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
Ethiopia is one of the most populous countries in Africa, with more than 96 million inhabitants, 80% of whom are engaged in small-scale agriculture, and often subsistence farming. We involved 60 smallholder farmers in two locations in Ethiopia to evaluate traits of their interest in 400 wheat acc...
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, Martin
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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
Current climate change projection models show that both temperature and precipitation are expected to increase in the Horn of Africa, and that climate uncertainty and frequency of extreme events will most likely increase the vulnerability of the rural poor in the region, Ethiopia included. Geneti...
Kassahum, D.
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Kidane, Y.
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Mancini, C.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe’, M.E.
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Bioversity International
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[Using diversity of Ethiopian durum wheat to challenge climate change: a three pronged approach]
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Using diversity of Ethiopian durum wheat to challenge climate change: a three pronged approach
Smallholder farming communities face highly variable climatic conditions that threaten locally adapted, low-input agriculture. The benefits of modern crop breeding may fail to reach their fields when broadly adapted genetic materials do not address local requirements. To date, participatory metho...
Mancini, C.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Pè, M.E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Melfa and Workaye Farmer Community
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Kidane, Y.G.
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[Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat]
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Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat
Smallholder agriculture involves millions of farmers worldwide. A methodical utilization of their traditional knowledge in modern breeding efforts may help the production of locally adapted varieties better addressing their needs.
In this study, a combination of participatory approaches, genomi...
Kidane, Y.G.
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Mancini, C.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Frascaroli, E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe, M.E.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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[Genome wide association study to identify the genetic base of smallholder farmer preferences of Durum wheat traits]
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Genome wide association study to identify the genetic base of smallholder farmer preferences of Durum wheat traits
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