Estrada-Carmona, N.; Raneri, J.E.; Alvarez, S.; Timler, C.; Abe Chatterjee, S.; Ditzler, L.; Kennedy, G.; Remans, R.; Brouwer, I.; Borgonjen-van den Berg, K.; Talsma, E.F.; Groot, J.C.J. (2019) A model-based exploration of farm-household livelihood and nutrition indicators to guide nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Food Security ISSN: 1876-4517

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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00985-0

Tourne, D.C.M.; Ballester, M.V.R.; James, P.M.A.; Martorano, L.G.; Guedes, M.C.; Thomas, E. (2019) Strategies to optimize modelling habitat suitability of Bertholletia excelsa in the Pan-Amazonia. Ecology and Evolution (first online) ISSN: 2045-7758

Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105841

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5726

Abstract

Amazon‐nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a hyperdominant and protected tree species, playing a keystone role in nutrient cycling and ecosystem service provision in Amazonia. Our main goal was to develop a robust habitat suitability model of Amazon‐nut and to identify the most important predictor variables to support conservation and tree planting decisions.

Dias Nunes, P.L.; Remans, R.; Villani, C.; Ale, N.; Mannella, A.; Restrepo, J.L.; Castro Salazar, R. (2019) Introducing the Agrobiodiversity Index. In: Bioversity International (2019) Agrobiodiversity Index Report 2019: risk and resilience. Rome (Italy): Bioversity International. p. 7-12. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105860

Forest pattern, not just amount, influences dietary quality in five African countries

Laura VangRasmussen^aMatthew E.Fagan^bAmyIckowitz^cSylvia L.R.Wood^dGinaKennedy^eBronwenPowell^cfFrédéricBaudron^gSarahGergel^aSuhyunJung^hErica A.H.SmithwickⁱTerrySunderland^acStephenWood^jkJeanine M.Rhemtulla^a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100331

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Global Sustainability (2019) 2

The paradox of productivity: agricultural productivity promotes food system inefficiency

Benton T Bailey R

DOI: 10.1017/sus.2019.3

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Sustainability Science, November 2019, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp 1463–1465|

Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people

Shunsuke Managi et al.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-019-00732-6?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_11625_14_6

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Sustainability Science, November 2019, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp 1549–1564

Strengthening the science–policy–industry interface for progressing toward sustainability: a systems thinking view

Marialuisa Savianoet al.

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Sustainability Science, November 2019, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp 1657–1672

Synergy potential between climate change mitigation and forest conservation policies in the Indonesian forest sector: implications for achieving multiple sustainable development objectives

Ken’ichi Matsumoto et al.

Part of the following topical collections:

1. Climate Change Mitigation, Adaption, and Resilience

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0650-6?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_11625_14_6

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Nature volume 575, pages109–118(2019)Cite this article

Review Article

Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

Julia Bailey-Serres, et al.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1679-0?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20191107&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20191107&sap-outbound-id=1442397F99E844ACAD805223C31442519BEA6906&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_SKN6563_0000016731_41586-Nature-20191107-EAlert&utm_content=EN_internal_36802_20191107&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08

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Nature volume 575, pages98–108(2019)Cite this article

Perspective

Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

1. Nyström, et al.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1712-3?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20191107&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20191107&sap-outbound-id=1442397F99E844ACAD805223C31442519BEA6906&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_SKN6563_0000016731_41586-Nature-20191107-EAlert&utm_content=EN_internal_36802_20191107&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08

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Nature volume 575, pages137–146(2019)Cite this article

Perspective

Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering

Cara Tannenbaum, et al.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1657-6?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20191107&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20191107&sap-outbound-id=1442397F99E844ACAD805223C31442519BEA6906&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_SKN6563_0000016731_41586-Nature-20191107-EAlert&utm_content=EN_internal_36802_20191107&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08

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Science  08 Nov 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6466, eaax0025

 REVIEW

Revolutions in agriculture chart a course for targeted breeding of old and new crops

1. Yuval Eshed¹,*, Zachary B. Lippman²,³,*

DOI: 10.1126/science.aax0025

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Journal of rural Studies, Volume 72, December 2019, Pages 125-135

Women’s active participation and gender homogeneity: Evidence from the South Indian dairy cooperative sector

CarlaDohmwirthMarkusHanisch

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.005Get rights and content

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PERSPECTIVEPLANT BIOLOGY

A layered defense against plant pathogens

Susannah G. Tringe

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/568?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-10-31&et_rid=34812267&et_cid=3053674

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Science  01 Nov 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6465, pp. 570-571

PERSPECTIVEEVOLUTION

Mapping footprints of past genetic exchange

Loren H. Rieseberg

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/570?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-10-31&et_rid=34812267&et_cid=3053674

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Agronomy for Sustainable Development, October 2019, 39:47

Agroforestry delivers a win-win solution for ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa. A meta-analysis

Shem Kuyah et al.

