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Welcome to the AgShare.Today Resource Centre

The AgShare.Today Resource Centre brings together a collection of resources related to agriculture. These include open access scientific journals and best practice guides that can be used for background reading and to support research initiatives. The AgShare Featured Resource showcases a new document each month that the AgShare team recommends to all members.

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Simple and successful: new seed priming techniques boost farmers’ yields

This guide recommends what policy makers can do to spread the action.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (545 KB)

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Speeding dramatic change in rice fallows: low-input pulses where nothing grew before

This policy brief outlines how decision makers can bring about dramatic change by encouraging the planting of pulse crops on fallow lands.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (885 KB)

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Fighting storage insect pests in sub-Saharan Africa

This policy brief explains how diatomaceous earths offer a safer alternative to chemical pesticides and how to promote their use.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (540 KB)

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Credit for success: seed yam production systems

This brief highlights what policy action is needed to boost clean seed yam production.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (686 KB)

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Village forecasting of armyworm outbreak saves crops

This brief explains how policy makers can support and facilitate training on community-based armyworm forecasting, on a large enough scale to get the approach adopted widely.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (687 KB)

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Improving farmers’ access to quality seed

This policy brief provides advice to governments on how to work in partnership with businesses to improve seed systems and modify them to include the needs of poor people.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (536 KB)

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Forests, flows and water harvesting: replacing myths in water management

Better ways of measuring water, better models and powerful new geographic information systems (GIS) have exposed some fatal flaws in ‘conventional wisdom’.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (1,089 KB)

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Future health: sustainable management of Africa’s medicinal plants

This policy brief gives advice on how to support the groups involved and take advantage of new networks and the new management approaches available.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (901 KB)

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Net benefits: the power of managing small fisheries

This brief explains co-management and provides arguments and information that can be used to persuade groups to start co-managing fisheries.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 2, File type: PDF (905 KB)

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Local knowledge plus global science: a winning combination

This research, looking at livestock fodder, describes how the hard-earned knowledge of farmers can be blended with global science to provide some powerful solutions.

Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (2,9191 KB)

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