Resultados de búsqueda - "Climatic Change"
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Sistemas de ganado lechero en Kenia: Contexto económico y perspectivas para las nuevas tecnologías forrajeras
Publicado 2023“…In this context, dairy production has an important role: it is an economic driver and a provider of quality food, but also subject to climate change. With 5,112,340 dairy cattle in 2020, Kenya has one of the largest dairy cattle herds in Africa. …”
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Spatial estimation of flood residual water cultivation (FRWC) potential for food security in Sédhiou and Tambacounda regions of Sénégal
Publicado 2023“…Nearly 90% of farming households in Senegal rely on rainfed agriculture; in recent years, climate change-induced disruptions to rainfall patterns and the ensuing depletion of water resources have had adverse effects on agricultural production, livelihoods, and food security. …”
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Drought characterization using different indices, theory of run and trend analysis in bilate river watershed, rift valley of Ethiopia
Publicado 2023“…The unprecedented climate change has increased the severity, duration, and frequency of droughts. …”
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Transition Pathway Toward Agroecology in Agroforestry Systems: Case of Kesra
Publicado 2023“…The resulting impact pathway promotes increasing resilience to market and climate change, economic autonomy, diversifying market, and promotion of local products. …”
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School meals and food systems: Rethinking the consequences for climate, environment, biodiversity, and food sovereignty
Publicado 2023“…The world is facing a nutrition crisis, and the way we produce and consume food is altering the equilibrium of our planet, causing environmental damage and biodiversity loss, and climate change which further compromises food security. …”
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Developing capacity to accelerate scaling of climate-smart agriculture in West and Central Africa: Lessons learnt from the regional capacity building initiative
Publicado 2023“…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
Publicado 2024“…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...
Publicado 2023“…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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Microbial resistance and resilience to drought and rewetting modulate soil N2O emissions with different fertilizers
Publicado 2024“…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 genetically redundant accessions in the world’s largest cassava collection
Publicado 2024“…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
Publicado 2023“…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
Publicado 2024“…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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Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian wheat belt
Publicado 2020“…Forecasting crop yields is becoming increasingly important under the current context in which food security needs to be ensured despite the challenges brought by climate change, an expanding world population accompanied by rising incomes, increasing soil erosion, and decreasing water resources. …”
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Global agricultural extension staff functional competencies
Publicado 2021“…The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) has called for “the new extensionist”(Davis and Sulaiman 2014), emphasizing the functional competencies needed to help clientele cope with complex challenges such as climate change and nutrition. Since 2015 the GFRAS “New Extensionist Learning Kit” (NELK)has been equipping extension agents globally with functional competencies through face-to-face, online, and blended learning(AFAAS 2018). …”
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Negotiating agricultural trade in a new policy environment
Publicado 2019“…The challenges to meeting the growing global food demand—population and income growth and supply uncertainties complicated by climate change, environmental pressures, and water scarcity—all point to the increasing importance of trade and the need for a more, not less, open trading system. …”
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Returns to public agricultural and rural investments in China
Publicado 2018“…Investments in agriculture and rural areas will continue to be important, as China and the world face emerging challenges amidst a changing global landscape, particularly regarding climate change, rapid urbanization, nutritional imbalances, and food safety concerns. …”
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Distributional impact of climate‑smart villages on access to savings and credit and adoption of improved climate‑smart agricultural practices in the Nyando Basin, Kenya
Publicado 2024“…In this paper we study smallholders in CSVs in Kenya who were encouraged, among others, to adopt improved livestock breeds for crossbreeding with indigenous breeds to improve their resilience to climate change and variability. The farmers were also encouraged to become part of savings and credit groups to improve smallholder access to finance. …”
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Changing trends in crop management practices and performance attributes of rice-based systems of coastal Bangladesh
Publicado 2024“…Climate change affects changes in rice-based systems of coastal Bangladesh. …”
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Management of Emerging and Invasive Pests of Food Legumes and Cereals Germplasm in CWANA Region
Publicado 2024“…Numerous reports of the invasion of transboundary pests into new areas have indicated that these pests are driven by agricultural intensification, international trade and climate change with adverse ecological, environmental and/or economic impacts. …”
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Why do farmers not irrigate all the areas equipped for irrigation? Lessons from Southern Africa
Publicado 2024“…Extreme weather events including drought, floods, and heatwaves exacerbate the existing challenges, underscoring the need to improve agricultural water management as a climate change adaptation strategy. This mixed-methods review followed the Search, Appraisal, Synthesis, and Analysis (SALSA) framework to explore the irrigation opportunities and challenges in southern Africa by critically analysing the drivers and constraints of irrigation systems in southern Africa. …”
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