Publications of supported research projects Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
Publications from 76 supported projects in the thematic area of sustainable agriculture and food security:
Adodoadji, Isaac Doetse, Transitioning from Organic to Biodynamic Farming: The Case of the Zanzibar Organic Spice Growers in Tanzania, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
Alum, Christine Arwata, Farm Resource Allocation Decisions in Smallholder Farming Systems in the Mt. Elgon Region, Uganda , 2021 Summary as View-PDF
Shah-Al Emran, Timothy J. Krupnik, Sreejith AravindakshanI, Virender Kumar and Cameron M. Pittelkow, Factors contributing to farm-level productivity and household income generation in coastal Bangladesh’s rice-based farming systems, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
Aravindakshana, Sreejith, Timothy J. Krupnik, Sumona Shahrin, Pablo Tittonell, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Lenora Ditzler, Jeroen C. J. Groot, Socio‑cognitive constraints and opportunities for sustainable intensification in South Asia: insights from fuzzy cognitive mapping in coastal Bangladesh, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
MD Mashiur Rahman, Sreejith Aravindakshan, Muhammad Arshadul Hoque, Mohammad Arifur Rahman, Md. Ashrafuzzaman Gulandaz, Jubaidur Rahman, Md. Tariqul Islam, Conservation tillage (CT) for climate-smart sustainable intensification: Assessing the impact of CT on soil organic carbon accumulation, greenhouse gas emission and water footprint of wheat cultivation in Bangladesh, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
Aravindakshana, Sreejith, Timothy J. Krupnik, T.S. Amjath- Babu, Stijn Speelman, Juan Tor-Cardona, Pablo Tittonell and Jeroen C.J. Groot, Quantifying farmers’ preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh’s risk prone farming systems , 2021 Summary as View-PDF
Aravindakshana, Sreejith, Timothy J. Krupnik, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Erika N. Speelman, T.S. Amjath- Babu and Pablo Tittonell,, Multi-level socioecological drivers of agrarian change: Longitudinal evidence from mixed rice-livestock-aquaculture farming systems of Bangladesh, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
Graser, Maximilian, Michelle Bonatti, Luca Eufemia, Héctor Morales, Marcos Lana, Katharina Löhr and Stefan Sieber, Peacebuilding in Rural Colombia—A Collective Perception of the Integrated Rural Reform (IRR) in the Department of Caquetá (Amazon), 2020 Summary as View-PDF
Feuerbacher, Arndt, Economy-wide Modelling of Seasonal, Labour and Natural Resource Policies, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
Hua Ma, Systematic analysis of biochar performance on plant growth in soybean cropping system at marginal area in Germany and China, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
Hua Ma, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Stephan Wirth, Qirui Li , Richard Ansong Omari, Mudan Hou and Sonoko D. Bellingrath-Kimura, Effect of Biochar and Irrigation on the Interrelationships among Soybean Growth, Root Nodulation, Plant P Uptake, and Soil Nutrients in a Sandy Field, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
Nwankwo, Charles Ikenna, Seedball technology development for subsistence-oriented pearl millet production systems in Sahelian West Africa, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Ashrafi, Samad, Isolation and characterisation of novel nematophagous fungi from eggs of the cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi and identifying their secondary metabolites with nematicidal activity , 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Graser, Maximilian, Peacebuilding and rural development in post-conflict Colombia: A departmental problem and institutional analysis of Caquetá, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Mertens, Jan Heiko, Mitigate Habitat Degradation in the Semiarid Brazil – Potential and Limitation of the Endemic Tree Spondias tuberosa Arruda, 2017 Summary as View-PDF
Prado, Manuel Arredondo, Ecological design in the Mexican rainforest under
uncertainty and surprise: A case study of the Flor de Marqués Ejido as a public experiment
according to Gross (2010), 2017 Summary as View-PDF
Weigelt, Jes: Koordinierung von Stakeholdern des nachhaltigen Landmanagements zur Verbesserung der Lebensgrundlagen im Distrikt Lushoto, Tansania (Coordination by stakeholders of sustainable land management to improve livelihoods in the district of Lushoto, Tanzania), 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Jensen, Christin: Ecologisation of the apple production in Lebanon, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Ashrafi, Samad, Marc Stadler, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Katja R. Richert-Pöggeler,
Maria R. Finckh, Wolfgang Maier
: Monocillium gamsii sp. nov. and Monocillium bulbillosum: two
nematode-associated fungi parasitising the eggs of Heterodera filipjevi, 2017
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Ashrafi, Samad, Soleiman Helaly, Hans-Josef Schroers, Marc Stadler, Katja R.
