Search Results - "Adoption"

Social perception and challenges of light greywater reuse at the household level in developing countries: a case study of Bucaramanga, Colombia by Burgos-Arias, J., Rey-Romero, D. C., Oviedo-Ocana, E. R.

“…Seventy-four per cent of respondents were willing to adopt this water reclamation scheme. Education level significantly influenced perceptions of reuse, while gender and age had no significant effect. …”
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The Climate-Smart Villages – CSV of Santa Rita as a local innovation platform for scaling ecosystem- based adaptation in Honduras by Martinez Salgado, Jesus David, Borrayo, Andrea Surama, Cindy, Gómez, Castellanos, Andrea, Martinez Baron, Deissy

“…This approach seeks to strengthen communities’ capacity to reduce their climate vulnerability by increasing their knowledge and adopting informed and sustainable measures related to soil conservation and management, water, biodiversity, the use of local agro-climatic information, emission reduction measures, and adaptation plans contextualized to the specific needs of families and communities through a participatory and inclusive process.…”
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Women’s participation in the forage and dual-purpose maize seed market in Laos by Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Bravo, Aura Maria, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan, Snyder, Katherine, Atieno, Mary Otieno, Philp, Joshua

“…Yet, women continue to encounter significant challenges in agricultural markets, particularly in trade, underscoring the critical need for gender-sensitive approaches to support their agricultural roles (Ireson, 1996; Millar & Connell, 2010; Moglia et al., 2020). The analysis adopted Porter’s Five Forces Framework for Industry Analysis (Ghemawat & Collis, 2010), adapted to accommodate various actor types within the seed system. …”
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Measuring agrifood systems: New indicators and global estimates by Thurlow, James, Holtemeyer, Brian, Jiang, Shiyun, Pauw, Karl, Randriamamonjy, Josee

“…Agrifood transformation is also key to healthier diets and more sustainable production systems. However, adopting an agrifood system perspective is not trivial—it requires looking “beyond agriculture” when prioritizing policies and tracking outcomes by also considering upstream and downstream agrifood-related activities, such as agro-processing and food distribution. …”
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Lessons Learned from Implementing the CAADP Biennial Review Process Under the Malabo Declaration by Makombe, T., Ulimwengu, John M., Matchaya, Greenwell C.

“…Key recommendations include adopting coherent data governance policies, promoting BR awareness and data utilization, refining the BR scorecard methodology, expanding data clusters to more countries, strengthening M&E capacities, ensuring inclusive BR validation, and integrating the BR database with M&E systems at both national and regional levels. …”
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Kisan credit card and smallholder farmers’ economic performance in eastern India: A panel data analysis by Sharma, Kriti, Kumar, Anjani, Agrawal, R.C.

“…We find that farmers’ participation in agricultural training, demonstrations and development programs encourage farmers to adopt KCC. Furthermore, KCC access increases farmers’ input usage and reduces their dependence on money lenders. …”
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Enhancing rice water productivity: insights from crop water needs and irrigation in Pakistan by Akbar, G., Sadozai, N. L., Ashraf, Muhammad

“…Optimizing irrigation scheduling, adopting advanced technologies, and using high-yielding, drought-tolerant rice varieties could reduce water losses and improve crop yields. …”
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Once bitten, twice shy? Direct and indirect effects of weather shocks on fertilizer and improved seeds use by Mulungu, Kelvin H., Manning, Dale T., Bozzola, Martina

“…These results highlight how drought shocks influence the timing and type of technology adopted in agriculture. Understanding the relative importance of these direct and indirect effects offers critical insights for policies aimed at enhancing climate change adaptation and agricultural productivity in the developing world.…”
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Unpacking the environment-gender-time poverty nexus in Bangladesh: insights from a systematic review by Sarker, Mou Rani, Puskur, Ranjitha, Sarkar, Md Abdur Rouf

“…This systematic review adopts a systems approach to investigate the climate-gender-time poverty nexus. …”
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Leveraging open-source geospatial tools for drought risk analysis: Zambia case study by Alahacoon, Niranga, Sahana, V., Amarnath, Giriraj

“…The findings underscore the importance of integrated drought monitoring, targeted interventions, and anticipatory action. By adopting these methods, Zambia can strengthen climate resilience, enhance early warning systems, and support evidence-based drought risk management.…”
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India's fertilizer policies: implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and climate change by Sapkota, Tek, Bijay, Singh

“…Balanced fertilization should be incentivized through recalibrating subsidies and adopting soil nutrient-based recommendations. Gradual liberalization of urea pricing, alongside measures to ensure the affordability of phosphatic and potassium fertilizers for small and marginal farmers, will be essential to address the food-fertilizers-climatic crisis.…”
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A human-centered agenda for multifunctional landscapes research by Rietveld, Anne, Garner, Elizabeth, Bryan, Elizabeth, Elias, Marlene, Verma, Benu, Moreno, Manuel

“…Agroecological solutions must move beyond mere technical and development objectives, to adopt a human-centered approach. This focusses on local landscape actors, prioritizing their needs, and concerns in agri-food systems. …”
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O papel dos municipios na gestao florestal: licoes dos estudos de caso by Toni, F., Kaimowitz, D.

“…Since the end of the 1990s, municipal governments are increasingly adopting a pro-environment/pro-forest discourse in Amazonia. …”
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Management for adaptation by Innes, J., Joyce, L.A., Kellomäki, S, Louman, Bastian, Ogden, A., Parrotta, J.A., Thompson, I, Ayres, M., Ong, C, Santoso, H., Sohngen, B., Wreford, A.

“…Forest managers will need to plan at multiple spatial and temporal scales and will need to adopt adaptive collaborative management as their primary form of management. …”
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Harnessing forests for climate change mitigation through REDD+: challenges and opportunities by Kanninen, M., Brockhaus, Maria, Murdiyarso, Daniel, Nabuurs, G.J.

“…Governments will need to renew their institutions and adopt new approaches to handle these challenges by including the role of forests in climate change mitigation as an integral part of their development plans and policies.…”
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Stylosanthes for pasture development. An overview of ILCA's experience in Nigeria by Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…However, until recently none of the species were adopted by the farmers because there is no tradition of growing forages in West Africa. …”
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Constraints and challenges of meeting the water requirements of livestock in Ethiopia: Cases of Lume and Siraro districts by Amenu, K., Markemann, A., Roessler, R., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Abebe, G., Zarate, A.V.

“…Industrial establishments should adopt an environment-friendly production to minimize pollution of water resources used for livestock consumption. …”
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Consultation meeting with key stakeholders by Sawadogo, Seraphine, Balima, Mariam, Ouédraogo, Issa

“…He  has  outlined  the  objectives  of  the  workshop,   that  is,  to  consult  and  discuss  among  actors  for  the  better  understanding  of  the   methodology  adopted  for  the  V1  research  project.   The  coordinator  of  the  V1  project  in  INERA  (Dr.  …”
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Characterization of local chicken production systems and their potential under different levels of management practice in Jordan by Abdelqader, A., Wollny, C.B.A., Gauly, M.

“…The main selection criterion adopted by farmers was egg production. There were positive significant correlations (p<0.001) between management level and chickens' performance. …”
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Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa by Amarnath, Giriraj, Simons, G., Sharma, Bharat R., Mohammed, Y., Gismalla, Y., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…Local solutions must be adopted in which rural people's access to new technologies increases. …”
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