Search Results - "Decadence"

Living dangerously on the edge by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The last two explosive decades have seen tremendous changes to the fragile ecological balance of coasts....…”
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Medium term estimates of demand-based food aid reguirements and their variability by Ezekiel, Hannan

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Application of genetic engineering for control of bacterial wilt disease of enset, Ethiopia's sustainability crop by Merga, I.F., Tripathi, L., Hvoslef-Eide, A.K., Gebre, E.

“…Moreover, the absence of effective chemicals against the disease has left farmers without means to combat bacterial wilt for decades. Genetic engineering has been the alternative approach to develop disease resistant plant materials in other crops where traditional breeding tools are ineffective. …”
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Rural livelihoods, food security and rural transformation under climate change by Thornton, Philip K., Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Campbell, Bruce M., Mercado, Leida, Shackleton, Sheona, Kavikumar, KS

“…Despite decades of attention to agricultural development, food security and rural poverty, poverty and food insecurity remain, especially amongst rural dwellers in Asia, Africa and Central America. …”
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Emergence of rice yellow mottle virus in eastern Uganda: Recent and singular interplay between strains in East Africa and in Madagascar by Ochola, D., Issaka, S., Rakotomalala, M., Pinel Galzi, A., Ndikumana, I., Hubert, J., Hébrard, E., Séré, Y., Tusiime, Geoffrey, Fargette, D.

“…Unexpectedly, all isolates from the affected area belonged to a single strain (named S4ug), a strain that is different from the S4lv strain that has been prevalent in the Lake Victoria basin for the past five decades. Interestingly, the S4ug strain is most closely related at the genomic level (except ORF1) to the strain present in Madagascar (S4mg), 2000km away. …”
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FTA Highlight No.6 – Wild Meat by Nasi, R., Fa, J.E., Vliet, N. van, Coad, L.M., Pinedo Vasquez, M., Swamy, V., Tien, M.L.

“…This publication presents some of the key FTA outputs on wild meat; over the last decade these efforts have contributed to inform science, policy and practice.…”
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The Dilemma of Scale: competing imperatives for global restoration by Sigman, E.

“…An outpouring of SoER research has substantively shaped the global restoration agenda and will continue to play a critical role as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration unfolds. In this article, I argue that global restoration ambitions are limited by two competing imperatives in SoER literature. …”
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Food systems, food safety and health by Grace, Delia

“…Our world is not well fed and while hunger has been decreasing over the last decades, communicable and non-communicable diseases are trending upwards. …”
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What do we know about the future of maize value chains in a changing climate and agri-food system? by Tesfaye, Kindie, Sonder, Kai, Pequeno, Diego, Hartley, Faaiqa, Gbegbelegbe, Sika

“…. • The feed demand for maize is expected to grow faster in the coming few decades largely driven by rapid economic growth and diet shifts in highly populated regions in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. • Meeting the growing demand for maize will require dramatic increases in production, marketing, utilization, and resilience of maize-based farming systems. • While the supply of maize over the coming decades will be constrained by climate change, and limited availability of land and water, technological and policy innovations will bring new opportunities. • The combined challenges of increasing food demand, persisting poverty and malnutrition, natural resource depletion, and climate change will require the world to double the productivity and boost the sustainability and resilience of maize-based farming systems within planetary boundaries.…”
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Kenya's agrifood system: Overview and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Smart, Jenny, Thurlow, James

“…The 2010s were a decade of strong economic development in Kenya. Gross domestic product (GDP)—an indicator of the economy’s size—expanded by an average of 5 percent per year (KNBS 2022). …”
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Modelling the costs of constraining the transition to renewable energy in South Africa by Merven, Bruno, Hartley, Faaiqa, Robinson, Sherman, Arndt, Channing

“…For decades cheaper and easily available fossil fuels have underpinned the energy system of South Africa and inhibited the potential for achieving a sustainable low carbon economy. …”
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Recent developments in the conduct of Latin American agricultural research: Paper prepared for the International Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, Beijing, Novembe... by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G.

“…Following two decades of increasing investments, growth in public agricultural research spending in Latin America stalled during the 1980s, reflecting shrinking government contributions and declining donor support in the midst of general economic crises. …”
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The climate crisis is a water crisis by Nepal, Santosh

“…A 2017 report from the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology reveals that Nepal has experienced a maximum temperature increase of 2.2°C over the last four decades, at a rate of 0.56°C per decade. The future appears even bleaker, with a 2019 Ministry of Forests and Environment report predicting an average annual temperature rise of 1.7 to 3.6°C by the end of the century under various scenarios. …”
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Prospects for India's cereal supply and demand to 2020 by Bhalla, G. S., Hazell, Peter B. R., Kerr, John M.

“…This study and the rest of IFPRI’s 2020 research have consistently pointed to the vital link between agricultural policies and prospects for production growth in the next two decades. (from Forward by Per Pinstrup-Andersen)…”
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Prospects for India's cereal supply and demand to 2020 by Bhalla, G. S., Hazell, Peter B. R., Kerr, John M.

“…This study and the rest of IFPRI’s 2020 research have consistently pointed to the vital link between agricultural policies and prospects for production growth in the next two decades. (from Forward by Per Pinstrup-Andersen)…”
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Balancing agricultural and environmental water needs in China: Alternative scenarios and policy options by Cai, Ximing, Ringler, Claudia

“…The last two decades have been marked by a dramatic increase in global attention to the concept of governance, especially in relation to the effective and sustainable management of natural resources. …”
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From Pixels to Planting Dates: Using the AgWise Remote-sensing Framework to Automate Maize Planting-date Detection by Dastidar, Payel Ghosh, Srivastava, Amit, Leroux, Louise

“…The workflow ensures objective and reproducible efficient monitoring over wide geographic areas, as well as annual trend studies that span decades. This automation not only eliminates human labour and subjectivity, but it also allows for near-real-time insights necessary for policy planning, early warning systems, and adaptive crop management.…”
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Economic crisis, small-scale agriculture, and forest cover change in Southern Cameroon by Sunderlin, William D., Ndoye, O., Bikie, H., Laporte, N., Mertens, B., Pokam, J.

“…The principal findings are: (1) the rate of deforestation increased significantly in the decade after the 1986 onset of the crisis, as compared to the decade prior to the crisis; (2) the main proximate causes of this change were sudden rural population growth and a shift from production of cocoa and coffee to plantain and other food crops; and (3) the main underlying causes were macroeconomic shocks and structural adjustment policies that led to rural population growth and farming system changes. …”
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Politik ekonomi subsektor perkebunan kelapa sawit di Indonesia by Casson, A.

“…Much of this growth has occured in the last decade and posed a significant threat to Indonesia's existing forest cover. …”
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Technical Report of gender and climate change project in Kyengeza and Gosola villages in Lwanda Sub county, Rakai district by Annuciate, N., Namazzi, C., Kayiwa, S., Kirangwa, L.

“…In Uganda, recent climate trends show that the mean annual temperatures have increased by 1.3 C since 1960, with an average rate of 0.28 C per decade (Oxfam, 2008). Recent trends in precipitation indicate that annual rainfall has decreased at an average of 3.4 mm per month and 3.5% per decade (McSweeney, et al., 2008). …”
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