Understanding pathogen, livestock, environment interactions involving bluetongue virus: The PALE-Blu project
European Union
Late blight resistant potato for Africa. Project profile.
CIP is working in East Africa to breed varieties of potatoes that combine three forms of resistance to late blight -- the disease that can exact costly tolls on smallholding farmers.
Identifying what constitutes complexity perception of decision points during indoor route guidance
To be able to design indoor wayfinding systems that adhere better to the needs of the users, user perception on complexity needs to be examined and linked to user characteristics and decision point characteristics. To identify how these characteristics influence perception, an online survey is executed in which participants had to indicate how comp...
Provoking a conversation around students’ and supervisors’ expectations regarding workplace learning
Construct: This study presents a tool that can facilitate a conversation about students' and supervisors' expectations concerning responsibilities during workplace learning. Background: It is often unclear who is responsible for facilitating learning opportunities in the workplace. In order to increase learning opportunities, it is important that e...
A review on health and environmental aspects of current manure management practices in pig production systems in Uganda
One health policy context of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya: One Health Units for Humans, Environment, Animals and Liveliho...
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation / Italian Agency for Development and Cooperation / European Union / United States Agency for International Development
Variance component estimations and mega‐environments for sweetpotato breeding in West Africa.
The current study was aimed at identifying mega‐environments in Ghana and evaluating adaptability of superior sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] genotypes from a targeted breeding effort. Three sets of genotypes were evaluated in multi‐environment trials (MET). Twelve sweetpotato varieties were evaluated across nine environments representing t...
A Planetary Health Perspective on Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Human activities change the structure and function of the environment with cascading impacts on human health, a concept known as “planetary health.” Agroforestry—the management of trees with crops and livestock—alters microclimates, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biodiversity. Besides the nutritional benefits of increased fruit consumption, howeve...
Enabling locally relevant planning for sustainable livestock sector development: The CLEANED approach
Department for International Development, United Kingdom
Molecular detection and typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negati...
Indian Council of Agricultural Research / Peer Review
