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Crop wild relatives are important for agriculture due to the genetic richness they possess. They have been used in plant breeding to develop high yielding varieties; varieties with improved resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and enhanced nutritional content. Securing their conservation in...

El frijol común, Phaseolus vulgaris L., es una de las leguminosas de consumo humano más importantes a nivel mundial y su cultivo está principalmente en manos de pequeños productores, que enfrentan una serie de limitantes bióticas y abióticas para su producción. Dentro de las abióticas están el es...

The thesis explores the extent to which payment for the ecosystem service of carbon sequestration provided in a value chain context, through an innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy known as 'carbon insetting', could generate 'win-win' outcomes for all actors. Drawing on e...

This study was conducted in Werii watershed (1797 km2) of Tekeze river basin, through integrative use of hydrological and climate models with the objective of estimating the impact of climate change on groundwater recharge and groundwater potentials. Statistical downscaling model (SDSM) was used ...

Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited la...

Although diversification and insurance are acknowledged as important in ameliorating risk, to our knowledge, no empirical study has investigated how the two approaches work in concert in developing countries. Given increasing climate variability and the risks it poses to rain-fed agriculture, thi...

An essential aspect for smallholder crop-livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is productive soils in order to maintain animal and crop productivity. Often, these systems are heavily dependent on local resources for their input and as a result, manure forms an important by-prod...