Water is critically important to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people living on less than $1 a day, particularly for the 850 million rural poor primarily engaged in agriculture. In many developing countries, water is a major factor constraining agricultural output, and income of the worl...
Namara, Regassa E.
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Hanjra, Munir A.
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Castillo, G.E.
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Ravnborg, Helle Munk
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Smith, L.
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Agricultural water management and poverty linkages]
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Agricultural water management and poverty linkages
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) occupies a uniquely important position as a food security crop for smallholder farmers in areas of the tropics where climate, soils, or societal stresses constrain production. Given its reliability and productivity, cassava is the most important locally produced food i...
In Africa the cassava green mite, Mononychellus tanajoa, is an important pest of cassava, Manihot esculenta. Phytoseiid mites from South America are being evaluated as potential biological control agents of this alien pest. We evaluated six phytoseiid (Acari: Phytoseiidae) species, collected in S...
Cuéllar Jimenez, M.E.
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Calatayud, Paul-André
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Melo Molina, EL
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Smith, L.
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Bellotti, Anthony C.
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[Consumption and oviposition rates of six phytoseiid species feeding on eggs of the cassava green mite Mononychellus tanajoa (Acari: Tetranychidae)]
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Consumption and oviposition rates of six phytoseiid species feeding on eggs of the cassava green mite Mononychellus tanajoa (Acari: Tetranychidae)