Search Results - "Climatic Change"

Accuracy of farmer-generated yield estimations of common bean in decentralised on-farm trials in sub–Saharan Africa by Nabateregga, Mabel, Dorado-Betancourt, Hugo, Ø Solberg, Svein, Van Etten Etten, Jacob, van Heerwaarden, Joost, Gregory, Theresia, De Sousa, Kaue

“…Achieving this will necessitate the development of high-yielding locally adapted crop varieties to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Despite advancements in crop improvement, varietal turnover in smallholder farms remains notably low. …”
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What do we know about the future of water in food systems? by Ringler, Claudia, McCartney, Matthew P., Hafeez, Mohsin

“…At the same time, water availability is becoming increasingly uncertain due to climate extremes, long-term climate change, pollution, and land use changes such as deforestation and wetland degradation. …”
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Adoption without gains, and vice-versa: Exploring the disconnect between improved bean varieties and yield in Central America and Haiti through the lens of seed systems by Reyes, Byron, Maredia, Mywish K., Martínez, José María, Gomez, Lorena, Rosas, Juan Carlos, Miranda, Angela

“…Over the past 30 years, R&D has focused on breeding resilient bean varieties to withstand climate change, pests, and diseases. However, the success of these innovations depends not only on variety development but also on efficient seed systems that deliver them to farmers—a crucial yet often overlooked factor in maxi-mizing agricultural R&D benefits. …”
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Beyond the bids: Lessons from farmers' reflections on Vickrey auctions of sweetpotato vines in Rwanda by Kilwinger, Fleur B.M., Spielman, David J., Almekinders, Conny J.M., Rajendran, Srinivasulu, van Dam, Ynte K.

“…Context The use of high-quality seed can significantly enhance nutrition, food security, poverty alleviation, and climate change adaptation in rural farming communities. …”
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Optimizing soybean variety selection for the Pan-African Trial network using factor analytic models and envirotyping by Araujo, M.S., Pavan, J.P., Stella, A.A., Fregonezi, B.F., Lima, N.F., Leles, E.P., Santos, M.F., Goldsmith, P., Chigeza, G., Diers, B.W., Pinheiro, J.B.

“…Soybean is a global food and industrial crop, however, climate change significantly affects its grain yield. …”
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Aligning Yam market segments with breeding targets in Côte d'Ivore: A value chain perspective by Diby, N'Nan A. Sylvie, Mobio, Aubin Jacob, Kouassi, Hermann Antonin, Kanon, Landry Alban, Deffan, Prudence Kahndo, Ehounou, Emmanuel, Dibi, Evrard Konan, Tran, Thierry, Kouakou, Amani M., Dufour, Dominique, Mbéguié-A-Mbéguié, Didier

“…However, the sector faces challenges: population growth, the emergence of competing cash crops such as cashew, emerging diseases, and climate change. Ensuring a year-round supply of quality yams to the market requires innovative approaches, grounded in a clear understanding of production systems, marketing structures, and market segmentation. …”
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Evaluation d’impact des programmes radiophoniques de AICCRA-Sénégal: Connaissances, pratiques agro-écologiques et revenus by Thiaw, Moussa, Diouf, Mouhamed Abdoul, Worou, Nadine, Camara, Boubacar, Wane, Abdrahmane

“…This study demonstrates that the AICCRA-supported community radio initiative has significantly enhanced the resilience of producers to climate change by increasing their access to relevant information, positively altering their agro-ecological practices, and diversifying their income sources.…”
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Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India by Anantha K.H., Garg, K.K., Venkataradha, A., Barik, Rashmi Ranjan, Singh, Ramesh, Padhee, K.P., Nayak, M., Dhal, N.C., Arthanari, P., Jat, Mangi L.

“…These changes have been accompanied by negative externalities such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, poor retention ability of the landscape and heavy land degradation. …”
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Performance and cost-benefit evaluation of farmer-managed solar-powered groundwater irrigation in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR: interim results from the first year of operation of fou... by Douangsavanh, Somphasith, Pavelic, Paul, Kotchofa, Pacem, Dubois, Mark

“…This system is managed by local farmers and was designed to help small-scale farmers overcome water shortages, improve crop productivity, and build resilience to climate change. To evaluate its effectiveness, this study reviews the system’s performance after one year of operation and a full crop cycle, including broader benefits such as environmental sustainability and a basic financial cost-benefit analysis. …”
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Full circle, but a different world: Reflections on agricultural and rural development in a radically transforming aid and development context by Omamo, Steven Were

“…Meanwhile, the major global challenges demanding solutions – climate change, economic volatility and conflict – imply the need for resources, analysis and operational capacity at levels never before mobilised. …”
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Thriving against the odds through positive deviant behavior: technology adoption and entrepreneurship among dairy farmers in Addis Ababa and Oromia in Ethiopia by Nyokabi, N., Gemechu, G., Phelan, L., Lindahl, Johanna F., Mihret, A., Berg, S., Wood, J.L.N., Moore, H.L.

“…We observed that PD dairy farmers had adopted and/or modified a variety of technologies to overcome context-specific challenges faced, such as seasonal feed shortages exacerbated by climate change, reduced land size and availability of land for grazing and waste disposal, and restrictions on farming resulting from the development of urban areas. …”
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Indonesia: options and challenges for fair and efficient payment distribution mechanisms by Noordwijk, Meine van, Purnomo, H., Peskett, L., Setiono, B.

