Search Results - "Complex systems"

Integrated crop-animal systems in Southeast Asia: current status and prospects by Sombilla, M.A., Hardy, B.

“…This relationship has now evolved into more complex systems, as influenced by various socioeconomic, environmental, and political factors. …”
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Communal irrigation systems in South-Eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability by Pittock, Jamie, Bjornlund, Henning, Stirzaker, Richard, Rooyen, Andre F. van

“…Improving sustainability of these complex systems will require: multiple interventions at different scales; investing in people and institutions as much as hardware; clarity in governments’ objectives for their smallholder irrigation schemes; appropriate business models to enable farmers; and better market linkages.…”
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CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems - Plan of Work and Budget 2020 by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…. ● Recognizing WLE’s role must be to identify and harness positive feedback loops to amplify change within complex systems. ● Actions to harness synergies between researchers and policy and development actors to carry out collaborative work.…”
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Trade-off analysis of agri-food systems for sustainable research and development by Antle, John M., Valdivia, Roberto O.

“…Tradeoff Analysis (TOA) is an approach to positive analysis that combines foresight analysis and simulation modeling tools from the relevant disciplines, including economics, in a participatory process designed to formulate and evaluate forward-looking, strategic decisions under high levels of uncertainty in complex systems. We motivate TOA with a prototype framework for the design and evaluation of public-good agricultural research for sustainable development. …”
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Innovation platforms as a tool for improving agricultural production: The case of Yatenga province, northern Burkina Faso by Teno, G., Cadilhon, Joseph J.

“…Innovation platforms are a development tool used increasingly to support the stakeholders in complex systems for agricultural development in developing countries. …”
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Target the pathways to scale out climate-smart agricultural technologies to farming communities by Mwongera, Caroline, Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi, Läderach, Peter R.D., Acosta, Mariola, Ampaire, Edidah L., Eitzinger, Anton, Lamanna, Christine, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Twyman, Jennifer, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…The process of getting climate-smart agricultural (CSA) interventions and practices to farmers is just as important as the interventions and practices. Given the complex systems in which CSA is implemented and the various CSA practices and technologies, there is no one-size-fits-all scaling pathway – so far Best-fit climate-smart agricultural scaling approaches are guided by the biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional context and attributes of the CSA technology.…”
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The why, what, who and how of scaling agricultural innovations: Key messages from the CCAFS SEA and cross-CRP Scaling Conference, Hanoi 2018 by Koerner, Jana, Woltering, Lennart, Uhlenbrock, Silke, Ohmstedt, Uwe, Zeiske, Felix, Sartas, Murat, Theissen, Arne H.

“…The conference main points include: scaling up agricultural innovations takes place in complex systems of agricultural transformation; and sustainable scaling should build into “sustainable change at scale”.…”
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The Compound Risk Framework: Assessing fragility and key drivers of food insecurity in Haiti, Mozambique and Ghana by Minoarivelo, Onivola Henintsoa, Craparo, Alessandro, Basel, Ashleigh Megan, Nguyen, Kien Tri, Ouedraogo, Yacouba, Douglas, Wesley, Melly, Brigitte, Dao, Hoa, Carneiro, Bia, Pacillo, Grazia, Laderach, Peter

“…In order to understand and address the fragility of these complex systems, we require innovative and integrated approaches to establish effective early warning measures. …”
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Market-ready innovation is selected for value chain orchestration targeting 17 million smallholders, influencing public-private development agendas, and providing a vehicle for hyp... by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…“Market-ready, noteworthy of market-creation potential” (European Commission Innovation Radar), selected by the Islamic Development Bank and endorsed by Nigeria to connect 17 million smallholders to value chain stakeholders, it also co-produced “Hyperlocal Elicitation and Understanding of Risks to Stability In Complex Systems” (HEURISTICS), the first instance of CGIAR financing by DARPA.…”
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A conceptual model of woodland use and change in Zimbabwe by Campbell, Bruce M., Frost, P., Goebel, A., Standa-Gunda, W., Mukamuri, B., Veenan, M.

“…Conceptual models represent a tool for understanding the connections between the components of complex systems, but they need to be followed by more detailed simulation modelling, to understand both the dynamics of these systems and the possible outcomes of various interventions in them.…”
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Smallholder value chains as complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework by Orr, A., Donovan, J., Stoian, D.

“…The framework combines seven common properties of complex systems: time, uncertainty, sensitivity to initial conditions, endogenous shocks, sudden change, interacting agents and adaptation. …”
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Almacenamiento de carbono y beneficios familiares obtenidos de cafetales en fincas de pequeños productores de Nicaragua by Pinoargote Chang, Miryan A.

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CIFOR’s experience with research partnership: responding to the new research challenges by Turnbull, J.W., Byron, R.N.

“…The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has adopted an interdisciplinary, complex-systems approach to address both scientific and capacity-building challenges in forestry. …”
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Perspective changes everything: Managing ecosystems from the inside out by Waltner-Toews, D., Kay, J.J., Neudoerffer, C., Gitau, T.

“…Post-normal science, complex systems theories, and the creation of collective narratives offer the best hope for making progress in this field. …”
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Ecohealth as a field: Looking forward by Saint-Charles, J., Webb, J., Sánchez, A., Mallee, H., Welden de Joode, B. van, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Commonalities highlighted by these discussions draw a portrait of a field in which human health, complex systems thinking, action, and ecosystem health are considered central issues. …”
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Participatory diagnosis and adaptive management of small-scale fisheries in the Niger River Basin by Béné, Christophe, Kodio, A., Lemoalle, J., Mills, D., Morand, P., Ovie, S., Sinaba, F., Tafida, A.

“…In a broad sense, analysis of ‘resilience’ is about the capacity of systems to adapt to shocks, recognizing that disturbance and change are integral component of complex systems. More formally, resilience analysis proposes to focus on mechanisms and processes that help systems absorbing perturbations and shocks, and coping with uncertainty and risks. …”
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Land use strategies in Pucallpa, Perú by Fujisaka, Sam

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How to build Theories of Change for transdisciplinary research: Guidance and considerations by Claus, R., Davel, R., Heykoop, C., Pinto, D., Belcher, B.M.

“…Transdisciplinary research (TDR) aims to solve problems in complex systems by drawing from a range of methods and expertise to contribute to change processes. …”
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Targeting, bias, and expected impact of complex innovations on developing-country agriculture: Evidence from Malawi by Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Roberts, Cleo, Spielman, David J.

“…Sustainable intensification and climate-smart agriculture initiatives promote complex systems-based innovations to simultaneously improve yields and conserve natural resources. …”
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Digital Twin for management of water resources in the Limpopo River Basin: a concept by Garcia Andarcia, Mariangel, Dickens, Chris, Silva, Paulo, Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Koo, Jawoo

“…The use of Digital Twins to aid decision-makers to make realtime decisions in complex systems is a growing field, with large potential for water system management. …”
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