Meta-analysis

 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-019-0589-8?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_13593_39_5

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World Development  Volume 125, January 2020

Special Issue: Forests as Pathways to Prosperity

Guest Editors: Daniel Miller and Reem Hajjar

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/world-development/vol/125/suppl/C

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020, 104669

Gender differences in the relationship between land ownership and managerial rights: Implications for intrahousehold farm labor allocation

MunsuKangBenjaminSchwabJisangYu

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104669Get rights and content

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020

Managing risk, changing aspirations and household dynamics: Implications for wellbeing and adaptation in semi-arid Africa and India

NityaRao^aChandniSingh^bDivyaSolomon^cLauraCamfield^aRahinaSidiki^dMargaretAngula^ePrathignaPoonacha^bAmadouSidibé^fElaine T.Lawson^g

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104667

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020

To diversify or not to diversify, that is the question. Pursuing agricultural development for smallholder farmers in marginal areas of Ghana

Mauricio R.Bellon^aBekele HundieKotu^bCarloAzzarri^cFrancescoCaracciolo^d

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104682

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020

Crop diversity, household welfare and consumption smoothing under risk: Evidence from rural Uganda

WondimagegnTesfayeNyashaTirivayi

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104686Get rights and content

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020

The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions

MorganScoville-Simonds^abHameedJamali^cdMarcHufty^b

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104683

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World Development Volume 125, January 2020

The impact of domestic and foreign R&D on agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Morakinyo O.Adetutu^aVictorAjayi^b

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104690Get rights and content

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Biological Conservation : Volume 238

Tradeoffs and tools for data quality, privacy, transparency, and trust in citizen science

ChristineAnhalt-Depies^aJennifer L.Stenglein^bBenjaminZuckerberg^aPhilip A.Townsend^aAdena R.Rissman^a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108195

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Biological Conservation : Volume 238

A multifunctional approach for achieving simultaneous biodiversity conservation and farmer livelihood in coffee agroecosystems

Aaron L.Iverson^aDavid J.Gonthier^b1DamiePak^a2Katherine K.Ennis^cRobyn J.Burnham^aIvettePerfecto^bMariangieRamos Rodriguez^dJohn H.Vandermeer^a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.07.024

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New Scientist

The dream of food self-sufficiency

JamesWong

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(19)32014-7

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

Stephanie Roe et al

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0591-9

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Science of The Total Environment, Volume 649, 1 February 2019, Pages 120-127

Soil properties and agronomic factors affecting cadmium concentrations in cacao beans: A nationwide survey in Ecuador

DavidArgüello^abEduardoChavez^bFlorianLauryssen^aRuthVanderschueren^aErikSmolders^aDanielaMontalvo^a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.292

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Journal of Rural Studies, Volume 71, October 2019, Pages 46-61

The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016718314608?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email

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Global Environmental Change, Volume 58, September 2019, 101956

The role of global dietary transitions for safeguarding biodiversity

Roslyn C.Henry^aPeterAlexander^abSamRabin^cPeterAnthoni^cMark D.A.Rounsevell^acAlmutArneth^c

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101956

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Global Environmental Change, Volume 58, September 2019, 101978

The global cropland footprint of Denmark’s food supply 2000–2013

Albert KwameOsei-Owusu^aThomasKastner^bHenride Ruiter^cMarianneThomsen^aDarioCaro^a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101978

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Plant Cell Reports, November 2019, Volume 38, Issue 11, pp 1361–1363

Biotechnology of the sweetpotato: ensuring global food and nutrition security in the face of climate change

Sang-Soo Kwak

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00299-019-02468-0?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_299_38_11

EDITORIAL

16 OCTOBER 2019

Counting the hidden $12-trillion cost of a broken food system

The world’s food system costs trillions in poor health and ecological damage. On World Food Day, governments and researchers must commit to more-regular audits of these unseen expenses.

There’s an unfolding tragedy at the heart of the world’s food system and its cause lies mainly at the door of governments, food manufacturers and agribusinesses.

The situation is urgent. One-third of all food goes to waste, and yet governments and other players in the food system are unable to prevent 820 million people from regularly going hungry. The food industry, especially, bears responsibility for the fact that 680 million people are obese, but it is largely governments and their citizens who have to pick up the costs of treatment.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03117-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20191017&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20191017&sap-outbound-id=0D550FC3F07F2E020C0045319AD35E51954C173A&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_SKN6563_0000016052_41586-Nature-20191017-EAlert&utm_content=EN_internal_35281_20191017&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08

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Nature

 WORLD VIEW 

16 OCTOBER 2019

Data on child deaths are a call for justice

To save young lives, governments must support families, respect women and tackle inequality, says Michelle Bachelet.