“…This may provide benefits of three types: a) shared responsibility for reducing a major driver of global climate change, b) financial payments and co-investment that exceed the economic opportunities foregone from decisions to maintain carbon stocks, and c) co-benefits through the other environmental service functions that well-maintained forests can provide. …”
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Changing fire regimes in the Cote d’Ivoire savanna: implications for greenhouse emissions and carbon sequestration by Moussa, K., Bassett, T.J., Nkem, J.

“…West African savannas are depicted in the climate change literature as the “burn center” of the planet. …”
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A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus beans by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Khoury, Colin K., Jarvis, Andy, Debouck, Daniel G., Guarino, Luigi

“…A more detailed prioritization of taxa and geographic areas for collection can be achieved by including in the analysis predictive threat factors, such as climate change or habitat destruction, or by adding additional prioritization filters, such as the degree of relatedness to cultivated species (i.e. ease of use in crop breeding). …”
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The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture by Pretty, Jules N., Sutherland, W.J., Ashby, Jacqueline A., Auburn, J., Baulcombe, D.C., Bell, M., Bentley, J.W., Bickersteth, S., Brown, K., Burke, J., Campbell, H., Chen, Kevin Z., Crowley, E.L., Crute, I., Dobbelaere, D.A.E., Edwards-Jones, G., Funes-Monzote, F., Godfray, H. Charles J., Griffon, M., Gypmantisiri, P., Haddad, Lawrence, Halavatau, S., Herren, H., Holderness, M., Izac, A.M.N., Jones, M., Koohafkan, P., Lal, R., Lang, T., McNeely, J., Mueller, A., Nisbett, N., Noble, A.D., Pingali, Prabhu L., Pinto, Y., Rabbinge, Rudy, Ravindranath, N.H., Rola, A., Roling, N., Sage, C., Settle, W., Sha, J.M., Shiming, L., Simons, T., Smith, Pete, Strzepek, Kenneth M., Swaine, H., Terry, Eugene R., Tomich, Thomas P., Toulmin, C., Trigo, Eduardo, Twomlow, Stephen, Vis, J.K., Wilson, J., Pilgrim, S.

“…To meet the expected demand for food without significant increases in prices, it has been estimated that we need to produce 70-100 per cent more food, in light of the growing impacts of climate change, concerns over energy security, regional dietary shifts and the Millennium Development target of halving world poverty and hunger by 2015. …”
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Assessment of innovations for sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers in response to changing climates in semi-arid Zimbabwe through farmer perceptions by Musiyiwa K, Filho WL, Nyamangara, Justice, Harris D

“…Negative impacts of climate change and variability are mainly projected for smallholder production. …”
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Breeding annual grain legumes for sustainable agriculture: New methods to approach complex traits and target new cultivar ideotypes by Duc, G., Agrama, H., Bao, S., Berger, J., Bourion, V., Ron, A.M. de, Gowda, C.L.L., Mikic, A., Millot, D., Singh, K.B., Tullu, A., Vandenberg, A., Vaz Patto, Maria C, Warkentin, T.D., Zong, X.

“…Although yield and total biomass produced by annual legumes remain major objectives for breeders, other issues such as environment-friendly, resource use efficiency including symbiotic performance, resilient production in the context of climate change, adaptation to sustainable cropping systems (reducing leaching, greenhouse gas emissions and pesticide residues), adaptation to diverse uses (seeds for feed, food, non-food, forage or green manure) and finally new ecological services such as pollinator protection, imply the need for definition of new ideotypes and development of innovative genotypes to enhance their commercialization. …”
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Closing system-wide yield gaps to increase food production and mitigate GHGs among mixed crop–livestock smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa by Henderson, Benjamin B., Godde, Cécile M., Medina-Hidalgo, D., Wijk, Mark T. van, Silvestri, Silvia, Douxchamps, Sabine, Stephenson, E., Power, B., Rigolot, Cyrille, Cacho, O., Herrero, Mario

“…We also assess their potential to increase food production and reduce the GHG emission intensity of their products, as a result of closing these yield gaps.We use stochastic frontier analysis to construct separate production frontiers for each site, based on 2012 survey data prepared by the International Livestock Research Institute for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security program. …”
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Nutrition challenges ahead by Chen, J., Fewtrell, M., Kennedy, G., Naska, A., Riediger, K., Roos, N., Sanders, T., Tuohy, K.M., Valtuena-Martinez, S.

“…At a global level, food security, food sustainability and decreasing the impact of food production on climate change are of paramount importance. Decreasing the prevalence of obesity and related disorders, which may coexist with selected micronutrient deficiencies, is a major challenge for wealthy countries; for developing countries and rural food systems, fighting protein–energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies is a priority. …”
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Input-output model-based water footprint indicators to support IWRM in the irrigated drylands of Uzbekistan, Central Asia by Bekchanov, Maksud, Lamers, John P.A., Bhaduri, Anik, Lenzen, M., Tischbein, B.

“…Water scarcity due to increasing water demand triggered by population growth and irrigation expansion versus a limited and increasingly variable water supply as a consequence of climate change is presently one of the global challenges. …”
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