Richert-Poeggeler, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Wolfgang Maier
: Ijuhya vitellina sp. nov., a novel source for chaetoglobosin A, is a destructive
parasite of the cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi, 2017 Summary as View-
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Mertens, Jan Heiko, Sonja Germer, Jörn Germer and Joachim Sauerborn:
Comparison of soil amendments for reforestation with a native multipurpose tree under
semiarid climate: Root and root tuber response of Spondias tuberosa, 2017 Summary as View-
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Tóthmihály, András: Three essays on the economics of cocoa – The technical and
environmental efficiency of Indonesian cocoa production , 2017 Summary as View-PDF
Weiss, David: Visual teaching material for illiterate farmers to deliver information
about sustainable agricultural practice in an intercultural context: the case of Madagascar
and Burkina Faso, 2017 Summary as View-PDF
Fröschle, Melanie: Research on the Impact of Bee Pollination as well as
Application of Plant Growth Regulators on Jatropha Curcas and Characterisation of
the Harvested Jatropha-Honey, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
Krön, Katharina, Ivan Landers, Jessica Lloyd and Meret Zeller: Options for
sustainable agriculture in the Chereponi District. Multidiciplinary Research Report
2016, 2016
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Lichtner, Ann-Kathrin: Assessing management options for Zimbabwean smallholder
farmers to enhance yield reliability in face of climate change , 2016 Summary as View-
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Mertens, Jan, Jörn Germer, José Coelho de Araújo Filho and Joachim Sauerborn:
Effect of biochar, clay substrate and manure application on water availability and treeseedling
performance in a sandy soil, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
Reincke, Katrin: The contribution of cassava production to food security of
smallholder farmers in the regions of Dodoma and Morogoro, Tanzania, 2016 Summary as View-
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Wicharuck, Suwimon: Land use sustainability and soil resource conservation in
northern Thai highlands, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
Zimmermann, Judith: The biocontrol agent Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
strigae - Monitoring its envoronmental fate and impact on indigenous fungal
communities in the rhizosphere of maize, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
Asante, Michael: Nitrogen dynamics in lowland rice cropping systems in inland
valleys of northern Ghana, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
Dally, Kristin, Nikolaus Hruschka, Oswald Owusu Akuoko and Nora Simons :
Options for sustainable agriculture in the Chereponi District. Multidiciplinary Research
Report 2015, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
Lemke, Nahleen: Assessing the current state of soil degradation and soil erosion
potential of Kyrgyz highland pastures - a case study in Naryn Oblast, 2015 Summary as View-
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Mertens, Jan Heiko, J. Germer, J. A. Siqueira Filho and J. Sauerborn: Spondias
tuberosa Arruda (Anacardiaceae), a threatened tree of the Brazilian Caatinga?,
2015 Summary
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Mertens, Jan Heiko, Jarcilene Silva de Almeida-Cortez, Jörn Germer and Joachim
Sauerborn: Umbuzeiro (Spondias Tuberosa): A Systematic Review, 2015
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Bateki Adjogo, Christian, Elli Wahl, Kwame Ansah Baffour and Ukeme Okon
Archibong: Options for sustainable agriculture in Chereponi District. Multidisciplinary
Research Report 2014, 2014 Summary as View-PDF
Haddad, Danielle, Krasimir Stoyanov, Harun Ar Rashid and Felicity Addo:
Interdisciplinary Report. The Options for Sustainable Agriculture in Relation to
Soybean Production Chereponi-North East Ghana, 2013 Summary as View-PDF
Moeller, Carina, Joachim Sauerborn, Peter de Voil, Ahmad M. Manschadi, Mustafa
Pala and Holger Meinke: Assessing the sustainability of wheat-based cropping
systems using simulation modelling: sustainability = 42?, 2013 Summary as View-PDF
Vásquez Vásquez , Norvis: Does participation in certification schemes lead to more
sustainable agricultural production?, 2013 Summary as View-PDF
Reschke, Julia: Methoden der räumlichen Abgrenzung mediterraner Feuchtgebiete
unter Verwendung multitemporaler Landsat Daten (Methods of the spatial demarcation of
Mediterranean wetlands using multitemporal landsat data), 2012 Summary as View-PDF
Blum, Lloyd: Increasing Food Security through Agroforestry? Agrofrestry adoption
patterns around Kakamega Forest, Western Province, Kenya, 2010 Summary as View-PDF
Kremer, Vera: Comparative evaluation of green manure legumes for reclamation of
degraded terraces in the mid-hills of Nepal, 2010 Summary as View-PDF
Pircher, Thomas: Maize as a mirror of life. A case study from Malawi about the
diversity of farming and smallholders’ performance in growing maize, 2010 Summary as View-
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Tiyayon, Patumporn: Physiological and Molecular mechnisms of flowering in
longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.), 2010 Summary as View-PDF
Abuelgasim Elzein, Frank Brändle, Georg Cadisch, Jürgen Kroschel, Paul Marley and
Marco Thines: Fusarium oxysporum Strains as Potential Striga Mycoherbicides:
Molecular Characterization and Evidence for a new forma specialis, 2008 Summary as View-
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Altmann, Jens Georg: Einfluss von Holzkohle auf ausgewählte Parameter der
Bodenfruchtbarkeit eines Lixisols unter Mais in Bolivien, 2008 Summary as View-PDF
Potchanasin, Parichart: Artificial Induction by Potassium Chlorate of „Off Season
“ Floral Induction in Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) Trees and the Participation
of Phytohormones, 2008 Summary as View-PDF
Prechsl, Ulrich: Explorative agricultural study of Shangrila project villages in Jumla
and Mugu District, Western Nepal, 2008 Summary as View-PDF
Sringarm, Kanokwan: Participation of Correlative Hormonal Signals in the Floral
Induction of Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) Trees Induced by the Application of
Potassium Chlorate, 2008 Summary as View-PDF
Stürz, Sabine: Mechanistische Bewertung von Eisentoxizitätsresistenz von
Nassreis im Feldanbau im Mekong-Delta, Vietnam (Mechanistic assessment of iron toxicity
resistance of wet rice in field cultivation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam), 2008 Summary only in
German as View-PDF
Akter, Zafrin: Investigations on rhizosphere management for a better Mn and Zn
acquistion and disease resistance in crop plants in the model system of take-all disease in
Wheat, 2007
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Chen, Haiqing: Evaluation of Carbon Sequestration Potential in Agricultural Soils in
Baden-Württemberg, South West Germany, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Elzein, Abuelgasim: Seed treatment technology and Pesta formulation: Efficient
delivery systems for Striga mycoherbicides - a step towards practical Striga
control in Africa, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Ihsan Qasim Swaidat: Development of Alternative Strategies for the Control of the
Important Phytopathogens Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) and Erwinia
amylovora (Burrill), 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Marohn, Carsten: Rainforestation farming on Leyte island, Philippines - aspects of
soil fertility and carbon sequestration potential, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Moeller, Carina, Mustafa Pala, Ahmad M. Manschadi, Holger Meinke and Joachim
Sauerborn: Assessing the sustainability of wheat-based cropping systems using
APSIM: model parameterisation and evaluation, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Müller-Stöver, Dorette and Joachim Sauerborn: A commercial iron fertilizer
increases the survival of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. orthoceras propagules in
a wheat flour-kaolin formulation, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Sheikh Harun-or-Rashid: Ecology, vegetation and soil seed bank studies of
Sundarban mangrove forest in Bangladesh, 2007 Summary as View-PDF
Chekol, Dilnesaw Alamirew: Modeling of Hydrology and Soil Erosion of Upper
Awash River Basin, 2006 Summary as View-PDF
Müller-Stöver, Dorette und Joachim Sauerborn: Integrierte Bekämpfung des
wurzelparasitischen Unkrauts Orobanche cumana in Sonnenblume (Integrated
control of root parasitic weeds Orobanche cumana in sunflower), 2006 Summary only in
