallholder farming households in Babati, Tanzania. It is based on a series of experimental research conducted under Africa RISING since 2012 including nutrient response trials, testing of different intercropping…
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Bean program 1977 report
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81685
Publication year
1978
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Full Citation
Bean program 1977 report.1978.. In: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. Bean Program. Annual Report 1977 . CIAT, Cali, CO. p. B-1-B-85. (02E1R-77)
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Target population of environments for bean breeding in Africa
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125269
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The target population of environments (TPE) approach aims at enhancing the effectiveness of crop improvement programs to achieve yield and/or genetic gains by helping to classify and prioritize regions based on stress patterns (frequency, onset, intensity and duration) and uses it to recommend improvement in the selection strategy. The beangrowing environments in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda can be categorized into six…
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Heat stress on dairy productivity: Policy recommendations for the dairy value chain in Zambia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120437
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The dairy industry is a significant contributor to Zambia’s economy. In 2019, the country had over 3.6 million cattle, with a total milk output of 453 million litres and smallholder dairy producers accounting for over 72% of this. Zambian milk production is inadequate to satisfy the country’s expanding demand for dairy products. Climate-related heat stress is expected to exacerbate the problem. A…
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Sweet potato value chain in Kenya
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125271
Abstract
Study on the sweet potato value chain in Kenya that revealed key strategies to reduce postharvest losses to improve food and nutrition security.
Publication year
2022
Authors
Onyango, Kevin
Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria
Polo, Carolina
Full Citation
Onyango, K.; Chege, C.; Polo, C…
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Propuesta de un año de referencia para los compromisos voluntarios, para la producción libre de deforestación en la Amazonía peruana
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121155
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Esta Política en Síntesis presenta una propuesta basada en una revisión extensa de fuentes bibliográficas y entrevistas estructuradas, como parte de un estudio sobre el año de referencia para los compromisos sobre la producción libre de deforestación en la Amazonía peruana. Posteriormente, la información ha sido validada a través de dos talleres de consulta…
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Mbili-Mbili technology: Increasing legume production in East Africa
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125404
Abstract
Mbili-Mbili is a cereal-legume intercropping strategy involving three crops with different growth patterns spatially configured within a field. It was developed within the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Program to get smallholder households out of hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty. Previously, significant work has been done to develop practices such as…
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The future for urban agriculture: Is it time to rewrite the rules of agriculture?
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120299
Publication year
2022
Authors
Pye-Smith, Charlie
Thornton, Philip K.
Wollenberg, Eva Karoline
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
Campbell, Bruce M.
Full Citation
Pye-Smith, C.; Thornton, P.; Wollenberg, E.; Loboguerrero, A.M.; Campbell, B.…
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Modelling the costs and benefits of breeding programmes using crop wild relatives reveals high potential returns
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120015
Abstract
Crop improvement strategies rely on a continued supply of genetic diversity and associated beneficial traits, of which crop wild relatives (CWR) are a major source. They provide cultivars with pest and disease resistance, heat and drought tolerance, tolerance of salinity and other abiotic stresses, and enhanced nutritional quality. It has been estimated that approximately 30%…
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Cadmio en cacao: lo que sabemos sobre prácticas de mitigación: Segundo resumen informativo de Clima-LoCa sobre cadmio en cacao
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121926
Abstract
El presente resumen informativo discute la evidencia científica disponible hasta la fecha, en relación con estrategias que los agricultores pueden aplicar para disminuir la concentración de cadmio en los granos de cacao (Figura 1). Un primer resumen informativo discute preguntas frecuentes acerca del origen del cadmio en cacao y acerca de las interpretaciones y…
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Nini tunapaswa kubadilisha ili wakulima wadogowadogo wa Babati wawe na kilimo endelevu na waimarike? Mambo ya kujifunza kutokana na utafiti wa kijamii uliofanyika kwa miaka 10. Muhstasari wa ushahidi kutoka Babati
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121871
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Muhtasari huu unaonyesha fursa zilizopo ili kufanikisha uzalishaji, lishe, pamoja na kipato kwa wakulima wadogowadogo katika wilaya ya Babati, Tanzania. Maelezo haya yametokana na mfululizo wa majaribio ya kitafiti yaliyofanyika chini ya mradi wa Africa RISING tangu mwaka 2012…
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Cassava
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81707
Abstract
The trends of world cassava production, yield, consumption, trade and prices are discussed for the period 1963-75. Data are given in table form. (CIAT)
Publication year
1978
Authors
Lynam, John K.
Full Citation
Lynam, J.1978. Cassava . In: Nores, Gustavo A.; Rivas…
