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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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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…
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The pangenome of banana highlights differences between genera and genomes
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114232
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Banana (Musaceae family) has a complex genetic history and includes a genus Musa with a variety of cultivated clones with edible fruits, Ensete species that are grown for their edible corm, and monospecific Musella whose generic status has been questioned. The most commonly exported banana cultivars belong to Cavendish, a subgroup of Musa triploid cultivars, which is under threat by fungal pathogens, though there are…
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The impact of climate change on food systems, diet quality, nutrition, and health outcomes: A narrative review
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120949
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Many consequences of climate change undermine the stability of global food systems, decreasing food security and diet quality, and exposing vulnerable populations to multiple forms of malnutrition. The emergence of pandemics such as Covid-19 exacerbate the situation and make interactions even more complex. Climate change impacts food systems at different levels, including changes…
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Soil carbon storage potential of acid soils of Colombia's Eastern High Plains
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125119
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Improving soil organic carbon (SOC) storage enhances soil quality and mitigates climate change. Agricultural and livestock specialists increasingly view tropical grasslands as a potential target for storing more soil carbon while boosting productivity. Earlier research in the 1990s showed the promise of improving SOC storage in the Eastern High Plains of Colombia. But these studies were limited to two…
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Analysis of fishers’ wellbeing in the western region of Ghana
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130405
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Small-scale fisheries in Ghana are declining in response to the global fisheries crisis. The policies to curb this situation are dependent on the wellbeing of fishers in terms of material condition, quality of life, and transformative strategies for sustainable livelihoods. This paper employs survey data to investigate the wellbeing of fishers, using descriptives, principal-component analysis, and structural equation modelling.…
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UAV-based canopy textures assess changes in forest structure from long-term degradation
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107980
Publication year
2020
Authors
Bourgoin, Clément
Betbeder, Julie
Couteron, Pierre
Blanc, Lilian
Dessard, Hélène
Oszwald, Johan
Le Roux, Renan
Cornu, Guillaume
Reymondin,…
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Draft Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 from Peru, obtained by nanopore and illumina hybrid assembly
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121010
Abstract
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc TR4) is the causal agent of Fusarium wilt, a major threat to the banana industry worldwide. Here, we report the genome of a Foc TR4 strain from Peru, sequenced using a combination of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
Publication year
2022…