German as View-PDF
Hähnke, Sonja: Weeds and weed control in rice - a survey in Sri Lanka, 2004
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Sangakkara, U. R., K. Hurle and B. Rubin: Herbicide use patterns and weed
populations in rice fields of Sri Lanka, 2004 Summary as View-PDF
Sangakkara, U. R.; Nissanka, S. P.; Bandaranayake, P. R. S. D.; Hurle, K.; Rubin, B.:
Ischaemum rugisum - is there herbicide resistance?, 2004 Summary as View-
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Fiebiger, Markus: Evaluation of Crop Cultivation Potential at the Brim of Rain Fed
Agriculture by Means of an Agro-Ecological Crop-Simulation Model, 2003 Summary as View-
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Issaka, Kassimou: Innovations in Agricultural Technology: Assessment of
Constraints and Performance in Benin, 2002 Summary as View-PDF
Monje, Juan Carlos, F. Ponce und A. Benzing: Streifen- und Untersaaten von
Futterleguminosen im Feldgemüse als Möglichkeit der Regulierung mono- und polyphager
Schädlinge im Hochland von Ecuador (Strip-till and catch crop of fodder legumes in fields
of tables as a possibility of regulating mono- and polyphagic pests in the highlands of
Ecuador), 2002 Summary only in German as View-PDF
Sangakkara, U. R., K. Hurle and B. Rubin: Integrated Weed Management for
Prevention of the Evolution and Spread of Herbicide Resistandt Weeds in Sri Lanka,
2002 Summary as
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Sangakkara, U. R., K. Hurle and B. Rubin: Herbicide Resistance and Sustaining
Food Security in South Asian Rice Culture - A Case Study, 2002 Summary as View-PDF
Heincke, Maren: Effects of Soil Solution on Nitrous Oxide Emissions, 2001 Summary as View-
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Sangakkara, U. R.; Nissanka, S. P.; Marambe, B.; Hurle, K.; Rubin, B.: Weeds,
Herbicide Use and Resistance in Rice Fields of Sri Lanka, 2001 Summary as View-PDF
Kongkaew, Thanuchai: Yields and Nutrient Budgets of Hillside Cropping Systems
with Erosion Control in Northern Thailand, 2000 Summary as View-PDF
Ramsperger, Barbara: Einfluß von Staubdepositionen auf die ökologischen
Eigenschaften der Böden in der semiariden bis subhumiden Pampa Argentiniens (Tbe
Influence of Dust Deposition on tbe Ecological Cbaracteristics of Soils in tbe Semiarid to
Subhumid Argentinean Pampas), 1999 Summary as View-PDF
Li, Shuqiang: IPM zur Bekämpfung von Helicoverpa armigera in China -
Wirkungen von Insektizidbehandlungen auf Arthropoden im Baumwollökosystem (IPM to
combat Helicoverpa armigera in China - Effects of insecticide treatments on
arthropods in the cotton ecosystem), 1998 Summary as View-PDF
Römheld, Volker, Klaus Becker und Andreas Bürkert: Einfluß von
Düngunmgsmaßnahmen in agro-pastoralen Rotationssystemen des südlichen Niger auf
die Human- und Tierernährung (The impact of fertilizing measures in agro-pastoral rotation
systems of the southern Niger on the human and animal nutrition), 1998 Summary only in
German as View-PDF
Rodríguez Montero, Werner: Crop Physiology of the Greater Yam (Discorea
alata L.), 1997 Summary as View-PDF
Gaigl, Andreas: Bedeutung verschiedener Raubmilbenarten als natürliche
Gegenspieler der Grünen Maniokspinnmilbe Mononychellus tanajoa Bondar
(Importance of different predatory mite species as natural opponents of the Green cassava
spin mite Mononychellus tanajoa Bondar), 1996 Summary only in German as View-
PDF
Monje Mendoza, Juan Carlos: Möglichkeiten einer integrierten Bekämpfung von
Zuckerrohrstengelbohrern (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) im Tiefland Boliviens mit besonderer
Berücksichtigung von Trichogamma spp. (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
(Possibilities for the integrated control of cane borers (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in the
lowlands of Bolivia, with special consideration of Trichogamma spp. (Hymenoptera:
Trichogrammatidae)), 1996 Summary as View-PDF
Blumenschein, Markus: Der modernisierte Sojaanbau im Cerrado. Bedingungen für
eine nachhaltige Entwicklung am Sao Lourenço-Oberlauf (Mato Grosso, Brasilien)
(Modernized soya cultivation in Cerrado. Conditions for a Sustainable development at Sao
Lourenço (Mato Grosso, Brazil)), 1995 Summary only in German as View-
PDF
Nuglor, Surat: Investigations on Growth, Resource use and Yield of Upland Rice
