Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

The domestic market for small-scale chainsaw milling in Cameroon: present situation, opportunities and challenges por Cerutti, P.O., Lescuyer, G.

“…In 1994 Cameroon adopted a new forest law that focussed on the large-scale, export-oriented industrial forest sector while timber produced through small-scale logging for the domestic market was ignored, even in official statistics, and is generally produced without a valid permit. …”
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Financing household tree plantations in Vietnam: Current programmes and future options por Sikor, T.

“…The report highlights the benefits of adopting a loan-based approach to providing external finance to households managing commercial tree plantations in Vietnam. …”
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Legal and institutional frameworks at national and subnational levels for biofuel promotion in Mexico por Romero Hernández, O., Masera, O., Romero, S., Grunstein, M.

“…Mexico has recently taken significant steps toward promoting the bioenergy sector. Motivations to adopt bioenergy include: energy security, economic development and international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Theileriosis: Progress towards vaccine development through understanding immune responses to the parasite por Morrison, W. Ivan, Taracha, E.L.N., McKeever, Declan J.

“…First, the strain specificity of CTL in cattle immunized with one stock of the parasite was found to correlate with the subsequent susceptibility of individual animals to challenge with a heterologous cloned parasite population. Second, the adoptive transfer of lymphocytes highly enriched for CD8 plus T cells, from immune to naive identical twin calves, was found to protect against experimental challenge. …”
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Infrastructure for sustainable use of animal genetic resources in southern and eastern Africa por Zonabend König, Emelie, Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Ojango, Julie M.K., Hoffmann, I., Moyo, Siboniso, Philipsson, J.

“…The Global Plan of Action (GPA) for Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR) adopted by FAO recognizes the role of AnGR for food security through improved productivity while maintaining genetic diversity. …”
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Modeling the managed aquifer recharge for groundwater salinity management in the Sokh River Basin por Karimov, Akmal A., Gracheva, I., Miryusupov, F.

“…The modeling results show that adopting water saving technologies and increased groundwater recharge through the river floodplain allows maintaining low groundwater salinity. …”
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Current status and scope for improvement of agricultural water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic River Basin por Xueliang Cai, Sharma, Bharat R., Matin, Mir Abdul

“…This paper assesses the agricultural water consumption and productivity of the predominant crop paddy rice and wheat for the Indo-Gangetic river basin (IGB) in South Asia. A new approach was adopted in the study to integrate census, remote sensing and weather data to assess crop water productivity (WP) across large scale. …”
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Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia por Kamara, A., Swallow, B.M., Kirk, M.

“…Intensive literature review was combined with in-depth key informant and group interviews to identify key policies and interventions, assess their impacts and explore the responses and strategies adopted at both individual and community levels to cope with the changing situation. …”
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Linkages between changes in land cover (use) patterns, local perceptions and livelihoods in a coastal wetland system in Sri Lanka por Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Finlayson, C. Max, Nagabhatla, N., Diphoorn, Luuk

“…The findings indicate the usefulness of adopting this type of approach where both conservation and development needs are considered to address environmental concerns and related livelihood issues in wetlands.…”
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The impact of small-scale irrigation on household food security: the case of Filtino and Godino irrigation schemes in Ethiopia por Tesfaye, A., Bogale, A., Namara, Regassa E., Bacha, D.

“…Studies elsewhere revealed that access to reliable irrigation water can enable farmers to adopt new technologies and intensify cultivation, leading to increased productivity, overall higher production, and greater returns from farming. …”
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Gender analysis of land use for urban agriculture and sustainability of livelihoods in Freetown, Sierra Leone por Idowu, O.A., Cofie, Olufunke O., Adeoti, A.

“…A survey research design was adopted in this study and the respondents for the study were stratified in terms of gender and UA enterprises. …”
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A case study of cash cropping in Nepal: poverty alleviation or inequity? por Brown, S., Kennedy, G.

“…Agricultural commercialization as a mechanism to alleviate rural poverty raises concerns about small land-holders, non-adopters, and inequity in the distribution of benefits within transforming economies. …”
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The effect of cassava mosaic disease on the genetic diversity of cassava in Uganda por Kizito, Elizabeth Balyejusa, Bua, A., Fregene, Martin A., Egwang, T.G., Gullberg, U.

“…The high genetic diversity suggests a mechanism by which diversity is maintained by the active involvement of the Ugandan farmer in continuously testing and adopting new genotypes that will serve their diverse needs. …”
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The framework for regional collaboration in animal agriculture: The SADC Animal Agriculture Network (SAARNET) por Lebbie, S.H.B.

“…It is against this backdrop that SACCAR has adopted networking as a strategy to achieve strong coordination and collaboration among SADC member states for regional Development and advancement in agriculture. …”
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Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Zwarteveen, M.Z., Kuper, M., Boesveld, H., Kooij, S. van der, Wanvoeke, J., Benouniche, M., Errahj, M., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Verma, S.

“…Rather than ascribing the advent of drip irrigation as a successful technology to intrinsic technical features, this paper proposes to see it as grounded in the ability drip irrigation has to lend itself to multiple contexts and discourses that articulate desirable futures. We thus adopt a view of technology whereby the ‘real’ (i.e. the drip irrigation hardware) acquires its characteristics only through, and within, the network of institutions, discourses and practices that enact it. …”
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Cassava value chain development through partnership and stakeholders platform in Cameroon por Njukwe, E., Hanna, R., Sarr, S., Shigeru, A., Kirscht, H., Mbairanodji, A., Ngue-Bissa, T., Tenkouano, A.

“…In a partnership agreement between the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and PNDRT to enhance cassava production, IITA adopted the value chain approach in research-for-development that guarantees the coverage of production to consumption and considers all groups from farmers to consumers and developed a variety of cassava processing techniques to broaden the range of products derived from cassava. …”
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Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice por Ensor, Jonathan, Harvey, Blane

“…To support those looking to purposively design social learning interventions for adaptation, we focus on four areas: lessons learned and the principles adopted when using a social learning approach, examples of tools and methods used, approaches to evaluating social learning, and examples of its impact. …”
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Modelling the flood-risk extent using LISFLOOD-FP in a complex watershed: case study of Mundeni Aru River Basin, Sri Lanka por Amarnath, Giriraj, Umer, Yakob, Alahacoon, Niranga, Inada, Yoshiaki

“…Flood management is adopting a more risk-based approach, whereby flood risk is the product of the probability and consequences of flooding. …”
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Assessment of potential CSA options for future agriculture production in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…It is recommended that the potential positive actions identified by the team be considered in the region’s policies and regulations in the future; in the incentives adopted to promote new technologies and practices; in investment priorities; and in capacity development initiatives. …”
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Unsustainable development pathways caused by tropical deforestation por Carrasco, Luis Roman, Nghiem, Le, Chen, Zhirong, Barbier, Edward B.

“…Weak sustainability requires that countries do not decrease their aggregate capital over time. We adopt a strong sustainability criterion that countries do not decrease the value of their forest ecosystem services with respect to the year 2000. …”
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