The chances of newborns surviving to adulthood have never been greater: in the past 20 years, rates of childhood death have fallen by more than half. Nearly all 193 United Nations member states have made tremendous progress. But within each country, disparities condemn many children to premature death.

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Science  18 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6463, pp. 315
DOI: 10.1126/science.aay7988

LETTERS

Forest restoration: Overlooked constraints

1. Eike Luedeling1, et al.

In their Report “The global tree restoration potential” (5 July, p. 76), J.-F. Bastin et al. use machine learning to derive the carbon storage potential of global tree restoration, which they identify as the most effective climate change mitigation option. However, the study likely overestimates the actual potential by identifying opportunities for increasing canopy cover in environments with obvious environmental or socioeconomic constraints.

In high-latitude regions of Russia, Scandinavia, and North America, permafrost and short growing seasons (1) impair tree growth. In large parts of Australia and other arid and hyperarid regions, salinity, sodicity, hardpans, and moisture limitations prevent tree establishment (2, 3). In African grasslands, infertile soils, grazing animals, water constraints, and wildfires maintain patchy shrub–grass environments (4). In areas with severely degraded soils and biodiversity loss in the Americas and in Asia (5, 6), prospects of restoring pre-degradation canopy cover are limited. In grazing lands and production forests, abandoning current uses implies staggering absolute opportunity costs. Finally, Bastin et al. excluded areas classified as urban, but the data set they used (7) fails to recognize some major urban centers and many towns and villages in rural areas (7); more than 2.5 billion people live in areas that Bastin et al. considered eligible for restoration (8), including entire cities, such as Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Science  18 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6463, pp. 316-317
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz0705

LETTERS

Forest restoration: Expanding agriculture

In their Report “The global tree restoration potential” (5 July, p. 76), J.-F. Bastin et al. determine the available potential forest restoration area by excluding areas with existing trees, urban settlement, and cropland. However, they overestimate the potential area because they do not account for projected agricultural land expansion or current use of pasture land.

There is evidence from satellite imagery that most of global agricultural land expansion in the previous three decades happened and is still happening on tropical forest land, especially in Brazil and Southeast Asia (1–3). Given that this trend is likely to continue, especially in the highly productive areas in Central and South America, agricultural land expansion must be taken into

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Science  18 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6463, pp. 317
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz2148

 LETTERS

Forest restoration: Transformative trees—Response

Luedeling and colleagues argue that we have overestimated the restoration capacity in several regions of the world. Our model predicts the expected optimal tree cover from a combination of 10 environmental variables that were selected through a variable selection procedure to avoid overfitting issues. As detailed in table S1 of our supplementary material, these 10 variables include mean annual temperature, temperature of the wettest quarter, annual precipitation, precipitation seasonality, precipitation of the driest quarter, elevation, hillshade, soil organic carbon, sand content, and depth to bedrock. These ecological variables cover average and seasonal variation in climate and variation in topographic and edaphic conditions. As such, we have done everything that is possible to represent all of the conditions raised by Luedeling and colleagues.

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Science  18 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6463, pp. 310-312
DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0339

 POLICY FORUMSYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

Technological challenges and milestones for writing genomes

1. Nili Ostrov, et al.

Engineering biology with recombinant DNA, broadly called synthetic biology, has progressed tremendously in the last decade, owing to continued industrialization of DNA synthesis, discovery and development of molecular tools and organisms, and increasingly sophisticated modeling and analytic tools. However, we have yet to understand the full potential of engineering biology because of our inability to write and test whole genomes, which we call synthetic genomics. Substantial improvements are needed to reduce the cost and increase the speed and reliability of genetic tools. Here, we identify emerging technologies and improvements to existing methods that

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Science  18 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6463, pp. 308-309
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz4520

 PERSPECTIVEECOLOGY

Rapid reorganization of global biodiversity

1. Britas Klemens Eriksson1, 
2. Helmut Hillebrand2,3

The Pacific oyster is native to Pacific Asia but has spread through accidental introductions across the world. Today, it is found on shores in Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and North America.

Twenty-five years of research on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function have revealed that biodiversity drives fundamental ecosystem processes and regulates their temporal and spatial stability (1, 2). Despite clear signs that human efforts have failed to halt global biodiversity loss (3, 4), it has been difficult to identify corresponding signs of global-loss trends in the context of local ecosystems (5–9). On page 339 of this issue, Blowes et al. (10) report their analysis of local biodiversity changes using a large dataset of >50,000 biodiversity time series from 239 studies.

