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Title: Gender preferred dual purpose crops with laboratory evidence
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: ReportStatus: Open accessWorking document on gender preference on crops along with evidence from laboratories for food-feed traits. -
Title: Gender Resource Management The case of the agro-pastoral community, Im Mial in Northern Syria
Author(s)Date: 2000-05-01Type: ThesisStatus: Open accessThe focal point of this thesis is women’s access to and control over resources. I investigate whether women’s social identity, influence their resource access. Differences among women, inter- as well as intra-household, ... -
Title: Gender roles and constraints in cowpea and groundnut cropping: a case from Niger
Author(s)Date: 2016-02-22Type: PosterStatus: Open accessA poster presented in Pan-African Grain Legume & World Cowpea Conference 27 February to 4 March 2016 at Zambia. -
Title: Gender roles and preferences in animal feeding technologies: a case from Mali
Author(s)Date: 2016-03-30Type: PosterStatus: Open accessPoster on Gender roles and preferences in animal feeding technologies: A case from Mali -
Title: Gender, intensification, extension and the “missing link” in Ntcheu District of Malawi
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-31Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Timeless limited accessSince the inception of extension services in the mid-1940s in Malawi the benefits associated with extension service delivery are two fold; providing agricultural intensification knowledge through innovation brokering as ... -
Title: Gender, Livestock, and Livelihoods in Khreisha Villages of Al-Karak
Author(s)Date: 2014-12-31Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessThe presentation in collaboration with Nadira Al Jawhari (NCARE) outlines research that takes a systems approach to examine the interplay of livestock production (an activity in which women contribute the majority of the ... -
Title: Gender, Tenurial niches in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation
Author(s)Date: 2016-08-19Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessThe presentation addresses the issue of understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation, presented by ... -
Title: Gender-disaggregated database for Aral Sea action site
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-14Type: DatasetStatus: Limited accessAgricultural producers in the dryland systems of Central Asia deal with environmental and market risks. To handle those risks, they try to optimize the allocation of their natural, physical, financial, social, and human ... -
Title: A gendered analysis of community profiles of target sites for small ruminant value chain interventions in Ethiopia
Author(s)Date: 2016-10-16Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessCommunity profiling was conducted to provide an in-depth gendered understanding of the characteristics of the small ruminant value chain intervention sites in Ethiopia. Gender analysis tools and participatory rural ... -
Title: Gendered analysis of traits, preferences and frameworks for gender responsive variety development
Author(s)Date: 2019-01-02Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessActivity FP4-1.9 was designed with the purpose of understanding the trait preferences of male and female farmers and improve the integration of gender component in the breeding program so that the design and breeding plan ... -
Title: Gendered and systemic constraints and opportunities to fodder production systems in Afghanistan
Author(s)Date: 2017-12-31Type: Internal ReportStatus: Limited accessLivestock plays an important role in the livelihoods of many farmers in Baghlan province. A first reason for limited forage production and forage gap is that fodder crops compete with food crops. In addition, farmers do ... -
Title: Gendered technology adoption and household food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-31Type: Book ChapterStatus: Open accessHunger and malnutrition are scientific and moral problems that lie at the root of most other global development challenges, since malnutrition effectively blocks development and achievement across generations (Kavishe ... -
Title: Gene Flow as a Source of Adaptation of Durum Wheat to Changing Conditions Including Climate Change: Double Gradient Selection Technique
Author(s)Date: 2016-10-12Type: Book ChapterStatus: Limited accessFluctuating environments are recurring scenarios in dryland agriculture with detri- mental effects to crop production such as durum wheat crop that could lead to losses in yield. The dryland Mediterranean type of environment ... -
Title: Gene introgression in grain legumes
Author(s)Date: 2011-12-29Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessThe wild species of grain legumes are valuable gene pools, particularly for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. These have largely remained under-utilized due to crossability barriers, but there are some examples ... -
Title: Genes Expressed Differentially in Hessian Fly Larvae Feeding in Resistant and Susceptible Plants
Author(s)Date: 2016-08-09Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessThe Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor, is a destructive pest of wheat worldwide and mainly controlled by deploying resistant cultivars. In this study, we investigated the genes that were expressed differentially between ... -
Title: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Chickpea
Author(s)Date: 2011-09-23Type: Book ChapterStatus: Timeless limited accessIt has now been predicted that future crops and agriculture systems have to face variable climates and these changes require adjustment of crops to feed the world growing population. For sustainable global food and feed ... -
Title: Genetic admixture of NorthAfrican ovine breeds as revealed by microsatellite loci
Author(s)Date: 2014-07-26Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessNorthAfrican countries are endowed with a wealth of sheep resources adapted to a wide range of environments and production systems. In this study, genetic diversity was estimated in seven sheep breeds, including two Algerian ... -
Title: Genetic analyses of malting quality characters in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Author(s)Date: 2015-04-14Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Limited accessThe present study was undertaken to delineate the nature of gene effects, epistasis type and estimation of genetic parameters in barley. Mean hectolitre weight, grain protein content and malt friability were exhibited as ... -
Title: Genetic dissection of climate change responsive traits in global durum wheat (Triticum turgidum sp. Durum) collection exposed to a North-South heat gradient
Author(s)Date: 2020-09-18Type: ThesisStatus: Timeless limited accessGenetic dissection of climate change responsive traits in global durum wheat (Triticum turgidum sp. Durum) collection exposed to a North-South heat gradient -
Title: Genetic diversity among cultivated and wild lentils for iron, zinc, copper, calcium and magnesium concentrations
Author(s)Date: 2016-10-10Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessInformation on the seed mineral concentration of cultivated and wild lentils is limited. The objective of this study was to determine the concentrations of iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), calcium (Ca), copper (Cu), and ...