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    • chirps: API Client for the CHIRPS Precipitation Data in R 

      de Sousa, Kaue; Sparks, Adam H.; Ashmall, William; van Etten, Jacob; Solberg, Svein Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The chirps package provides functionalities for reproducible analysis in R (R Core Team, 2020) using the CHIRPS (Funk et al., 2015) data. CHIRPS is daily precipitation data set developed by the Climate Hazards Group (Funk ...

    • Climate suitability predictions for the cultivation of macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia) in Malawi using climate change scenarios 

      Zuza, Emmanuel Junior; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Bhagwat, Shonil A.; de Sousa, Kaue; Emmott, Andrew; Rawes, William; Araya, Yoseph Negusse (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Climate change is altering suitable areas of crop species worldwide, with cascading effects on people reliant upon those crop species as food sources and for income generation. Macadamia is one of Malawi’s most important ...

    • Conservation Gaps in Traditional Vegetables Native to Europe and Fennoscandia 

      de Sousa, Kaue; Solberg, Svein Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Vegetables are rich in vitamins and other micronutrients and are important crops for healthy diets and diversification of the food system, and many traditional (also termed underutilized or indigenous) species may play a ...

    • Consumer Preference Testing of Boiled Sweetpotato Using Crowdsourced Citizen Science in Ghana and Uganda 

      Moyo, Mukani; Ssali, Reuben; Namanda, Sam; Nakitto, Mariam; Dery, Eric K.; Akansake, Daniel; Adjebeng-Danquah, Joseph; van Etten, Jacob; de Sousa, Kaue; Lindqvist-Kreuze, Hannele; Carey, Edward; Muzhingi, Tawanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Crowdsourced citizen science is an emerging approach in plant sciences. The triadic comparison of technologies (tricot) approach has been successfully utilized by demand-led breeding programmes to identify varieties for ...

    • Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science 

      van Etten, Jacob; de Sousa, Kaue; et, al (26 medforfattere) (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

    • Data-driven decentralized breeding increases prediction accuracy in a challenging crop production environment 

      de Sousa, Kaue; van Etten, Jacob; Poland, Jesse A.; Fadda, Carlo; Jannink, Jean-Luc; Gebrehawaryat Kidane, Yosef; Fantahun Lakew, Basazen; Kassahun Mengistu, Dejene; Pe, Mario Enrico; Solberg, Svein Øivind; Dell’Acqua, Matteo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Crop breeding must embrace the broad diversity of smallholder agricultural systems to ensure food security to the hundreds of millions of people living in challenging production environments. This need can be addressed by ...

    • How climate awareness influences farmers’ adaptation decisions in Central America? 

      de Sousa, Kaue; Casanoves, Fernando; Sellare, Jorge; Ospina, Alejandra; Suchini, Jose Gabriel; Aguilar, Amilcar; Mercado, Leida (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Central America is one of the regions with the highest vulnerability to climate change, with negative effects projected to affect its economy and food security. To address this issue, an integrative farm management approach ...

    • The future of coffee and cocoa agroforestry in a warmer Mesoamerica 

      de Sousa, Kaue; van Zonneveld, Maarten; Holmgren, Milena; Kindt, Roeland; Ordonez, Jenny C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Climate change threatens coffee production and the livelihoods of thousands of families in Mesoamerica that depend on it. Replacing coffee with cocoa and integrating trees in combined agroforestry systems to ameliorate ...