Resultados de búsqueda - "Chang’an"

Understanding farmers’ perceptions and adaptations to climate change and variability: The case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa por Akpalu, W., Hassan, R.M., Ringler, Claudia

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Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa por Kristjanson, Patricia M., Neufeldt, Henry, Gassner, Anja, Mango, Joash, Kyazze, Florence Birungi, Desta, S., Sayula, George, Thiede, B., Förch, Wiebke, Thornton, Philip K., Coe, R.

“…We explore the relationship between farming practice changes made by households coping with the huge demographic, economic, and ecological changes they have seen in the last 10 years and household food security. …”
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Determining vegetation coverage and changes in land use under the Quesungual slash and mulch agroforestry system por Baquera, N., Herrick, Jeffrey E., Ayarza, Miguel Angel

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Contemporary challenges of participatory field research for land use change analyses: examples from Kenya por Smucker, T., Campbell, D.J., Olson, J., Wangui, Elizabeth Edna

“…This article discusses the evolution of participatory methods and their benefits and pitfalls in contributing to land use and land cover change (LULCC) analyses. Participation has become a practical means of developing a more complete assessment of societal change by bringing local people’s narratives and understandings to bear on the interpretation of data collected using more extractive methods, such as the household survey, or data collected remotely, such as satellite images. …”
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Alkalinity induced changes in mobilization efficiency seedling vigour amylase and protease activity in rice genotypes por Singh, U., Ram, P.C., Singh, S.P., Prasad, B.

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Effect of climate change on livestock production and livelihood of pastoralists in selected pastoral areas of Borana, Ethiopia por Yilma, Z., Haile, Aynalem, Emmanuelle, G.

Materias: “…climate change…”
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Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate por Thornton, Philip K.

Materias: “…climate change…”
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Actor-led change for efficient agrifood systems: Handbook of the participatory actor-based CADIAC approach por Bourgeois, R., Herrera, D.

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Ensemble yield simulations: crop and climate uncertainties, sensitivity to temperature and genotypic adaptation to climate change por Challinor, Andrew J., Wheeler, Tim, Hemming D, Upadhyaya, Hari D.

“…Estimates of the response of crops to climate change rarely quantify the uncertainty inherent in the simulation of both climate and crops. …”
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Ecological consequences of controlling a livestock disease: Changes in land-use and vegetative cover in Ethiopia por Reid, Robin S., Wilson, C.J., Kruska, Russell L., Swallow, B.M.

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Effects of trypanosome inferction and postpartum liveweight change on resumption of reproduction activity in N'Dama cows por Agyemang, K., Little, D.A., Mattioli, R., Sonko, E.W., Janneh, L.

“…The interaction between liveweight change and trypanosome infection status was not signficant. …”
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Effect of change in body weight and condition during the dry season on capacity for work of draft oxen por Bartholomew, P.W., Khibe, T., Little, D.A., Ba, S.

“…Work oxen supplemented at different levels during a feeding period of 3 months, were divided into 3 groups of average weight change -25, +35 and +70kg and worked under loadings of either 7.5 or 12.5 kgf/100kg of liveweight for 2 weeks, in order to assess the impact of dry season supplementation on capacity for work. …”
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The livestock-climate-poverty nexus: A discussion paper on ILRI research in relation to climate change por Thornton, Philip K., Steeg, Jeannette van de, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Herrero, Mario

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Property rights and land use change: Implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, southern Ethiopia por Kamara, A., Kirk, M., Swallow, B.M.

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Crop productivity and the global livestock sector: Implications for land use change and greenhouse gas emissions por Havlík, Petr, Valin, Hugo, Mosnier, Aline, Obersteiner, Michael, Baker, J.S., Herrero, Mario, Rufino, Mariana C., Schmid, Erwin

“…The livestock sector accounts for 30% of global land area and is a major driver of land use change (Geist and Lambin 2002). Steinfeld et al (2006) calculated that deforestation due to the expansion of pasture and feed crops was responsible for 8% of total anthropogenic Co2 emissions. …”
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Governance and Management Review 2013: CGIAR Research Program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security por Robinson, M.K., Flood, BP

“…The CIAT Board of Trustees commissioned a governance and management review of the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The review had been included in the original program plan for CCAFS and was timed to provide an early but informative assessment of governance and management as these occur within a CRP and in relationship to the center that serves as the fiduciary for the program. …”
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Using crop diversity to adapt to climate change: highlighting the importance of the Plant Treaty's policy support por Halewood, Michael, Mathur, P.N., Fadda, Carlo, Otieno, G.

“…This brief highlights efforts in East Africa and in Asia, Pacific and Oceania (APO), supported by two internationally funded projects, to develop user-friendly tools and methods to identify germplasm of populations/varieties/species that are adapted to the changing climates of areas where farmers’ cropping systems are already under stress. …”
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Assessment of rainwater management practices and land use land cover changes in the Meja watershed of Ethiopia por Ayana, B., McCartney, Matthew P., Zemadim, Birhanu, Langan, Simon J., Sharma, Bharat R., Balemi, T.

“…The existing RWM interventions, their extent and the nature of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) conditions were mapped and evaluated. …”
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African agriculture and climate change: new detailed studies to support national agricultural policy makers por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…A CCAFS-supported project led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and undertaken in collaboration with African partners, is exploring the relationship between changing weather patterns and agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Assessment of the impacts from WSI on agricultural activities; and how changes in agricultural activities are affecting WSI por MK17 Project Team

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