Crop-livestock farming systems in Babati are under severe pressure from a fast growing human population. Continuing soil fertility degradation and the extinction of communal resources are linked to low crop yields and high poverty rates among the smallholder farmers. Alternative intensification o...
Kirimbo, G.E.
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[Engaging smallholder-farmers in model-based identification of alternative options, trade-offs and synergies for sustainable intensification in North-Tanzania]
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Engaging smallholder-farmers in model-based identification of alternative options, trade-offs and synergies for sustainable intensification in North-Tanzania
Arbizu, Carlos
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Hermann, Michael
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[Algunos factores limitantes en el uso de raíces y tubérculos andinos y sus prioridades de investigación]
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Algunos factores limitantes en el uso de raíces y tubérculos andinos y sus prioridades de investigación
International Livestock Research Institute
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[Accelerated Value Chains Development Program: Annual report (October 2017 to September 2018)]
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Accelerated Value Chains Development Program: Annual report (October 2017 to September 2018)
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
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[Newsletter for Central & West Asia and North Africa: Issue no. 19 April 1999]
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Newsletter for Central & West Asia and North Africa: Issue no. 19 April 1999
Los parientes silvestres de los cultivos (PSC) se pueden definir como plantas silvestres más o menos relacionadas con un cultivo. Los PSC representan un recurso genético vital para el fitomejoramiento de variedades nuevas mejoradas, que se necesitan para mantener y aumentar la productividad de nu...
Hunter, D.
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Heywood, V.
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Bioversity International
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[Parientes silvestres de los cultivos: Manual para la conservación in situ]
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Parientes silvestres de los cultivos: Manual para la conservación in situ
In India, children may soon have school lunches that include finger millet instead of their usual rice. In Bolivia, a popular restaurant chain is offering its customers a menu containing a variety of dishes made from cañahua, an ancient Andean grain. Though on different sides of the world, these ...
Bioversity International
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[Creating markets for orphan crops: Bioversity International supports marketing link in food value chain]
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Creating markets for orphan crops: Bioversity International supports marketing link in food value chain
At first glance, the village of Zèko in southern Benin is like most other villages in the region. Farmers grow two main crops: maize and cassava. Families are poor, mostly surviving on less than US$ 2 a day, a seemingly typical subsistence existence. But when a Bioversity International research t...
Bioversity International
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[Showing diversity counts with custom methodology: Bioversity International’s ‘Tale of the tail’]
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Showing diversity counts with custom methodology: Bioversity International’s ‘Tale of the tail’
Geneflow is Bioversity International’s flagship public awareness publication, now in its 20th year of production. The publication describes actions by local, national regional and international programmes to improve livelihoods and to conserve and use agricultural biodiversity around the world. G...