Resultados de búsqueda - "Chang’an"
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Supermarkets and household food acquisition patterns in Vietnam in relation to population demographics and socioeconomic strata: Insights from public data
Publicado 2020“…Food environments in Southeast Asia's emerging economies are rapidly evolving, alongside fast-paced socioeconomic and demographic changes. The widespread expansion of supermarkets and parallel restructuring of traditional markets in Vietnam are likely to impact patterns of household food acquisition. …”
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Relative distribution, diversity, and bloodmeal sources of mosquitoes and known vectors of Rift Valley fever phlebovirus in three differing ecosystems in Bura, Tana River County, K...
Publicado 2020“…These results highlight the impact of anthropogenic changes on mosquito ecology, potentially heightening the risk of transmission and maintenance of RVF in this region.…”
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Contour bunding technology-evidence and experience in the semiarid region of southern Mali
Publicado 2022“…The improvements in crops yield and biomass, and the retention of soil nutrients positively changed farm level productivity conditions. The majority of farmers (78%) perceived higher income from the sale of crops grown on CB plots. …”
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Making smallholder agricultural production work: What we can learn from the socioeconomic and agrarian transformation through agro-well access in the North Central Province of Sri...
Publicado 2020“…Therefore, poverty levels in rural areas continued to persist, due to rural economies being largely dependent on subsistence agriculture. This scenario has changed with the recent use of groundwater to intensify dry-season cultivation in some parts of the Dry Zone. …”
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Variation in the factors associated with diet quality of children aged 6 to 23 months in low and high agroecological zones of Rongai Subcounty, Kenya
Publicado 2020“…Therefore, nutrition education and behavior change communication interventions aimed at improving child nutrition should be context-specific.…”
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Good practices for agrobiodiversity management
Publicado 2020“…For further widening the scope of good practices in the country, NAGRC, LI-BIRD and Bioversity International have generated, tested and adapted a number of good practices in four sites, Jungu, Dolakha; Ghapanpokhara, Lamjung; Hanku, Jumla; and Chippra, Humla through a project Integrating Traditional Crop Genetic Diversity into Technology: Using a Biodiversity Portfolio Approach to Buffer against Unpredictable Environmental Change in the Nepal Himalayas , commonly called as Local Crop Project (LCP) from 2014 to 2019. …”
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Whose river is it?: an assessment of livelihood and cultural water flow requirements for the Karnali Basin
Publicado 2020“…These requirements are particularly vital to consider, given ongoing efforts to tap the vast hydropower potential in Nepal through construction of major storage projects. Such projects would change the flow regime of affected rivers and potentially raise concerns that existing demands might be compromised.…”
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Global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native trees to prevent tree invasions and mitigate their negative impacts
Publicado 2020“…The global guidelines consist of eight recommendations: 1) Use native trees, or non-invasive non native trees, in preference to invasive non-native trees; 2) Be aware of and comply with international, national, and regional regulations concerning non-native trees; 3) Be aware of the risk of invasion and consider global change trends; 4) Design and adopt tailored practices for plantation site selection and silvicultural management; 5) Promote and implement early detection and rapid response programmes; 6) Design and adopt tailored practices for invasive non-native tree control, habitat restoration, and for dealing with highly modified ecosystems; 7) Engage with stakeholders on the risks posed by invasive nonnative trees, the impacts caused, and the options for management; and 8) Develop and support global networks, collaborative research, and information sharing on native and non-native trees. …”
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Tick-borne pathogens, including Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, at livestock markets and slaughterhouses in western Kenya
Publicado 2021“…Vectors of emerging infectious diseases have expanded their distributional ranges in recent decades due to increased global travel, trade connectivity, and climate change. Transboundary range shifts, arising from the continuous movement of humans and livestock across borders, are of particular disease control concern. …”
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Phenology-adjusted stress severity index to assess genotypic responses to terminal drought in field grown potato
Publicado 2020“…With global environmental conditions changing, potato clones resistant to variable water supply are needed and identifying them is a major task. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for improving N use efficiency for rice production in sub-Saharan Africa
Publicado 2019“…In rainfed production systems, differences in small-scale topography are also important which affects AEN through dynamic changes in hydrology and variations in the contents of soil organic carbon and clay. …”
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Knowledge and practice on prevention of mosquito-borne diseases in livestock-keeping and non-livestock-keeping communities in Hanoi city, Vietnam: A mixed-method study
Publicado 2021“…It is recommended that community campaigns to raise the awareness and change behavior on MBDs should be organized based on collaboration between the health sector and the veterinary sector for households with and without livestock living in central urban and peri-urban areas. …”
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Untangling outcomes of de jure and de facto community-based management of natural resources
Publicado 2017“…Comparison of governance systems that differentiate between initiatives that legitimize existing de facto regimes and systems that create new de facto regimes, investigations of new top‐down de jure regimes, and studies that further examine different approaches to changing de jure regimes to de facto regimes are avenues for further inquiry.…”
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Greening the Dark Side of Chocolate: A Qualitative Assessment to Inform Sustainable Supply Chains
Publicado 2019“…Thematic analysis of the responses revealed six main themes: (1) make better use of policies, regulations and markets to help promote sustainability; (2) improve information and data (e.g., impacts of climate change on cocoa) to inform sound interventions; (3) focus on the landscape rather than the farm-level alone and improve integration of supply chain actors; (4) promote better coordination between stakeholders and initiatives (e.g., development assistance projects and corporate sustainability efforts); (5) focus on interdependent relationships between social, environmental and economic dimensions to achieve sustainable development; and (6) engage with the private sector. …”
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Where are the women? A review and conceptual framework for addressing gender equity in charcoal value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publicado 2020“…However, while dynamics change between different contexts, women's participation tends to be significantly higher in retail, while women tend to constitute a minority in other parts of the value chain – often joining the sector in the absence of alternative livelihood opportunities. …”
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Variation in Vegetation and Ecosystem Carbon Stock Due to the Conversion of Disturbed Forest to Oil Palm Plantation in Peruvian Amazonia
Publicado 2021“…This study characterizes the vegetation structure and composition of disturbed forests and smallholder oil palm plantations and evaluates the change in ecosystem (that is, phytomass and soil) carbon stocks associated with forest-to-oil palm conversion. …”
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Enhancing the knowledge and skills of smallholders to adopt market-oriented tree management practices: lessons from Master TreeGrower training courses in Indonesia
Publicado 2019“…In effect, the MTG training appeared to change the hearts and minds of the farmers about how commercial forestry could enhance their livelihoods.…”
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Organic carbon burial and sources in soils of coastal mudflat and mangrove ecosystems
Publicado 2020“…Despite increasing recognition of the critical role of mangrove ecosystems for climate change mitigation, there is limited understanding of soil organic carbon sequestration mechanisms in undisturbed low-latitude mangroves, specifically on organic carbon burial rates and sources. …”
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Forest or oil palm plantation? Interpretation of local responses to the oil palm promises in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Publicado 2020“…Global land use/land cover change is dominated by the expansion of cash crops plantations, replacing natural ecosystems including forests. …”
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Calculation of new enteric methane emission factors for small ruminants in western Kenya highlights the heterogeneity of smallholder production systems
Publicado 2021“…EF were similar for sheep (4.4 vs 5 kg CH4/year), but lower for goats (3.7 vs 5 kg CH4/year) than those given for SR in developing countries in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Tier I) estimates. Conclusions Published estimates of EF for SR range widely across Africa. …”
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