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
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
Coto, A.
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de Sousa, K.
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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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Gotor, E.
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Gupta, A.
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Madriz, B.
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Mathur, P.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Paliwal, A.
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Quirós, C.F.
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Scafetti, F.
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Sharma, N.
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Steinke, J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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[Seeds for Needs: crop diversity for resilience]
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Seeds for Needs: crop diversity for resilience
Rapid climatic and socio-economic changes challenge current agricultural R&D capacity. The necessary quantum leap in knowledge generation should build on the innovation capacity of farmers themselves. A novel citizen science methodology, triadic comparisons of technologies or tricot, was implemen...
Etten, Jacob van
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Beza, E.
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Calderer, L.
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Duijvebdijk, K. van
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Fadda, Carlo
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Fantahun, B.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gupta, A.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Kiambi, D.
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Mathur, P.N.
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Mercado, L.
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Mittra, S.
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Mollel, M.J.
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Rosas, J.C.
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Steinke, J.
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Suchini, J.G.
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Zimmerer, Karl S.
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[First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT)]
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First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT)