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Agroforestry Matches the Evolving Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Agenda in Asia and Africa

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december, 2022
Global

Mitigadaptation, tree-based synergy between the global climate change mitigation and adaptation agendas, has been slowly emerging in the 30 years of climate science–policy interaction with its various ups and downs, false starts and ever-increasing urgency of bending the climate curve.

Situation report on Nepal’s agrifood systems : April 2023

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december, 2022
Nepal

Nepal’s agrifood system remained economically stable during March of 2023. The year-on-year inflation in food and beverage prices has cooled down to 5.6% compared to 7.5% in Feb/March 2022. Field reports however suggest that this downward movement in prices have not yet translated to substantial changes in the cost of consumer and agricultural market goods.

Identifying the current and future status of freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin

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december, 2022
Venezuela

The Amazon Basin features a vast network of healthy, free-flowing rivers, which provides habitat for the most biodiverse freshwater fauna of any basin globally. However, existing and future infrastructure developments, including dams, threaten its integrity by diminishing river connectivity, altering flows, or changing sediment regimes, which can impact freshwater species.

Potato Value Chain: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach - An Extension Workers Manual

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december, 2022
Uganda

The manual is designed to assist the reader with information about potato value chain and its management in times of climate change. It is comprised of five chapters with coordinated content as summarized below. Chapter one gives some background and a contextual aspect of potato production in Uganda. It also outlines the importance of potato in the food system.

Narrowing yield gaps does not guarantee a living income from smallholder farming-an empirical study from western Kenya

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december, 2022
Kenya

Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa need to increase to keep pace with food demands from the burgeoning population. Smallholder farmers play an important role in national food self-sufficiency, yet many live in poverty. Investing in inputs to increase yields is therefore often not viable for them.

Sustainable intensification and household dietary diversity in maize-based farming systems of Zambia and Zimbabwe

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december, 2022

With only four years before the end date for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, the need to identify nutrition-sensitive and sustainable agricultural interventions that can address hunger and malnutrition cannot be more urgent.

Soil moisture content and maize grain yield under conventional and conservation agriculture practices - results of short term field tests in liselo, Namibia

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december, 2022
Namibia

This article focuses on the results from trials developed to monitor the short-term effects of conventionally tilled systems versus CA on soil quality and crop productivity under conditions of the major cropping systems in central, north-central and north-eastern regions of Namibia.

Genetic diversity and population structure of some Nigerian accessions of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.,) using DArT SNP markers

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december, 2022
Global

Bambara groundnut is one of the crops with inadequate molecular research to show its full potentials. Previous studies showed morphological diversity with inadequate information to confirm genetic variations.

Sunflower Value Chain: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach - An Extension Workers Manual

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december, 2022
Uganda

The manual is designed to assist the reader with information about sunflower value chain and its management in times of climate change. This manual takes the reader through a learning process on the importance, management, and benefits of sunflower crop. The different chapters describe the processes including production and post-harvest handling, marketing, challenges, and