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Steven Sonka, Hyeonsuh Lee and Sonali Shah
Excessively high levels of post-harvest loss often are a feature of agricultural systems dominated by small-holder farmers. However, this situation is something of a paradox, as technologies exist that have been shown in field demonstrations to substanti...
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Asha Ally Hatibu, Essegbemon Akpo, Gerald Alex Lukurugu, Joseph Nzunda, Patrick Okori and Chris O. Ojiewo
Making quality seed of improved legume varieties sustainably available and accessible to farmers in a timely manner and at affordable price is a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Overcoming this challenge requires collective and long-term acti...
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Maurice Kesonga Nsele, Jules Nkulu Mwine Fyama, Kevin Maréchal and Thomas Dogot
A package of innovations was disseminated in urban agriculture and created real opportunities for employment, income, and the supply of vegetables of high nutritional quality. However, ten years later, farmers are working for a daily income of less than ...
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Christian Grovermann, K. B. Umesh, Sylvain Quiédeville, B. Ganesh Kumar, Srinivasaiah S. and Simon Moakes
In spite of the considerable potential contribution of neglected and underutilised crops to climate resilience, food security and nutrition; widespread adoption of these crops remains a challenge. Uptake is inhibited by poor economic performance due to l...
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Aparna Moitra,Archna Kumar,Aaditeshwar Seth
Pág. 18 pgs.
We define community mobilization as offline activities typically required in ICTD initiatives to train users and drive adoption for the sustained use of ICTs within the community. Community mobilization forms an important but under-discussed component of...
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Denys Yemshanov, Daniel W. McKenney, Emily Hope and Tony Lempriere
Burning forest biomass from renewable sources has been suggested as a viable strategy to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy generation sector. Energy facilities can, in principle, be retrofitted to produce a portion of their energy ...
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Lara Houston,Steven J. Jackson
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ICTD is profoundly interested in the ?next billion? users and how information infrastructures might provide opportunities for enhancing their life chances. In this article we ask how the concept of care might be generatively extended to the ?lives? of th...
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Edward Beatty
Pág. pp. 45 - 65
Using a new database of all patents issues in Mexico between 1870 and 1911, this paper explores the impact of the vast wave of technology imports into Mexico during the nineteenth century period of globalization. Historians have established that massive ...
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