Search Results - "Decadence"

How can process-based modeling improve peat CO2 and N2O emission factors for oil palm plantations? by Swails, E., Hergoualc'h, Kristell, Deng, J., Frolking, S., Novita, N.

“…The modeled peat onsite CO2-C EF was lower than the IPCC default (11 Mg C ha−1 yr−1) and decreased from 7.7 ± 0.4 Mg C ha−1 yr−1 in the first decade to 3.0 ± 0.2 and 1.8 ± 0.3 Mg C ha−1 yr−1 in the second and third decades of the rotation. …”
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Agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts by Berhane, Guush, Abate, Gashaw T., Wolle, Abdulazize

“…Ethiopia has made substantial efforts in the last three decades to increase agricultural productivity through modern input intensification and stimulate overall economic growth. …”
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The FAOSTAT database of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by Tubiello, F.N., Salvatore, M., Rossi, S, Ferrara, A., Fitton N, Smith, Pete

“…First, potentially large climate funding could be linked in coming decades to more precise estimates of emissions and mitigation potentials. …”
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The agriculture-nutrition nexus in North and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Nachigera Mushagalusa, Gustave, Karume, Katcho, Vwima, Stany, Francis, Judith Ann

“…The provinces of North and South Kivu, in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are deeply marked by two decades of conflict. Instability and population displacement have resulted in the destruction of the agricultural base, causing food insecurity and severe malnutrition.…”
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Taking the middle road to market by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…ACP countries have strengthened their efforts in the last decade, but most market facilities are inadequate, or non-existent - particularly in...…”
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Red alternative to Malawi s green gold by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Over the past decade, sweet pepper has been promoted widely in Malawi in an attempt to diversify the country s agricultural production. …”
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A meeting and a mandate: CTA is on the move by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Readers of Spore will no doubt recall that CTA was established almost two decades ago under the second Lomé Convention between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and the Member States of the European Community. …”
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Kelp helps by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The virtues of seaweeds have been known for ages but only in the past few decades have both production and consumption started to...…”
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Cut flower market blooms for ACP producers by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…In the past 2 decades, developing countries have expanded their export share to 24% of the global cut flower market. …”
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Yield potential and yield stability of Argentine maize hybrids over 45 years of breeding by Di Matteo, Javier. A, Ferreyra, J.M., Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro, Echarte, Laura, Andrade, Fernando Hector

“…Maize (Zea Mays L.) grain yield have increased during the last decades and there is an ample range of rates of grain yield increments reported in the literature. …”
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Plantains thrive better with perennial cultivation by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…A decade-long research programme has shown that plantains grow best in a multispecies alley cropping system, with the crop being cultivated on a perennial system. …”
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Alternatives to slash-and-burn by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Estimates indicate that more than 200 million landless people have migrated into tropical forests in recent decades, and that these numbers are increasing. Farmers who cultivate the land can no longer give it time to fully recover; fallow periods...…”
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Tea prices continue moving skyward by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Strong consumer demand and unusual climatic conditions in some of the major tea producing countries have pushed tea prices at auction centres around the world to the highest levels in decades. Between January and December 1997 the world's main...…”
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People power in São Tomé and Principe by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Increasing poverty in the country has led to a mushrooming of small community associations set up by women over the past decade especially in rural areas. Some associations support small farmers for improving production techniques and marketing....…”
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Agriculture by Mukherji, Aditi, Arndt, Claudia, Arango, Jacobo, Flintan, Fiona E., Derera, John, Francesconi, Wendy, Jones, Sarah K., Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Merrey, Douglas J., Mockshell, Jonathan, Quintero, Marcela, Mulat, Daniel Girma, Ringler, Claudia, Ronchi, Loraine, Sanchez, Manuel Ernesto Narjes, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Thilsted, Shakuntala H.

“…The Breakthrough Agenda was launched by 45 world leaders at COP 26 and is a commitment to work together this decade to accelerate innovation and deployment of clean technologies, making them accessible and affordable for all this decade. …”
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Mobile wallets and virtual currencies by Pickens, Mark, Richardson, Brian

“…For more than a decade IT advocates in the North have been predicting that cash, debit cards and credit cards will soon be replaced by mobile phones. …”
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IFDC: Improving the use of fertilizers in Third World countries by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The use of fertilizers in many Third World countries has increased greatly during the last decade. About 40% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer and 30% of its phosphate fertilizer now go to tropical or sub-tropical regions. …”
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Nitrogen-fixing cereals a step nearer by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Scientists at Nottingham University, UK, have successfully persuaded rice plants to grow nodules. For decades...…”
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Rethinking rangeland ecology by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…During the 1980s the traditional rangeland sector suffered, perhaps more than any other, from what has frequently been described as the lost decade in terms of African rural development. Ranching schemes, enclosures, boreholes, mobile veterinary...…”
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Rollin' , rollin' , rollin' ... by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…So why not make water rollable is what the inventors of the Hippo Water Roller probably thought when they launched it a decade ago, proving that reinventing the wheel can be handy...…”
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