(Oryza sativa (L.)) and Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) as influenced
by Alley Cropping with Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) in Northern
Thailand, 1994 Summary as View-PDF
George, Eckhard: Growth and Phosphate Efficiency of Grain Legumes and Barley
under Dryland Conditions in Northwest Syria, 1993 Summary as View-PDF
Gerdes, Gerriet: Calibration of the Soybean Growth Simulation Model SOYGRO for
Central Portugal, 1993 Summary as View-PDF
Clemens, Gerhard und Arieh Singer: Ameliorating Chlorosis-Inducing Soils with
Rock Materials of Varying Porosity and Iron Content, 1992 Summary as View-PDF
Reining, Ludger: Charakterisierung und Verminderung der Bodenerosion durch
Wasser in kleinbäuerlichen Maniokanbausystemen (Erosion in Andean Hillside Farming)
, 1991
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Schaab, Ralf: Aphiden in Baumwolle und deren natürliche Gegenspieler (Aphids in
cotton and their natural opponents), 1991 Summary only in German as View-
PDF
Braun, Mathias: Probleme des Pflanzenschutzes im kleinbäuerlichen
Gemüseanbau des Zentralsudan, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung sozioökonomischer
Aspekte (Problems of plant protection in small-scale vegetable cultivation of the Central
Sudan, with special consideration of socioeconomic aspects), 1990 Summary only in German as View-
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Clemens, Gerhard: Charakterisierung und Melioration von Chlorosestandorten
(Characterization and Melioration of Chlorosis-inducing Soils), 1990 Summary as View-PDF
Pülschen, Ludwig: Die Segetalflora im Körnerfrucht-Produktionssystem der
Zentralprovinz Schoa, Äthiopien, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung synökologischer
Aspekte (The weed flora in the grain production system of the central province of Shoa,
Ethiopia, with special consideration of synecological aspects), 1990 Summary only in German as View-
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Jung, Gerd-Heinrich: Untersuchung der Erfolgsvoraussetzungen und
ökonomischen Auswirkungen einer verbesserten Saatguterzeugung in einem
Entwicklungsland - Fallstudie Nepal - (Study on the Success Criteria and Economic Impact
of Improved Seed Production in a Developing Country - Case Study Nepal -), 1988 Summary only in
German as View-PDF
Schmid, Wilhelm: Art, Dynamik und Bedeutung der Segetalflora in maisbetonten
Produktionssystemen Togos (Nature, dynamics and importance of the weed flora in maize
dominated production systems in Togo), 1987 Summary only in German as View-
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Kürschner, Ekkehard: Untersuchungen zu Art, Dynamik und Bedeutung der
Segetalflora in West-Samoa unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Taro (Colocasia
esculenta (L.) Schott) (Studies on the nature, dynamics and importance of the weed
flora in Western Samoa with special consideration of Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.)
Schott)), 1986
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Turian, Günther: P- und Spurenelement-Verteilungsmuster in der Bodendecke der
Azoren (Portugal) (P- and trace element distribution patterns in the Azores’ soil cover
(Portugal)), 1986 Summary only in German as View-PDF
Weber, Jürgen Ralf: Angewandte und hormonale Aspekte der
Fruchtbehangsregulierung bei Mandarinen in der Cukurova (Türkei) (Applied and
hormonal aspects of fruit hanging regulation control in mandarins in Cukurova (Turkey))
, 1986
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Beck, Johannes: Die Segetalflora im Maisanbau Nicaraguas. Untersuchungen über
Vorkommen, Bekämpfung und Interferenz mit der Kulturpflanze (The weed flora in corn
cultivation of Nicaragua. Study on occurrence, control and interference with the crop plant)
, 1985
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Margraf, Josef: Ökologische Untersuchungen an Ifugao Reisterrassen, Philippinen.
Kleinorganismen, Fauna und synökologische Betrachtungen (Ecological Studies at Ifugao
Rice Terraces, Philippines. Small organisms, fauna and synecological considerations),
1985 Summary
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Kaiser, Karl: Possibilities to increase the Technical and Economic Efficiencies of
Nitrogen Fertilizers in Irrigated Rice in the Philippines, 1984 Summary as View-PDF
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