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Shoma Khatun’s world came crashing down around her when her father died from a stroke three years ago.
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Nestan Vibliani is an economist by trade. By day, the 43-year-old female farmer works at the local municipality in the south-central Georgian town of Tsalka, and by night she cares for her four children and husband.
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The 29-year-old Azeez is bucking the trend which sees youth leaving rural areas. He represents a fraction of the smallholder farmers who are youths.
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Practical involvement of women in participatory variety selection, based on the specific cassava work they do, contributes to empowerment, access to new cassava varieties and learning as a citizen scientist.
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Two newly developed tools help breeders to respond to the needs, preferences and constraints of all end-users.
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A crucial element in plant breeding is to ensure that farmers and others, such as processors and consumers, will adopt and make use of new, improved varieties.
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The need to pay more attention to gender in breeding becomes even more apparent when one looks at past breeding efforts in any detail.
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The complexities of production systems become more apparent when examining the ways in which different people express their preferences for certain crop or animal traits.
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If gender is to be integrated in breeders’ product profiles, researchers need to develop a better understanding of trait preferences.
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From cassava to gari: mapping of quality characteristics and end-user preferences of food products in Cameroon and Nigeria2021Ndjouenkeu, R., Ngoualem Kegah, F., Teeken, B., Okoye, B., Madu, T., Olaosebikan, O. D., Chijioke, U., Bello, A., Osunbade, A. O., Owoade, D., Takam-Tchuente, N. H., Biaton Njeufa, E., Nguiadem Chomdom, I., L, Forsythe, L., Maziya-Dixon, B., Fliedel, G.
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Review of varietal change in roots, tubers and bananas: consumer preferences and other drivers of adoption and implications for breeding2020Thiele, G., Dufour, D., Vernier, P., Mwanga, R.O., Parker, M., Schulte Geldermann, E., Teeken, B., Wossen, T., Gotor, E., Kikulwe, E., Tufan, H., Sinelle, S., Kouakou, A.M., Friedmann, M., Polar, V. & Hershey, C.
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Development of a food product profile for boiled and steamed sweetpotato in Uganda for effective breeding2020Mwanga, R.O.M, Mayanja, S; Swanckaert, J; Nakitto, M; zum Felde, T ; Grüneberg, W; Moyo, M; Banda, L; Tinyiro, S; Kisakye, S; Anena, B; Bouniol, A; Magala, D; Yada, B; Carey, B; Andrade, M; Johanningsmeier, S; Forsythe, L; Fliedel, G and Muzhingi T.
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Gender-based constraints affecting biofortified cassava production, processing and marketing among men and women adopters in Oyo and Benue States, Nigeria2019Olaosebikan, O., Abdulrazaq, B., Owoade, D., Ogunade, A., Aina, O., Ilona, P., Muheebwa, A., Teeken, B., Iluebbey, P., Kulakow, P., Bakare, M. & Parkes, E.
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