Africa hosts approximately 33 million smallholder farms, which account for 80% of the continent's farming system. Subsistence farming systems face highly variable climatic conditions that threaten locally-adapted, low-input agriculture. For the near future, they are among the most seriously affec...
Mancini, C.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Pe, M.E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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[Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes]
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Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes
This training manual presents the objectives and tools used in focus group discussions for the survey on socio-economic and environmental factors that lead to farmers’ vulnerability as part of a joint project entitled “Linking genetic vulnerability to loss of resilience to adapt to climate change...
Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Bijdevaate, M.
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Mwenda, P.
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Morimoto, Y.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Bioversity International
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[Guiding focus group discussions on varietal diversification and adaptation to climate change in East Africa]
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Guiding focus group discussions on varietal diversification and adaptation to climate change in East Africa
A series of policy briefs bringing together the major results and policy recommendations of the Seeds for Needs project which started in 2009. The project was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC) in Ethiopia.
This project provides a unique framework f...
Gevel, Jeske van de
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Bioversity International
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Gellaw, A.
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Fadda, Carlo
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[Seeds for Needs: participatory variety selection]
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Seeds for Needs: participatory variety selection
This paper reviews and discusses how studies on (i) on-farm diversity assessment, (ii) access to diversity and information, (iii) extent of use of available materials and information, and (iv) benefits obtained by the farmer or farming community from their use of local crop diversity, are necessa...
Jarvis, Devra I.
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Hodgkin, T.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Fadda, Carlo
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López Noriega, I.
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[An heuristic framework for identifying multiple ways of supporting the conservation and use of traditional crop varieties within the agricultural production system]
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An heuristic framework for identifying multiple ways of supporting the conservation and use of traditional crop varieties within the agricultural production system
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region. This work aims to boost timely and affordable access to good-quality seed for a portfolio of crop...
Recha, Tobias
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Halewood, Michael
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Fadda, Carlo
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Mushita, Andrew
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kidane, Yosef
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[Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019]
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Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019
Mengistu, D.K.
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Kiros, A.
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Mohammed, J.
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Tsehaye, Y.
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Fadda, Carlo
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[Exploitation of diversity within farmers' durum wheat varieties enhanced the chance of selecting productive, stable and adaptable new varieties to the local climatic conditions]
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Exploitation of diversity within farmers' durum wheat varieties enhanced the chance of selecting productive, stable and adaptable new varieties to the local climatic conditions
Participation of farmers in research process from early stage has been gaining ground in breeding research. Participant farmers can provide very valuable scientific evaluation of genotypes that can be used for effective discrimination of useful varieties easily adopted by similar farmers. Partici...
Climate change is severely affecting production systems all over Africa. Ethiopia will face an increase in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns. One solution for long term management
of climate related risks is to introduce new traits into production systems. We present an approach to qui...
Fadda, Carlo
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Mancini, C.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Gebrehawaryat Kidane, Y.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Pe, M.E.
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[A crowdsourcing approach to detect farmers’ preferences: evidences from Ethiopia for adapting to climate change]
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A crowdsourcing approach to detect farmers’ preferences: evidences from Ethiopia for adapting to climate change
Crop adaptation to climate change requires accelerated crop variety introduction accompanied by recommendations to help
farmers match the best variety with their field contexts. Existing approaches to generate these recommendations lack scalability and predictivity in marginal production environm...
Etten, Jacob van
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Sousa, K. de
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Aguillar, A.
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Barrios, M.
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Coto, A.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Gebrehawaryat, Y.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gupta, A.
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Kiros, A.Y.
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Madriz, B.
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Mathur, P.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Mercado, L.
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Mohammed, J.N.
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Paliwal, A.
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Pe`, M.E.
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Quirós, C.F.
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Rosas, J.C.
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Sharma, N.
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Singh, S.S.
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Solanki, I.S.
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Steinke, J.
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[Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science]
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Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science