Co-composted dewatered faecal sludge (FS) with organic fractions of municipal solid waste (MSW) has a high potential to be used as an agricultural resource in Sri Lanka. In addition to options for cost recovery in waste management, closing the nutrient and carbon cycles between urban and rural ar...
Grau, Felix
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Drechsel, Nikita
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Haering, V.
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Trautz, D.
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Weerakkody, W.J.S.K.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Marschner, B.
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Dissanayake, D.M.P.S.
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Sinnathamby, V.
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[Impact of fecal sludge and municipal solid waste co-compost on crop growth of Raphanus Sativus L. and Capsicum Anuum L. under stress conditions]
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Impact of fecal sludge and municipal solid waste co-compost on crop growth of Raphanus Sativus L. and Capsicum Anuum L. under stress conditions
Yams (Dioscorea spp.) constitute a staple food crop for over 100 million people in the humid and subhumid tropics. They are polyploid and vegetatively propagated. The Guinea yams, Dioscorea rotundata and D. cayenensis, are the most important yams in West and Central Africa where they are indigeno...
This article discusses access and benefit sharing within the context of participatory plant breeding. It presents how Chinese farmers and breeders collaborate in relation to crop improvement and on-farm maintenance of plant genetic resources. Based on more than a decade of action-research, a numb...
Song. Y.
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Zhang, Y.
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Song, X.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China]
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Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China
Miiro, Richard
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Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel
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Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha
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[Bean breeding by the Pan African Bean Research Alliance: Trainer explanations of training Results]
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Bean breeding by the Pan African Bean Research Alliance: Trainer explanations of training Results
In many crop species, the transfer of agronomically important genes from wild species has been possible through chromosomal manipulations. Haploids have been useful in the production of homozygous lines. Induced polyploids find direct use in crops in which the seed is not the economic produce. As...
Crop varieties play an important role in climate adaptation, allowing farmers to adjust the varieties they use to suit new climate conditions. Several barriers stand in the way of this approach. First, variety recommendations are often based on data from trials done at research stations, which do...
Fadda, Carlo
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Etten, Jacob van
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[Generating farm-validated variety recommendations for climate adaptation]
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Generating farm-validated variety recommendations for climate adaptation