Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

Livelihood strategies of resource poor farmers in strigainfested areas of western Kenya por Manyong, Victor M., Alene, A., Odhiambo, G.D., Mignouna, Hodeba D., Bokanga, M., Omanya, G., Nindi, S.J.

“…Results revealed certain characteristics of households that were more likely to be poor: poor access to land and farm assets; high dependency ratio; headed by older farmer with low education attainment; no off-farm work, no cash crops; depend on credit; Striga has been on the farm for long, high perceived yield loss to Striga given high dependency on maize for livelihoods; adopt no integrated Striga control options; and live in Bondo and Vihiga districts. …”
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Opportunities for smallholder farmers to benefit from conservation agricultural practices por Nhamo, N., Lungu, O.N.

“…Farmers living in dire poverty may not be able to adopt CA effectively. More data is required to characterize the farmer typology which can effectively apply CA as a climate smart technology.…”
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Attitudes towards risk among maize farmers in the dry savanna zone of Nigeria: some prospective policies for improving food production por Olarinde, L.O., Manyong, Victor M., Akintola, J.O.

“…A four-stage sampling technique leading to the selection of a final sample of about 350 maize farmers was adopted. Results show that, about 8, 42% and 50% of the farmers are respectively lowly, intermediately and highly averse to maize risk. …”
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Legality Constraints: The Emergence of a Dual Market for Tropical Timber Products? por Masiero, M., Pettenella, D., Cerutti, P.O.

“…The European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA), and Australia have adopted specific measures to avoid the placing of illegal timber on their markets. …”
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Genetic improvement for the sustainable management of resistance por Craenen, K., Ortíz, R.

“…Although other breeding approaches such as genetic transformation, mutagenesis and somaclonal variation are advocated to develop new resistance to Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases in Musa, farmers today are only adopting the research products from the so-called conventional breeding, i.e. tetraploid or triploid resistant hybrids from interspecific interploidy crosses. …”
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Tropical Forages and the Diffusion of Brachiaria Cultivars in Latin America por CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council

“…Basilisk (CIAT 606) was the first cultivar adopted in Latin America and remains an important forage grass cultivar. …”
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Operationalising resilience in tropical agricultural value chains por Aboah, Joshua, Wilson, Mark M.J., Rich, Karl M., Lyne, Michael C.

“…This paper aims to present a framework for the operationalisation of the concept of socioecological resilience in agricultural value chains that incorporates upstream activities.A citation network analysis was adopted to review articles. A conceptual framework is then advanced to identify elements of resilience and indicators relevant to tropical agricultural value chains.There are limited studies that assess resilience in the food chain context. …”
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Eggplant latent viroid, the candidate type species for a new genus within the family Avsunviroidae (hammerhead viroids) por Fadda, Z., Daros, José A., Fagoaga, Carmen, Flores, R., Durán-Vila, Núria

“…Sequencing 10 complete cDNA clones showed that ELVd is a circular RNA of 332 to 335 nucleotides with high variability. This RNA can adopt a quasi-rod-like secondary structure of minimal free energy and alternative foldings that permit formation of stable hammerhead structures in plus and minus strands. …”
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Estimation of Leaf Wetness Duration Requirements of Foliar Fungal Pathogens with Uncertain Data-An Application to Mycosphaerella nawae por Makowski, David, Bancal, R., Vicent, Antonio

“…Given the flexibility of the proposed method, we expect it to become adopted for assessing the risk of introduction of exotic fungal plant pathogens.…”
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Effect of host instar on host discrimination of heterospecific parasitized hosts by sympatric parasitoids por Cebolla, Ruth, Bru, Pablo, Urbaneja, Alberto, Tena, Alejandro

“…The behavioural strategies adopted towards multi‐parasitise third‐instar hosts varied between both species. …”
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Polarization Lidar Detection of Agricultural Aerosol Emissions por Gregorio, Eduard, Gene, Jordi, Sanz, Ricardo, Rocadenbosch, Francesc, Chueca, Patricia, Arnó, Jaume, Solanelles, Francesc, Rosell-Polo, Joan R.

“…Therefore, it is essential to adopt new sensing techniques for real-time monitoring these emissions in high temporal and spatial resolution. …”
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Service functions of agroforestry systems por Beer, John, Harvey, Celia A., Ibrahim, Muhammad Akbar, Somarriba, Eduardo, Harmand, Jean Michel, Jiménez Otárola, Francisco

“…Methods for managing financial incentives, as rewards to farmers who provide these services by adopting/improving AFS, in order to leverage better land use, also have to be developed and tested in different socio economic frameworks. …”
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Intellectual property rights in common bean breeding por Widengård, Marie

“…In focus is the common bean and legislative system of Nicaragua, a developing country that recently adopted plant breeders' rights that go beyond world trade agreements and against farmers' rights to exchange and informally sell seed. …”
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Analysis of production risk and technical efficiency amongst smallholder livestock farmers in Botswana por Chube, Boitshepo

“…The preliminary estimation of the Just-Pope production function did not lead to interpretable econometric results and for this reason, a change had to be made in the adopted empirical model. An alternative stochastic production model has been implemented empirically and estimated using a maximum likelihood (ML) estimation approach. …”
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Closer-to-nature forestry : Mapping the views of some stakeholders to the new EU Forest Strategy por Bygge, Astrid

“…The European Commission adopted the European (EU) Forest Strategy in 2021, where forests and forest management practises such as closer-to-nature forestry (CNF) are identified as a key in solving the two crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. …”

Kastration av katt por Magnusson, Jessica

“…This technique has been used by shelters in the United States for a long time, to prevent the adopted cats from reproduce and contribute to the problem of overpopulation. …”
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Comparative analysis of organic and conventional farming in Italy por Grotti, Chiara

“…At the bottom of the supply chain, grapes growers are in front of a decision: adopting organic farming or continuing with conventional practices. …”

Solar power investment under uncertainty por Sabel Douglas, Tom Duncan

“…In this thesis a real option model is adopted in order to evaluate the profitability and timing of investment in solar power generation in Sweden. …”
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Second External Program Review of ILCA, 1986 por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…The panel encouraged ILCA to continued with its farming systems approach, although the collaborating national research systems had not yet adopted this approach. This aspect of ILCA's work was concentrated in five zonal programs, which worked quite independently. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Sixtieth Meeting, 22 March - 2 April 1993: Report of the Meeting por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…It also endorsed the praise for WARDA's transformation from an external review panel, and urged the center to adopt the concept of an open center to achieve a viable program. …”
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