This illustrated guide summarizes the key practices for producing clean planting material of banana with a high yield potential for smallholders, depending on the pests and diseases which are present. The guide is also designed to contribute to better planning of the propagation of planting mater...
Staver, Charles
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Lescot, T.
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[La multiplication de matériel de plantation de qualité pour améliorer l’état sanitaire et la productivité des cultures: Pratiques clefs pour les bananiers et les bananiers plantain: guide illustre]
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La multiplication de matériel de plantation de qualité pour améliorer l’état sanitaire et la productivité des cultures: Pratiques clefs pour les bananiers et les bananiers plantain: guide illustre
This illustrated guide summarizes the key practices for producing clean planting material of banana with a high yield potential for smallholders, depending on the pests and diseases which are present. The guide is also designed to contribute to better planning of the propagation of planting mater...
Staver, Charles
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Lescot, T.
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[La propagación de material de siembra de calidad para mejorar la salud y productividad del cultivo: prácticas clave para las musaceas: guia ilustrada]
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La propagación de material de siembra de calidad para mejorar la salud y productividad del cultivo: prácticas clave para las musaceas: guia ilustrada
The ILAC Initiative consists of an evolving community of individuals committed to increasing the contributions of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction around the world. ILAC promotes research, methodology development and capacity development to increase understanding of agricult...
Watts, J.
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Horton, D.
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[Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation]
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Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation
Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empo...
Leder, Stephanie
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Clement, Floriane
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Karki, Emma
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[Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in western Nepal]
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Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in western Nepal
There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the capacities required to face global patterns of change and their implicatio...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, Anne-Maree
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, T.
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[A new professionalism for agricultural research for development]
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A new professionalism for agricultural research for development
The overall measure of farm-level technical efficiency is generally used to derive recommendations for the use of individual inputs. In this paper, joint estimation is made of technical and individual input-use (e.g. irrigation water productivity) efficiencies. This indicates that overall technic...
Kuppannan, Palanisami
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Ramarao, R.C.
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Samiappan, S.
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Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh
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[Estimating technical and irrigation water productivities in rice production in Tamil Nadu, India]
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Estimating technical and irrigation water productivities in rice production in Tamil Nadu, India
Wortmann, Charles S.
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Fischler, MA
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Alifugani, F
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Kaizzi, CK
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[Accomplishments of participatory research for systems improvement in Iganga District, Uganda 1993 to 1997]
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Accomplishments of participatory research for systems improvement in Iganga District, Uganda 1993 to 1997
Markets for agricultural products with special quality, environmental, and social attributes can provide a profitable outlet for poor farmers in developing countries. However, participation in high value markets requires that farmers commit to deliver pre-identified volumes on time and in the req...
Donovan, J.
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Stoian, D.
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Foundjem, D.
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Blare, T.
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[Service provision by agri-cooperatives engaged in high value markets]
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Service provision by agri-cooperatives engaged in high value markets
Tropical land use is one of the leading causes of global environmental change. Sustainable agricultural development aims to reduce the negative environmental impacts of tropical land use whilst enhancing the well-being of the smallholder farmers residing in those areas. Interventions with this go...
Hammond, James
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Smajgl, A.
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Ward, J.
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Pagella, Tim
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Jianchu Xu
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Yufang Su
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Zhuang-Fang Yi
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Harrison, R.D.
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[Farm types and farmer motivations to adapt: Implications for design of sustainable agricultural interventions in the rubber plantations of South West China]
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Farm types and farmer motivations to adapt: Implications for design of sustainable agricultural interventions in the rubber plantations of South West China
The success of scaling out depends on a clear understanding of the factors that affect adoption of grain legumes and account for the dynamism of those factors across heterogeneous contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. We reviewed literature on adoption of grain legumes and other technologies in sub-Sah...
Farrow, Andrew
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Ronner, E.
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Brand, G. van den
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Boahen, S.
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Leonardo, W.
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Woldemeskel, Endalkachew
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Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel
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Chikowo, Regis
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Baijukya, Frederick P.
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Ebanyat, Peter
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Sangodele, S.
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Sanginga, J.M.
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Kantengwa, S.
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Phiphira, L.
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Woomer, P.L.
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Ampadu-Boakye, T.
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Baars, E.
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Kanampiu, F.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Giller, Ken E.
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[From best fit technologies to best fit scaling: incorporating and evaluating factors affecting the adoption of grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa.]
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From best fit technologies to best fit scaling: incorporating and evaluating factors affecting the adoption of grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa.