Resultados de búsqueda - "Chang’an"

Developing capacity to accelerate scaling of climate-smart agriculture in West and Central Africa: Lessons learnt from the regional capacity building initiative por Kpadonou, Gbedehoue Esaie, Ganyo, Kyky Désiré, Segnon, Alcade C., Zakari, Sissou, Lamien, Niéyidouba, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Specifically, the training program consisted of four interlinked modules: (i) the climate system, its components, and how its variations affect the earth system, (ii) how to analyze an agricultural system in the face of climate change, (iii) the concept of climate smart agriculture and how to evaluate agricultural practices, technologies and innovations and (iv) how to design, write and implement CSA projects and how to integrate CSA in ongoing projects. …”
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Genotype vs Environment: the ICARDA durum wheat breeding program for African dryland cultivation por Bassi, Filippo, Gautam, Amit, Sall, Amadou T., El Haddad, Noureddine, Zaim, Meryam, Kabbaj, Hafssa, Bousselham, Houda, Jabbour, Yaman, Ortiz, Rodomiro, Amri, Ahmed, Govind, Ajit, Kehel, Zakaria, Visioni, Andrea, Baum, Michael

“…However, to meet the challenge of climate change and demographic increase, this rate needs to be doubled in the years to come. …”
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Innovahubs: In-depth local actor and stakeholder analysis. Stakeholders’ assessment of the dynamic relationships and recommendations for sustainable scaling from within the Innovah... por Diaz Espinosa, Anabell, Valencia, Eva, Woltering, Lennart, García Santiago, Jorge O., Martínez, Oscar, Leal Gonzalez, Abel J., Borrayo, Andrea, Loon, Jelle van

“…In addition, within the Innovahubs, one of the activities to be carried out is the scaling up of innovations (technologies or practices) that can better respond to the AgriLAC Initiative's impact areas of: a) Nutrition, Health and Food Security; b) Poverty Reduction, Livelihoods and Employment; c) Gender Equality, Youth and Social Inclusion; d) Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation; e) Environmental Health and Biodiversity. …”
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Preventing and controlling zinc deficiency across the life course: A call to action por Lowe, Nicola M., Hall, Andrew G., Broadley, Martin R., Foley, Jennifer, Boy, Erick, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.

“…This narrative review covers recent developments in our understanding of zinc's role in health; the impact of the changing climate and global context on zinc intake; novel functional biomarkers showing promise for monitoring population-level interventions; and solutions for improving population zinc intake. …”
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Microbial resistance and resilience to drought and rewetting modulate soil N2O emissions with different fertilizers por Xu, Xiaoya, Liu, Yaowei, Tang, Caixian, Yang, Yihan, Yu, Lei, Lesueur, Didier, Herrmann, Laetitia, Di, Hongjie, Li, Yong, Li, Qinfen, Xu, Jianming

“…Our results highlighted the importance of microbial resistance and resilience in modulating N2O emissions, which help to better understand the dominant way of N2O emissions, and consequently make efficient mitigation strategies under the global climate change.…”
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Identifying opportunities for sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in the Mid-Hills of Nepal by optimal use of water in agriculture por Veenings, Lois, Cossu, Alessandra, Shrestha, Nirman, Adhikari, Tikaram, López Ridaura, Santiago, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…The objective was to identify opportunities and trade-offs at the farm level associated with changes in farm management related to water use.…”
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Development of an environmental flow implementation and monitoring tool: enhancing the usability of the PROBFLO e-flows framework in the Limpopo Catchment por O'Brien, G. C., Wade, M., Bembe, M. J., Slinda, D., Mashego, T.

“…The project, conducted in two river basins in southern Africa, focuses on creating a user-friendly digital Application Tool, integrated with a high-resolution 3D model and modern sensors, to monitor changes in river ecosystems post eflow implementation. …”
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Identifying genetically redundant accessions in the world’s largest cassava collection por Carvajal-Yepes, Monica, Ospina, Jessica Alejandra, Aranzales Rondón, Ericson, Velez-Tobon, Monica, Correa-Abondano, Miguel, Manrique-Carpintero, Norma Constanza, Wenzl, Peter

“…Crop diversity conserved in genebanks facilitates the development of superior varieties, improving yields, nutrition, adaptation to climate change and resilience against pests and diseases. …”
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Assessment of the effectiveness and efficacy of seed villages in India por Bhuvana, Narayana Rao, Dominic, Ditty Maria, Mittal, Nimisha, Sulaiman V, Rasheed, Puskur, Ranjitha, Tenneti, Suchaita

“…With limited arable land and increasing population, India faces a unique challenge in ensuring food and nutrition security, especially as climate change intensifies. Access to high quality seeds of improved crop varieties is critical for enhancing agricultural production and productivity and ensuring food security. …”
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry: a holistic approach to improve indigenous chicken production focusing on resilience to Newcastle disease por Zhou, Huaijun, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Dekkers, J., Gallardo, R., Kayang, B.B., Kelly, T., Msoffe, P.L.M., Muhairwa, A., Mushi, J., Naaziee, A., Otsyina, H.R., Ouma, Emily A., Lamont, S.J.

“…Small-scale poultry production in Africa plays a significant role in alleviating malnutrition and poverty in rural communities. Global climate change and infectious poultry disease such as Newcastle disease (ND) have had tremendous negative impact on poultry production and health due to limited biosecurity, cold chain, and inadequate extension service. …”
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Strengthening agricultural extension training: Process skills and competency gaps in undergraduate agricultural extension curriculum in South Africa por von Maltitz, Lindie, Davis, Kristin E., Suvedi, Murari, Chanza, Charity, Agwu, Ekwe Agwu, Sasidhar, P. V. K., Ukamaka, Mabel Dimelu, Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda, Anugwa, Ifeoma Quinette, Tchuwa, Frank

“…What are the critical job skills and core competencies required of extension workers to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate extension work in today’s changing context? 3. Does the undergraduate curriculum in extension education include education and/or training on these job skills or core competencies? …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: The rising costs of diets and declining purchasing power of casual wage laborers: June 2020 - February 2023 por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…We assess changes in food prices and purchasing power of casual wage laborers based on large-scale surveys of food vendors (fielded from June 2020 until February 2023) and households in rural and urban areas and in all state/regions of Myanmar. …”
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Estimating the cost and affordability of healthy diets: How much do methods matter? por Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle, Alderman, Harold

“…Our proposed methodological improvements significantly change country, regional and global estimates of healthy diet affordability, though not the headline conclusion that several billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. …”
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Prospects of crop insurance for sustenance of farmers' livelihood during GM cotton crop failure in Indian Punjab por Kaur, Sandeep, Singh, Harpreet, Roy, Devesh, Singh, Hardeep

“…Therefore, this paper attempts to gauge the likely impact of the PMFBY on Punjab cotton farmers and assess the changes needed for greater uptake and effectiveness of PMFBY.The authors have conducted a primary survey to conduct this study. …”
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Assessing the development impacts of bio-innovations: The case of genetically modified maize and cassava in Tanzania por Benfica, Rui, Zambrano, Patricia, Chambers, Judith A., Falck-Zepeda, José B.

“…Finally, the high variation of results across scenarios, and the significant effects of the high adoption/high yield change scenario, suggest that efforts will be critical to ensure the realization of the maximization of adoption rates while ensuring the materialization of the yield growth potential of the GM varieties through the efficient use of technical recommendations on crop production management, and the introduction of the right investments and policy incentives.…”
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Do agricultural projects help smallholders transition to better livelihood strategies? por Hazell, Peter B. R., Timu, Anne G., Savastano, Sara, Massotti, Piero

“…Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted farm populations to improve their on-farm productivity within a “theory of change” that leads to improvements in their welfare. …”
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Investing in dates, poultry, olive, and medicinal and aromatic plants value chains in Egypt: Assessing the economy-wide impacts por El-Kersh, Mohamed, Atef, Mohamed, Ali, Alaa, Farghaly, Lobna, Abderabuh, Zainab, Abdelradi, Fadi, Abdou, Khaled, Abdelaziz, Ehab, Faris, Victor, Nasr, Saleh, Nassar, Yasmin, Nassar, Zaki, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…The Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) economywide model is used to capture linkages between economic sectors, households, and rural-urban economies and to measure changes in economic growth, household welfare, and employment within and beyond the agri-food system. …”
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Rice productivity in Myanmar: Assessment of the 2021 monsoon and outlook for 2022 por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…While the rice sector has been a source of stability in the country, the situation for future crop seasons is however concerning given further increases in input prices (especially fertilizer), the overall reduced profitability of rice farming, the reduced coping strategies remaining for rice farmers, and currency policy changes by the military government.…”
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Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in Sudan por Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelfattah, Lina Alaaeldin, Breisinger, Clemens, Siddig, Khalid

“…We also find that markets in production surplus states are less responsive to price changes in neighboring markets than those located in cereal deficit states. …”
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Resilience in maternal and child nutrition outcomes in a refugee-hosting community in Cameroon: A quasi-experimental study por Tatah, Lambed, Nkunzimana, Tharcisse, Foley, Louise, de Brauw, Alan, Rodriguez-Llanes, Jose Manuel

“…Controlled comparisons showed no evidence of an association between changes in nutrition outcomes and the presence of refugees. …”
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