Search Results - "COPE"

Changing Grassland Scenario in Developing Countries - Economical and Social Perspective by Ebro, Abule

“…Grasslands are mainly used for livestock production in developing countries although they have been facing contradictory pressures, i.e., increased demand for natural resources and animal products to cope with rising human populations. On the other, there is a need to preserve the environment and ecosystem. …”
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Rwanda district agricultural officers use national climate services to match seed to local conditions for 88,000 farmers and provide supplemental irrigation water by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Using crop water deficit calculations based on climate information, Bugesera District authorities provided supplemental irrigation water, pumped from a lake into a lined reservoir, to enable 188 farmers with supplemental irrigation to cope with prolonged dry spells.…”
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Adoption of water harvesting technologies among agro-pastoralists in semi-arid rangelands of South Eastern Kenya by Lutta, Alphayo I., Wasonga, Oliver Vivian, Nyangito, Moses M., Sudan, Falendra Kumar, Robinson, Lance W.

“…In Kenya, development and government agencies have been supporting on-farm adaptation strategies such as water harvesting conservation structures to cope with climate hazards that affect agricultural production and food security in agro-pastoral and pastoral systems. …”
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The social dilemma of microinsurance: Free-riding in a framed field experiment by Janssens, Wendy, Kramer, Berber

“…In a context of joint liability, insurance is a public good because clients can rely on contributions from group members to cope with health shocks. We hypothesize that clients have a private incentive to free-ride and forgo individual insurance even when full enrollment optimizes group welfare. …”
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Networks for resilience: The role of social capital by Bernier, Quinn, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…MAIN FINDINGS Local social capital systems can play a positive role in individual, household, and community risk-smoothing and risk-sharing practices by providing bonding, bridging, and linking capital that allow people to better cope, adapt, and transform. Impact is context specific, however, and can vary in the strength and the social group or groups covered. …”
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Resilience and social capital by Bernier, Quinn, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Central to these shocks and this coping capacity, but often underexplored, is the role of social capital. …”
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The role of collective action and property rights in climate change strategies by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…The poor have few assets and few income diversification opportunities, which severely limit their ability to cope or adapt to climate changes.…”
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Biofuel-food market interactions: A review of modeling approaches and findings by Oladosu, Gbadebo, Msangi, Siwa

“…Also, there is an ongoing discussion of changes to biofuel policy as a means to cope with severe weather-induced crop losses. Lastly, there are potential interactions between food markets and advanced biofuels, although most of the latter are expected to be produced from non-food feedstocks. …”
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How prudent are rural households in developing transition economies by Jin, Ling, Chen, Kevin Z., Yu, Bingxin, Huang, Zuhui

“…Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically faced by households during and after reforms. …”
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Shocks, groups, and networks in Bukidnon, the Philippines by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Mcniven, Scott, Godquin, Marie

“…This chapter examines the role of groups and networks in helping the poor manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks to their livelihoods in the rural Philippines. …”
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CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 5: Measuring the Effectiveness of Adaptation Insights from IFAD and GEF Projects by CGIAR Climate Change Impact Platform

“…This includes measures to cope with extreme weather, rising sea levels, and shifting agricultural zones. …”
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Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? by Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Garrett, James L.

“…They examine the effects of rising prices on food security in low-income countries and what some countries have done to cope with price fluctuations that affect the international grain markets."…”
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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Developing bioenergy: A win-win approach that can serve the poor and the environment by Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…The promise of bioenergy is that it may help cope with rising energy prices, address environmental concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and offer new income and employment to farmers and rural areas. …”
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Shocks, groups, and networks in Bukidnon, Philippines by Quisumbing, Agnes R., McNiven, Scott, Godquin, Marie

“…This study examines the role of groups and networks in helping poor Filipinos manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks. It brings together two strands of literature that examine how social capital affects economic variables and investigate the processes by which social capital formation, participation in networks and groups, and trusting behavior comes about. …”
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Knowledge and innovation for agricultural development by Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Davis, Kristin E.

“…Every day, millions of rural people who depend on agriculture confront technical, economic, social, cultural, and traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge and innovate through local experimentation and adaptation. …”
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The potential cost of a failed Doha Round by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…We show that even under normal economic conditions, policymakers modify tariffs to cope with the evolution of world markets. We then use the MIRAGE Computable General Equilibrium model to assess the potential outcome of the Doha Round, and then examine four protectionist scenarios. …”
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Is proline accumulation per se correlated with stress tolerance or is proline homeostasis a more critical issue? by Kavi Kishor, Polavarapu B., Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…Its role in the reproductive tissue is to stabilize seed set and productivity. Thus, to cope with abiotic stress, it is important to develop strategies to increase the proline sink in the reproductive tissue. …”
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Chapter twenty‐five kinetoplastida: Model organisms for simple autophagic pathways? by Denninger, V., Koopmann, R., Muhammad, K., Barth, T., Bassarak, B., Schonfeld, C., Kilunga, B.K., Duszenko, M.

“…On the other hand, these organisms have evolved a highly sophisticated machinery to escape from the different host immune‐response strategies and have learned to cope with extremely variable environmental conditions by morphological and functional reorganization of the cell. …”
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African feed resources and ruminant production from the ecological and socio-economic viewpoint by Kaufmann, Ralph R. von

“…The socio-economic systems of the arid zones have to be highly mobile and able to cope with periodic catastrophic droughts but the people's traditional response of moving to wetter zones is increasingly curtailed. …”
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Options for adapting to climate change in livestock-dominated farming systems in the greater horn of Africa by Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Mude, Andrew G., Steeg, Jeannette van de, Kinyangi, James

“…The uncertainties associated with climate change impacts call for interventions that empower communities to effectively cope with current climatic variability and to adapt to unexpected future consequences. …”
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