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Farmers, consumers and gatekeepers and their attitudes towards biotechnology
(Academic Journals, 2011)
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Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social–ecological systems: applying a gender lens
(Springer; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2016)
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Reconstituting family transitions of Sahelian western Niger 1950-2000: an agent-based modelling approach in a low data context
(Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, 2013)
This research analyses the impacts of the family organization on the diversity of income sources and the sustainability and the dynamics of rainfed farming systems of Sahelian Niger, through an individual-centred agent-based ...
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A spatial framework for ex-ante impact assessment of agricultural technologies
(Elsevier, 2019)
Traditional agricultural research and extension relies on replicated field experiments, on-farm trials, and demonstration plots to evaluate and adapt agronomic technologies that aim to increase productivity, reduce risk, ...
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Las variedades criollas del maíz, los mercados especializados y las estrategias de vida de los productores
(Asociación Ecología,Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes, 2013)
En Mexico, no obstante la gran inversion y los muchos años de influencia del mejoramiento formal e introduccion masiva de variedades mejoradas de maiz, los agricultores de pequeña escala siguen cultivando las variedades ...
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Seeding Eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2018)
Improved maize seed is instrumental to deliver an Asian-style ‘green revolution’ for Africa. The paper reviews and makes a comparative analysis of the maize (corn) seed sector and its evolution in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda ...
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Processor linkages and farm household productivity: evidence from dairy hubs in East Africa
(Wiley Periodicals, 2017)
Linking smallholder farmers to large enterprises could be a powerful mechanism to improve input and output markets as well as other productivity-enhancing services for liquidity constrained smallholders. Dairy hubs promoted ...
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Role of mobile phone enabled climate information services in gender-inclusive agriculture
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The mobile phone-enabled information delivery mechanism has the potential to reduce the knowledge gap between large and small farmers, and also across gender by creating awareness about new technologies and best practices. ...
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Identifying loci with breeding potential across temperate and tropical adaptation via EigenGWAS and EnvGWAS
(Wiley, 2019)
Understanding the genomic basis of adaptation in maize is important for gene discovery and the improvement of breeding germplasm, but much remains a mystery in spite of significant population genetics and archaeological ...
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Threats of tar spot complex disease of maize in the United States of America and its global consequences
(Springer Verlag, 2019)
The emergence and spread of new crop diseases threatens the global food security situation. Phyllachora maydis, one of the three fungal pathogens involved in Tar Spot Complex (TSC) of maize, a disease native to Latin ...