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Rangeland Degradation: Causes, Consequences, Monitoring Techniques and Remedies
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102393
Abstract
Rangelands occupy 25% of the total land surface globally. In Africa, rangelands are estimated to cover 66% of the land surface, although there are variations from country to country. In Eastern Africa, for example, land surface coverage of rangeland areas varies from 44% in Uganda and 65% in Ethiopia to 74% in Tanzania and over 80% in…
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Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100749
Abstract
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science.
Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies…
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Consumer acceptance of and willingness to pay for high-iron beans in northern Tanzania.
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105881
Publication year
2019
Authors
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
Lung'aho, Mercy G.
Ochieng, Justus
Binagwa, Papias
Mdachi, Mary
Zakayo, Eunice
Shida, Nestory
Msaky, John
Kadege,…
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Paying the Rent: How Endophytic Microorganisms Help Plant Hosts Obtain Nutrients
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103624
Abstract
Since plants first colonized land, endophytic bacteria and fungi have been inside them, contributing to their hosts' survival and evolution. Endophyte ecology is an active field of study seeking to understand principles of host strain selection and microbial provenance; although most plants were believed to take up endophytes from…
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Drought Resistance of Common Bean Water Spending and Water: Saving Plant Ideotypes
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105438
Publication year
2019
Authors
Polania, Jose A.
Rao, Idupulapati M.
Full Citation
Polania, J.A. and Idupulapati M. Rao. 2019. Drought Resistance of Common Bean Water Spending and Water: Saving Plant Ideotypes.…
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Grassland
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107141
Publication year
2019
Authors
McConkey, Brian
Ogle, Stephen Michael
Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
Kishimoto, Ayaka W. Mo
Baldock, Jeffrey
Trunov, Aleksandr
Full Citation
McConkey, B.; Ogle, S.M.; Chirinda, N.; Kishimoto, A.W.;…
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Drought Resistance of Tropical Forage Grasses: Opening a Fertile Ground for Innovative Research
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105437
Publication year
2019
Authors
Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés
Rao, Idupulapati M.
Full Citation
Cardoso, J. A. and Idupulapati M. Rao. 2019. Drought resistance of tropical forage grasses: Opening a…
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Protection, restoration and the sustainable use of landscapes — remedies to land degradation, and solutions to achieve the SDGs
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97424
Publication year
2018
Authors
Tamene, Lulseged D.
Abera, Wuletawu
Woldearegay, Kifle
Sommer, Rolf
Full Citation
Tamene, L., Abera, W.,…
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Assessing the effect of adding maize and rice brans in the development by twin-screw extrusion of a ready-to-eat cereal formulated with flours of quality protein maize and zinc biofortified rice
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105738
Abstract
A ready-to-eat cereal processed by a twin-screw extrusion was formulated, using flour and bran from a quality protein maize (QPM) variety and a zinc biofortified rice. The effect of variation of the content of bran in the…
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Caracterización fenotípica por resistencia a sequía terminal de germoplasma de frijol común
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89976
Abstract
Terminal drought is a worldwide constraint to common bean production and its negative effects will be increased by climate change. The objective of this research was to characterize phenotypically advanced lines and commercial cultivars of common bean for their resistance to terminal drought stress. Field trials were conducted…
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Diversity of Neopestalotiopsis and Pestalotiopsis spp., Causal Agents of Guava Scab in Colombia
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89977
Abstract
Common guava (Psidium guajava L.) is a fruit tree of global economic importance. It is grown in Asia, South and Central America, and Hawaii for its exquisite aroma and flavor, and nutritional and medical properties. However, guava production is limited by guava scab, caused by fungi in the Pestalotiopsis genus.…
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300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91960
Abstract
The management of hydrological extremes and impacts on society is inadequately understood because of the combination of short-term hydrological records, an equally short-term assessment of societal responses and the complex multi-directional relationships between the two over longer timescales.…
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Forage quality and tannin concentration and composition of a collection of the tropical shrub legumes Flemingia macrophylla
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82703
Abstract
A collection of 23 Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Merrill accessions of different growth habits and contrasting digestibility and one Flemingia stricta reference accession were assessed for forage quality with particular emphasis on digestibility, condensed tannin concentration and fiber content.…
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High iron and zinc beans: Kicking hidden hunger out of Malawi
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110899
Abstract
Two thirds (63%) of Malawian children suffer from anaemia; a condition of low haemoglobin levels in the body, and iron is a key component of haemoglobin [1]. Iron deficiency is estimated to be esponsible for half of all global anaemia cases, and iron-deficiency anaemia is a leading cause of global sickness [2]. Children suffering from iron-deficiency anaemia…
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Multipurpose leguminous trees for the lowland tropics in CIAT’s genebank.
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103511
Publication year
2019
Authors
González Guzman, J.J.
Debouck, Daniel G.
Wenzl, Peter
Full Citation
Gonzalez-Guzman, J.J., Debouck, D.G. and Wenzl, P. 2019. Multipurpose leguminous trees for the lowland…
