Publications
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Tools for pest and disease management by stakeholders: a case study on Plantwise
(2021)
This chapter presents Plantwise as an innovative process for pest management in small holder crop production systems. The tools and applications developed under Plantwise constitute innovations that have potential to ...
Developments in the use of hermetic bags for grain storage
(2020)
Smallholder farmers’ interest in hermetic bags has been driven by the need to reduce grain storage losses due to insect pests and challenges (inefficacy) of current storage methods. Hermetic bags commercially available for ...
Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems
(2019)
One of the most common methods to evaluate environmental footprints of farming systems is life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCA itself is suitable for and adopted by a wide range of industries far beyond agriculture, ...
Advances in identifying GM plants: toward the routine detection of 'hidden' and 'new' GMOs
(2021)
In 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union recalled that organisms with genomes modified by artifactual techniques should be considered GMOs under European regulations. GMOs derived from cultures of cells isolated ...
The use of Pseudomonas spp. as bacterial biocontrol agents to control plant diseases
(2021)
Most Pseudomonas biocontrol strains are associated with the rhizosphere of plants, where they control soil pathogens by antibiosis or competition, and leaf pathogens via induced systemic resistance. Genome mining and the ...