Search Results - "AIDES"

Livestock feeds assessment report from Meru county, Kenya by Mwendia, Solomon W., Ohmstedt, Uwe, Peters, Michael, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

“…Meru Union’s knowledge on the societies that had not interacted with external livestock improvement initiatives aided arriving on a dairy society fitting the description. …”
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Crowdsourcing seed-based innovations to improve diversity, nutrition and crop productivity by Gebrehawaryat, Yosef, Hailemariam, Bogale Nigir, Mulugeta Tilahun

“…This technique for variety selection improves seed systems by enhancing variety recommendations, enhancing on-farm testing, engaging and empowering farmers, aiding in the diversification of seed systems, supporting the scaling up of on-farm agricultural research, allowing women to make their own variety selections, supplying business opportunities for farmers, women, and young people, and helping researchers learn farmers' variety preferences. …”
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Institutions matter: let knowledge make the difference (Road Map 2002 - 2006) by International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…In many countries the HIV-AIDS pandemic is taking a heavy toll on young adults, leaving the very old and the very young to farm the land or fish the seas. …”
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CLEANED: un outil rapide d’évaluation ex-ante des impacts environnementaux, climatiques et économiques de systèmes de production animale - Example du Sénégal by Hoek, Rein van der

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Growth in high-value export markets in sub-Saharan Africa and its development implications by Maertens, Miet, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

“…We put together the economic arguments; distinguish different channels through which rural households are affected; provide evidence from three comparative case-studies on high-value horticulture exports; and derive implications for policy makers, private investors, and the development aid community.…”
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Can FAO's measure of chronic undernourishment be strengthened? by Smith, Lisa C., Naiken, Logan

“…This number and its country- and regional-level disaggregations have proved tremendously useful to countless aid agencies and researchers. In the context of a recent wave of new nationally-representative household food consumption and expenditure data, this paper examines the estimation methodology underlying this food insecurity indicator, which relies on national aggregate measures of food availability and distribution. …”
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Are female orphans at risk for early marriage, early sexual debut, and teen pregnancy?: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa by Palermo, Tia, Peterman, Amber

“…Orphanhood status alone may not be a sufficient targeting mechanism for addressing these outcomes in many countries; a broader, multidimensional targeting scheme including orphan type, schooling, and poverty measures would be more robust in identifying and aiding young women at risk.…”
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Quantifying the health impact of crop breeding: Revisiting the Disability-Adjusted Life Years Approach by Lenaerts, Bert

“…The burden of hunger and its consequences on health are increasingly quantified using the Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) approach, which merges years of life lost and years lived with disability, offering a comprehensive view of health impacts and aiding in resource allocation despite its complexity and subjective nature. …”
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Human health and forests: a global overview of issues, practice and policy by Colfer, C.J.P.

“…Part II takes a multi-lens approach to lead the reader to a more concrete and holistic understanding using case studies from around the world that cover issues as important as the links between HIV/AIDs and the forest sector and diet and health. Part III looks at the specific challenges to health care delivery in forested areas including remoteness and the integration of traditional medicine with modern health care. …”
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Intensified agricultural land-use and bird conservation in Burkina Faso by Soderstrom, B., Kiema, S., Reid, Robin S.

“…The response of bird communities to a gradient of agricultural intensity was investigated in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Such knowledge may aid in predicting how avian diversity copes with increased human population density and land-use. …”
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Agroforestry systems in Africa: Role in livestock production and protection of the environment by Dzowela, B.H., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…Plantation crop understoreys are planted to aid nutrient cycling and provide high quality supplemental fodders. …”
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Low cost and state of the art methods to measure nitrous oxide emissions by Hensen A, Skiba U, Famulari D

“…This letter provides an overview of the available measurement techniques for nitrous oxide (N2O) flux measurement. It is presented to aid the choice of the most appropriate methods for different situations. …”
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Perspectives on partnership: Highlights of a literature review by Horton, D., Prain, Gordon, Thiele, Graham

“…The terms partner or partnership appear more than 100 times in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and more than 200 times in the version of the CGIAR's new Strategy and Results Framework presented at the recent Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development. …”
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Part 1: Agriculture growth, jobs, food security and climate: Taking action in response to IPCC by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Speakers in the first part of the conference were: - Justin Mundy, Director, 'The Prince's Charities' International Sustainability Unit - Pramod Aggarwal, CCAFS Regional Program Leader for South Asia, IPCC author (AR4) and IPCC reviewer (AR5) - Christine Allen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Christian Aid - Michel Mordansini, Vice President, International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) The moderator of this session was David Howlett, Climate Change and Livelihoods Adviser, Department for International Development (DFID).…”
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Information resources for cassava research and breeding by Ayling, S., Ferguson, Morag E., Rounsley, S., Kulakow, Peter A.

“…A number of groups worldwide are working to improve cassava by conventional breeding, by molecular marker-aided breeding, and through the use of transgenic approaches. …”
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The effect of nest box temperature on the breeding success of Pied Flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) in northern Sweden by Boer, Jorina

“…Thermal variations facilitated by restoration treatments might thus prove a valuable tool to aid avian breeding success.…”

The impact of rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing on farm and household sustainability in rural Tanzania by Escobar Jaramillo, Diana Lucia

“…Food insecurity and poverty are of major concern for farmers in Tanzania, and the technologies rainwater harvesting coupled with fertilizer micro-dosing promise to aid in easing these burdens, particularly in a water-limited context. …”

A spatio-temporal dataset on food flows for four West African cities by Karg, H., Akoto-Danso, E. K., Amprako, L., Drechsel, Pay, Nyarko, G., Lompo, D.J.-P., Ndzerem, S., Sidibe, S., Hoschek, M., Buerkert, A.

“…The data can also be employed to inform academic and policy discussions on urban food system sustainability, to validate other datasets, and to plan humanitarian aid and food security interventions.…”
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Hunger, food sovereignty and COVID-19 pandemic: Food risks during lockdown by Chavarro, Monica Juliana, Mosquera-Becerra, Janeth

“…Institutional responses were insufficient in quality and coverage, since feeding aid focused on calories and logistic aspects. The solutions implemented by households were guided by collective action and social organization around the community pots. …”
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Agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Eight new insights by Christiaensen, Luc, Martin, Will

“…They also add important nuances to this broad empirical regularity, uncover a series of structural conditions that affect this relation, and show that different mechanisms to finance public investment to boost sectoral growth (deficit financing, taxation or aid) can have widely different impacts on poverty, a widely-ignored issue so far. …”
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