Breeding Schemes: What Are They, How to Formalize Them, and How to Improve Them? by Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran, Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran, Zelalem Gebeyehu, Dorcus Gemenet, Dorcus Gemenet, Christian Werner, Christian Werner, Marlee Labroo, Marlee Labroo, Solomon Sirak, Peter Coaldrake, Ismail Rabbi, Siraj Ismail Kayondo, Elizabeth Parkes, Edward Kanju, Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo, Afolabi Agbona, Peter Kulakow, Michael Quinn, Michael Quinn, Jan Debaene, Jan Debaene

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The roles of community nutrition scholars in changing mothers' child feeding, food preparation, and hygiene practices in southern Bangladesh by Nozomi Kawarazuka, Farhana Ibrahim, Ebna Habib Md. Shofiur Rahaman, Gordon Prain

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FieldSimR: an R package for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials by Christian R. Werner, Christian R. Werner, Dorcus C. Gemenet, Dorcus C. Gemenet, Daniel J. Tolhurst

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Bridging the phenotypic and genetic data useful for integrated breeding through a data annotation using the Crop Ontology developed by the crop communities of practice by Rosemary eShrestha, Luca eMatteis, Milko eSkofic, Arlett ePortugal, Graham eMcLaren, Glenn eHyman, Elizabeth eArnaud

“…The Crop Ontology (CO) of the Generation Challenge Program (GCP) (http://cropontology.org/ ) is developed for the Integrated Breeding Platform (https://www.integratedbreeding.net/ ) by several centers of The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR): Bioversity, CIMMYT, CIP, ICRISAT, IITA, and IRRI. …”
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Plant genetic resources in India: management and utilization by K. Singh, K. Gupta, V. Tyagi, S. Rajkumar

“…It has linkages with international organizations of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and national crop-based institutes to accomplish its mandated activities. …”
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Identification of Divergent Isolates of Banana Mild Mosaic Virus and Development of a New Diagnostic Primer to Improve Detection by Marwa Hanafi, Rachid Tahzima, Sofiene Ben Kaab, Lucie Tamisier, Nicolas Roux, Sébastien Massart

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Considering the food environment can help to promote the consumption of aquatic foods for healthy diets by Gina Kennedy, Molly B. Ahern, Lora L. Iannotti, Sydney Vie, Lisa Sherburne, Shakuntala H. Thilsted

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Targeting market segment needs with public-good crop breeding investments: A case study with potato and sweetpotato focused on poverty alleviation, nutrition and gender by Sylvester Okoth Ojwang, Julius Juma Okello, David Jakinda Otieno, Janet Mwende Mutiso, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Peter Coaldrake, Thiago Mendes, Maria Andrade, Neeraj Sharma, Wolfgang Gruneberg, Godwill Makunde, Reuben Ssali, Benard Yada, Sarah Mayanja, Vivian Polar, Bonny Oloka, Doreen M. Chelangat, Jacqueline Ashby, Guy Hareau, Hugo Campos

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Characteristics and Global Occurrence of Human Pathogens Harboring Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Crops: A Scoping Review by Ariel Brunn, Zaharat Kadri-Alabi, Arshnee Moodley, Luca Guardabassi, Luca Guardabassi, Phil Taylor, Ana Mateus, Jeff Waage

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Mapping global research on agricultural insurance by Shalika Vyas, Tobias Dalhaus, Martin Kropff, Pramod Aggarwal, Miranda P M Meuwissen

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Strengthening regional resilience : coping with non-traditional security challenges by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has predicted that food productivity in Asia will decrease by as much as 20% due to climate Singapore Ministry of Defence Singapore Armed Forces medics work closely with military personnel from ADMM-Plus members 27 — ISSUE 4/2018 change as the geographical boundaries of agro-ecosystems, as well as species composition and performance, will change. …”
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Guidelines for the reliable use of high throughput sequencing technologies to detect plant pathogens and pests by Massart, Sebastien, Adams, Ian, Al Rwahnih, Maher, Baeyen, Steve, Bilodeau, Guillaume J., Blouin, Arnaud G., Boonham, Neil, Candresse, Thierry, Chandellier, Anne, De Jonghe, Kris, Fox, Adrian, Gaafar, Yahya Z.A., Gentit, Pascal, Haegeman, Annelies, Ho, Wellcome, Hurtado-Gonzales, Oscar, Jonkers, Wilfried, Kreuze, Jan, Kutjnak, Denis, Landa, Blanca B., Liu, Mingxin, Maclot, François, Malapi-Wight, Marta, Maree, Hans J., Martoni, Francesco, Mehle, Natasa, Minafra, Angelantonio, Mollov, Dimitre, Moreira, Adriana G., Nakhla, Mark, Petter, Françoise, Piper, Alexander M., Ponchart, Julien P., Rae, Robbie, Remenant, Benoit, Rivera, Yazmin, Rodoni, Brendan, Botermans, Marleen, Roenhorst, J.W., Rollin, Johan, Saldarelli, Pasquale, Santala, Johanna, Souza-Richards, Rose, Spadaro, Davide, Studholme, David J., Sultmanis, Stefanie, van der Vlugt, René, Tamisier, Lucie, Trontin, Charlotte, Vazquez-Iglesias, Ines, Vicente, Claudia S.L., van de Vossenberg, Bart T.L.H., Westenberg, Marcel, Wetzel, Thierry, Ziebell, Heiko, Lebas, Benedicte S. M.

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Comparative Analysis of Small Farming and Cooperative Production Systems Based on Economic, Social, and Environmental Indicators by Ahmad Hajarian Hajarian, Hamid Barghi

“…Issues in Agriculture 10, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), The World Bank, Washington, DC.- Chakraborty, S. and Zavadskas, E. …”
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Toward a protocol for quantifying the greenhouse gas balance and identifying mitigation options in smallholder farming systems by T S Rosenstock, M C Rufino, K Butterbach-Bahl, E Wollenberg

“…Here we summarize an approach being developed by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Program (CCAFS) and partners. …”
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Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification* by Lydia Olander, Eva Wollenberg, Francesco Tubiello, Martin Herold

“…Acknowledgments The Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the Technical Working Group on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (T-AGG) at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have come together to guide the development of this focus issue and associated activities and papers, given their common desire to improve our understanding of the state of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) quantification and to advance ideas for building data and methods that will help mitigation policy and programs move forward around the world. …”
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Knowledge networks to support youth engagement in sustainable food systems by Mariaelena Huambachano, Indika Arulingam, Evan Bowness, Anna Korzenszky, Catherine Mungai, Catherine Mungai, Paola Termine, Hannah Wittman

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