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Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178644
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Regenerative agriculture is advocated as a response to environmental and socio-economic challenges, yet little research systematically examines its key proponents. We analyzed 849 actor websites and interviewed 131 regenerative farmers across five European countries. We mapped actor types, locations, sizes, and promoted themes (e.g. biodiversity) and practices (e.g. no-tillage). Our findings suggest regenerative…
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Epidemiological factors of septoria tritici blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum) in the highlands of Wollo, Ethiopia
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110764
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Septoria tritici blotch (STB) (Zymoseptoria tritici) is a major disease of durum wheat, an economic crop grown in the highlands of Wollo in Ethiopia.
To determine the status of this disease, we conducted surveys in five districts of Wollo (Meket, Woreilu, Wadila, Jama, and…
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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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Tracking a decade of food system transformation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: production, consumption, and nutrition
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179485
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Global deltas, including Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta (MRD), are fertile, densely populated, and vital for food production, yet their low-lying terrain leaves them highly vulnerable to climate change. By utilizing national data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSS), Statistical Year Books (SYB), and General Nutrition Surveys (GNS), this study examines the…
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Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126138
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A common theme emerging from nutrient omission trials conducted extensively across sub-Saharan Africa has been the large variability in yield response to applied nutrients. Yet, little is known about the factors associated with this variability. Therefore, the objectives of this review were to (1) synthesize the available data from nutrient omission…
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Digital framework for georeferenced multiplatform surveillance of banana wilt using human in the loop AI and YOLO foundation models
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179959
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Bananas (Musa spp.) are a critical global food crop, providing a primary source of nutrition for millions of people. Traditional methods for disease monitoring and detection are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to inaccuracies. This study introduces an AI-powered multiplatform georeferenced surveillance system designed to enhance the detection…
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The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138556
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Matching crop varieties to their target use context and user preferences is a challenge faced by many plant breeding programs serving smallholder agriculture. Numerous participatory approaches proposed by CGIAR and other research teams over the last four decades have attempted to capture farmers’ priorities/preferences and crop variety field performance in representative…
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Closing gender gaps through gender-responsive, demand-led breeding in Burundi
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138468
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Gender inequality persists in Burundi’s agricultural sector, especially in the bean value chain dominated by women. Women often have less access to improved seeds and to productive technologies. Interventions dubbed “gender-responsive plant breeding” have been launched to develop new varieties to address the gender gaps in variety adoption. Gender responsive planting breeding in Burundi targets to develop bean…
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Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130473
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Whether species coculture can overcome the shortcomings of crop monoculture requires additional study. Here, we show how aquatic animals (i.e. carp, crabs, and softshell turtles) benefit paddy ecosystems when cocultured with rice. Three separate field experiments and three separate mesocosm experiments were conducted. Each experiment included a rice monoculture (RM) treatment and a rice-…
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Spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae): Integrated pest management on gramineous crops in the Neotropical Ecozone
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125967
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Spittlebug (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) species cause large economic losses on gramineous crops (Poaceae) in tropical and subtropical America. These insects are key pests of sugarcane and forages, crops that experienced a quick expansion in extensive monocultures in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Mobilization toward sustainable crop and livestock systems to supply the growing demand of…
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South America’s pasture intensification can increase beef production, reduce emissions by 30% and mitigate warming from methane by 2050
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177295
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A limited understanding of the potential to reduce emissions and a lack of climate incentives hinder progress toward mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from beef production. This study explored the GHG mitigation potential in South America by evaluating nearly 30 beef cattle production systems across five key beef-producing countries (Argentina,…
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Socio-ecological benefits of fine-flavor cacao in its center of origin
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128068
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In the tropics, combining food security with biodiversity conservation remains a major challenge. Tropical agroforestry systems are among the most biodiversity friendly and productive land-use systems, and 70% of cocoa is grown by >6 million smallholder farmers living on <2$ per day. In cacao’s main centre of diversification, the western Amazon region, interest is growing to achieve premium prices with the…
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Characterization of cassava ORANGE proteins and their capability to increase provitamin A carotenoids accumulation
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128585
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Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) biofortification with provitamin A carotenoids is an ongoing process that aims to alleviate vitamin A deficiency. The moderate content of provitamin A carotenoids achieved so far limits the contribution to providing adequate dietary vitamin A levels. Strategies to increase carotenoid content focused on genes from the carotenoids biosynthesis…
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Complex agricultural landscapes host more biodiversity than simple ones: A global meta-analysis
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125210
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Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field level. However, a wide and growing body of evidence calls for zooming out and targeting agricultural policies, research, and interventions at the landscape level to halt and reverse the decline in biodiversity, increase…
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Food policy and the unruliness of consumption: An intergenerational social practice approach to uncover transforming food consumption in modernizing Hanoi, Vietnam
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108985
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Globally, food policies strive to steer citizens in specific directions, however consumption remains largely unruly. This is also the case in Hanoi, Vietnam, where the food safety driven supermarketisation policy is only minimally successful in diverting…