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Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 59, No. 4

Farming and Fishing ‐ Diverse Rural Livelihoods

Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change in Context: Toward a Political Economy of Relevance

Matthew Houser

Ryan Gunderson

Diana Stuart

https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12268

Sociologists commonly hypothesise that experiencing the impacts of climate change will lead actors, including farmers, to desire to address climate change. It is increasingly clear that farmers can detect the regional biophysical expressions and impacts of climate change. However, this has not led farmers to desire to take action on climate change. This begs the question: how then are farmers interpreting these experiences? We argue that political‐economic context, the structural conditions of capitalist production, contributes to how farmers perceive and understand the impacts of climate change. We draw from our novel political economy of relevance theoretical framework and apply this framework to a sample of over 100 qualitative interviews with Iowa and Indiana row‐crop farmers. We focus on their experiences with heavy rain events, a key impact of climate change in the Midwest. Our findings suggest that farmers become aware of, interpret and respond to heavy rain events within the context of capitalist production. This leads most farmers to see heavy rain events as barriers to achieving capitalist goals, rather than as signals of the reconsider climate scepticism or the need to mitigate contributions to climate change.

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The Lancet Planetary Health VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10, PE429-E438, OCTOBER 01, 2019

The global effect of extreme weather events on nutrient supply: a superposed epoch analysis

Caro S Park, et al.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30193-7

Background

To date, the effects of extreme weather events on nutrient supply within the population have not been quantified. In this study, we investigated micronutrient, macronutrient, and fibre supply changes during 175 extreme weather events within 87 countries in the year that a major extreme weather event occurred, with a targeted focus on low-income settings.

Methods

We collected data from the International Disasters Database and the Global Expanded Nutrient Supply model for the period 1961–2010, and applied superposed epoch analysis to calculate the percentage change in nutrient supply during the year of an extreme weather event relative to its historical context. We composited globally and by subgroup (EU, landlocked developing countries, least developed countries, low-income food deficit countries, and net food-importing developing countries). Lastly, we reported nutrient supply changes in terms of recommended dietary allowance for children aged 1–3 years.

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Diversity and distribution

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH

 Open Access

The biodiversity benefit of native forests and mixed‐species plantations over monoculture plantations

Xiaoyang Wang et al.

https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12972

Abstract

Aim

China’s Grain for Green Program (GFGP) is the largest reforestation programme in the world and has been operating since 1999. The GFGP has promoted the establishment of tree plantations over the restoration of diverse native forests. In a previous study, we showed that native forests support a higher species richness and abundance of birds and bees than do GFGP plantations and that mixed‐species GFGP plantations support a higher level of bird (but not bee) diversity than do any individual GFGP monocultures (although still below that of native forests). Here, we use metabarcoding of arthropod diversity to test the generality of these results.

Evidence for sharp increase in the economic damages of extreme natural disasters

Matteo Coronese, Francesco Lamperti, Klaus Keller, Francesca Chiaromonte, and Andrea Roventini PNAS first published October 7, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907826116

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/01/1907826116

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Biodiversity and Conservation, November 2019, Volume 28, Issue 13, pp 3445–3464|

Competing discourses of the forest shape forest owners’ ideas about nature and biodiversity conservation

Tuomo Takala., Teppo Hujala, Minna Tanskanen, Jukka Tikkanen

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01831-7

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South African Journal of Botany, Volume 126, November 2019, Pages 107-114

Review

Boosting super-domestication: from crop domestication to genome editing

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2019.06.018Get rights and content

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Euphytica, October 2019, 215:175

Evaluation of banana germplasm and genetic analysis of an F1 population for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense race 1

Ivan Kabiita Arinaitwe et al.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10681-019-2493-3?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_10681_215_10

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Science 11 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6462, pp. 193

LETTERS

Grieving environmental scientists need support

Timothy A. C. Gordon1 et al.

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz2422

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Nature Sustainability volume 2, pages903–904 (2019) |

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Satellites and crop interventions

Jadunandan Dash

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0402-3?utm_source=natsustain_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_41893_2_10&utm_content=20191010&WT.ec_id=NATSUSTAIN-201910&sap-outbound-id=1930C41543DE7082B4125535E67077C6B5BC61D4&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_LPN6554_0000015832_41893-NatureSustainabilityEAlert10102019&utm_content=EN_internal_34798_20191010&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08

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Nature Sustainability volume 2, pages931–934 (2019) | Download Citation

The impact of agricultural interventions can be doubled by using satellite data

Meha Jain, et al.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0396-x?utm_source=natsustain_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_41893_2_10&utm_content=20191010&WT.ec_id=NATSUSTAIN-201910&sap-outbound-id=1930C41543DE7082B4125535E67077C6B5BC61D4&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_LPN6554_0000015832_41893-NatureSustainabilityEAlert10102019&utm_content=EN_internal_34798_20191010&mkt-key=005056B0331B1EE782E3E186D2CF1D08