Cocoa agroforestry is perceived as potential adaptation strategy to sub-optimal or adverse environmental conditions such as drought. We tested this strategy over wet, dry and extremely dry periods comparing cocoa in full sun with agroforestry systems: shaded by (i) a leguminous tree species, Albi...
Abdulai, I.
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Vaast, Philippe
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Hoffmann, M.P.
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Asare, R.
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Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Rotter, Reimund P.
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Graefe, S.
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[Cocoa agroforestry is less resilient to sub-optimal and extreme climate than cocoa in full sun]
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Cocoa agroforestry is less resilient to sub-optimal and extreme climate than cocoa in full sun
The articles in this issue grapple with how climate-resilient approaches including climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can more effectively promote gender equality and women’s empowerment1. How can CSA be implemented in ways that improve the situation and empowerment of women as well as men. CSA has ...
Huyer, Sophia
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Partey, Samuel T
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[Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture - Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Approaches and Opportunities]
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture - Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Approaches and Opportunities
Food loss and waste (FLW) reduce food available for consumption and increase the environmental burden of production. Reducing FLW increases agricultural and value-chain productivity and may reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with feeding the global population. Although studies of interven...
Galford, Gillian L.
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Peña, Olivia
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Sullivan, Amanda K
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Nash, Julie
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Gurwick, Noel
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Pirolli, Gillian
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Richards, Meryl
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White, Julianna M.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Agricultural development addresses food loss and waste while reducing greenhouse gas emissions]
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Agricultural development addresses food loss and waste while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Agricultural biodiversity is a strategic asset, particularly for rural people. Agricultural biodiversity has a role in increasing agricultural sustainability, maintaining resilience at the landscape level, facilitating the ability of communities to adapt to a changing climate, improving their die...
Ambrozek, C.
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Zorilla, M.
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[Popular press reveals controversy and misconceptions regarding quinoa and food security]
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Popular press reveals controversy and misconceptions regarding quinoa and food security
L’agriculture dans la région des Grands Lacs a longtemps pâti de l’insécurité, de la dégradation de l’environnement et du manque d’investissement. La plupart des Congolais, Burundais et Rwandais sont démunis de tout et l’insécurité alimentaire y règne en maitre. Il était primordial de mettre en p...
Jethobudho is an aromatic rice landrace of the Pokhara valley in middle hills of Nepal. Although local consumers are willing to pay a high price for its purchase, the landrace has a problem with quality variation. Decentralized participatory population improvement for specific market-identified t...
Gyaw, S.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Bhandari, B.
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Bajracharya, J.
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Shrestha, P.K.
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Upadhyay, M.P.
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Jarvis, Devra I.
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[Participatory crop improvement and formal release of Jethobudho rice landrace in Nepal]
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Participatory crop improvement and formal release of Jethobudho rice landrace in Nepal
Ensuring an adequate food supply in systems that protect environmental quality and conserve natural resources requires productive and resource-efficient cropping systems on existing farmland. Meeting this challenge will be difficult without a robust spatial framework that facilitates rapid evalua...
Edreira, J.I.R.
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Cassman, Kenneth G.
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Hochman, Z.
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Ittersum, Martin K. van
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Bussel, Lenny G. J. van
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Claessens, Lieven
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Grassini, P.
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[Beyond the plot: technology extrapolation domains for scaling out agronomic science]
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Beyond the plot: technology extrapolation domains for scaling out agronomic science
The various ways in which livestock production systems can be incorporated into economic, partial-equilibrium, multi-market models are presented, and the challenges outlined. A particular focus and illustrative case is livestock feed. Foremost among the challenges is the reconciliation of scienti...
Msangi, Siwa
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Enahoro, Dolapo K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Magnan, Nicholas
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Havlík, Petr
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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Nelgen, Signe
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[Integrating livestock feeds and production systems into agricultural multi-market models: The example of IMPACT]
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Integrating livestock feeds and production systems into agricultural multi-market models: The example of IMPACT
A field experiment was undertaken to evaluate the effect of conservation agriculture (CA) based management on soil biological properties, and on fungal diversity and abundance after 5 years of continuous cultivation. Treatments included four crop managements viz., conventional tillage (CT) rice-w...
Choudhary, Madhu
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Sharma, Parbodh C
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Jat, Hanuman S.
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McDonald, Andrew
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Choudhary, Sharda
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Garg, Neelam
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[Soil biological properties and fungal diversity under conservation agriculture in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India]
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Soil biological properties and fungal diversity under conservation agriculture in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
What is the relationship between gender norms, agency, and agricultural innovation? How might we undertake and what can we learn from a comparative approach to this question? GENNOVATE—a comparative and collaborative research project—addresses these questions using contextually embedded qualitati...
Badstue, Lone B.
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Petesch, Patti
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Feldman, Shelley
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Prain, Gordon
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Elias, Marlène
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Kantor, Paula
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[Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: An introduction to GENNOVATE]
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Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: An introduction to GENNOVATE