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The contestations of diversity, culture and commercialization: why tissue culture technology alone cannot solve the banana Xanthomonas wilt problem in central Uganda
Several initiatives by the Government of Uganda, Research Institutes and CGIAR centers have promoted the use of tissue culture (TC) banana technology...
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Governing Agricultural Data: Challenges and Recommendations
The biomedical domain has shown that in silico analyses over vast data pools enhances the speed and scale of scientific innovation. This can hold...
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“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding...
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Cultivating Responsible Plant Breeding Strategies: Conceptual and Normative Commitments in Data-Intensive Agriculture
This chapter argues for the importance of considering conceptual and normative commitments when addressing questions of responsible practice in...
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Data Management in Multi-disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding Programs
Quality phenotype and genotype data are important for the success of a breeding program. Like most programs, African breeding programs generate large...
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Plant Science Data Integration, from Building Community Standards to Defining a Consistent Data Lifecycle
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles for plant research build upon experience from other life science domains such as...
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Genebanking plant genetic resources in the postgenomic era
Genebanking, the process of preserving genetic resources, is a central practice in the modern management of crop genetics, especially for the species...
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Introduction: Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage
This chapter provides a framing for this volume by reviewing the significance and the organisational, technical and social opportunities and...
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Baladi Seeds in the oPt: Populations as Objects of Preservation and Units of Analysis
This essay argues that shortcomings in our approaches to global agriculture and its data infrastructures are attributable in part to a constricted...
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Gender and equity considerations in AMR research: a systematic sco** review
Research on gender and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) beyond women’s biological susceptibility is limited. A gender and equity lens in AMR research...
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Political economy challenges for climate smart agriculture in Africa
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has gained prominence in global agriculture and climate agendas for its perceived “triple win” contributions to food...
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Data, Duplication, and Decentralisation: Gene Bank Management in the 1980s and 1990s
In the 1970s, the number of accessions held in national and international seed and gene banks increased steadily. This growth, initially a source of...
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The Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Agricultural Data: Supporting a Global Community of Practice
Efforts to address equity and inclusion in agricultural data infrastructures face numerous challenges. People and networks are widely distributed...
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Blended finance for agriculture: exploring the constraints and possibilities of combining fi nancial instruments for sustainable transitions
Transitioning to sustainable agricultural systems is imperative to meet the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving more sustainable...
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Joined Up Thinking on How AI Can Contribute to the SDGs
This piece provides two frameworks for thinking about the relationship between AI and the global goals. It argues that while AI in all its forms is...
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Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols
Crop genetic resources constitute a ‘new’ global commons, characterized by multiple layers of activities of farmers, genebanks, public and private...
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Revisiting the adequacy of the economic policy narrative underpinning the Green Revolution
The Green Revolution still exerts an important influence on agricultural policy as a technology-centred development strategy. A main policy narrative...
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Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development
There is a strong impetus in international agricultural development to close ‘gender gaps’ in agricultural productivity. The goal of empowering women...
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Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy
The Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy at the heart of the European Union’s Green Deal set out to create a “just transition” towards a sustainable food...
