Search Results - "Decadence"

The circles of life (6) Get on your cycle by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…If we look for one word around which agriculture and rural development in ACP countries could revolve in the first decades of the new millennium, it could be...…”
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Clean shrimps after all by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…After a boom decade in the 1980s, world production of cultivated shrimp has fallen sharply due to intensive and polluting methods of cultivation, which encourage diseases (see Spore 82, page 4 & 5). …”
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Women's advances in agriculture by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Women also sustain more than half of ACP agriculture. In recent decades, much has been achieved in empowering women within the agricultural sector. …”
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Widening geographic range of Rift Valley fever disease clusters associated with climate change in East Africa by Situma, S., Nyakarahuka, L., Omondi, E., Mureithi, M., Mweu, M.M., Muturi, M., Mwatondo, A., Dawa, J., Konongoi, L., Khamadi, S., Clancey, E., Lofgren, E., Osoro, E., Ngere, I., Breiman, R.F., Bakamutumaho, B., Muruta, A., Gachohi, J., Oyola, Samuel O., Njenga, M.K., Singh, D.

“…Long-term climatic trends showed a significant decadal increase in annual mean temperature (0.12–0.3°C/decade, p<0.05), associated with decreasing rainfall in arid and semi-arid lowlands but increasing rainfall trends in highlands (p<0.05). …”
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The rural-urban transformation in Ethiopia by Dorosh, Paul A., Schmidt, Emily

“…Although Ethiopia's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade and urbanization is increasing, the country's economic and spatial transformation has only just begun. …”
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Implications of changes in water stress and precipitation extremes for cocoa production in Côte D’Ivoire and Ghana by Obahoundje, Salomon, Akpoti, Komlavi, Zwart, Sander J., Tilahun, Seifu A., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…The results revealed a significant reduction in total annual precipitation (PRCPTOT), in the last three decades, with the greatest decline in the 1991–2000 and 2011–2022 periods. …”
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Planering för ekologisk restaurering : en analys av Naturvårdverkets riktlinjer om regionala handlingsplaner för grön infrastruktur by Mayr, Lisa

“…I mars 2019 förklarade FN:s generalförsamling det kommande decenniet som The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration med ambitionen att skala upp restaureringen av skadade ekosystem på en global nivå. …”

The future of Blue Carbon science by Macreadie, P.I., Anton, A., Raven, J.A., Beaumont, N., Connolly, R.M., Friess, D.A., Kelleway, J.J., Kennedy, H., Kuwae, T., Lavery, P.S., Lovelock, C.E., Smale, D.A., Apostolaki, E.T., Atwood, T.B., Baldock, J., Bianchi, T.S., Chmura, G.L., Eyre, B.D., Fourqurean, J.W., Hall-Spencer, Jason M., Huxham, M., Hendriks, I.E., Krause-Jensen, D., Laffoley, D., Luisetti, T., Marbà, N., Masque, P., McGlathery, K.J., Megonigal, J.P., Murdiyarso, D., Russell, B.D., Santos, R., Serrano, O., Silliman, B.R., Watanabe, K., Duarte, Carlos M.

“…The term Blue Carbon (BC) was first coined a decade ago to describe the disproportionately large contribution of coastal vegetated ecosystems to global carbon sequestration. …”
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Malawi stories of change in nutrition: Overview by Harris, Jody, Chalemera, Jacqueline, Nowa, Mphatso, Saha, Devanik, Mhango, Brian, Lupafaya, Phindile, Museka Saidi, Tendai, Northcote, Callum, Bhaiji, Rashida, Roschnik, Natalie

“…Malawi has made significant progress in improving nutrition outcomes in the past decades. Despite this, the rates of stunting and anaemia remain high and overweight and obesity amongst women is rising. …”
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Africa in the global agricultural economy in 2030 and 2050 by Sulser, Timothy B., Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Islam, Shahnila, Robinson, Sherman, Wiebe, Keith D., Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a solid 2 percent per year in the decade leading up to 2012 across all of Africa, with western Africa leading at more than 4 percent growth (ReSAKSS database 2015). …”
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Tobacco earnings up in smoke by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…During 2000, they sank to their lowest level in a decade, causing great concern among African growers. …”
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Spore salutes Mr. Soares by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…He has worked in agriculture for several decades; first in his native Azores Islands, where he ran rural radio services,...…”
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When can legacy soil data be used, and when should new data be collected instead? by Hendriks, C.M.J., Stoorvogel, J.J., Lutz, F., Claessens, Lieven

“…Soil data requirements and soil data acquisition tools and techniques have changed over recent decades. In general, soil scientists can: i) collect new data in the field and ignore the data that are available, ii) rely entirely on legacy soil data or iii) combine available legacy data with new data collection. …”
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Non-Farm Activities and Impacts beyond the Economy of Rural Households in Vietnam: A Review and Link to Policies by Mulia, R., Simelton, Elisabeth, Nguyen, T.Q., Jirström, M.

“…Rural households in Asian developing countries such as Vietnam have been participating in non-farm activities for decades, yet impacts beyond the economy of these households are little understood. …”
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The future of food security of the Philippines in the face of climate change and changing consumption by Bairagi, Subir

“…The rice productivity could decrease by 0.24- 0.9%, resulting in an approximate 0.28-1.02% increase in rice prices in the next decade. Because of climate change (RCP 8.5: no climate mitigation target scenario), the per capita rice consumptions in Filipino rural and urban households are likely to decline by 0.60 kg and 0.74 kg per year, respectively. …”
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A bounds analysis of world food futures: Global agriculture through to 2050 by Pardey, Philip G., Beddow, J.M., Hurley, T.M., Beatty, T.K.M., Eidman, V.R.

“…Worldwide (but not equally everywhere), crop yield growth has generally slowed over the past decade or so. Notwithstanding a projected continuance of this slowdown, the prospective improvements in crop productivity are still sufficient to reduce per capita cropland use, such that land devoted to crops would need to increase by less than 10 per cent. …”
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Costa Rica: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet by Stads, Gert-Jan, de los Santos, Luis

“…In 2020, Costa Rica spent 0.87 percent of its agricultural GDP on agricultural R&D, which was lower than ratios recorded a decade earlier. Costa Rica’s agricultural research capacity has gradually increased over the past decade. …”
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Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications by Erenstein, Olaf, Debello, Moti J., Sonder, Kai, Mottaleb, Khondoker A., Prasanna, Boddupalli M.

“…Global maize production has surged in the past few decades, propelled by rising demand and a combination of technological advances, yield increases and area expansion. …”
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The rapid expansion of herbicide use in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia: Patterns, drivers, and implications by Tamru, Seneshaw, Minten, Bart, Alemu, Dawit, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane

“…All these factors have changed significantly over the last decade in Ethiopia, explaining the rapid take-off in herbicide adoption. …”
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Review of Food security and sociopolitical stability by Christopher B. Barrett by Alderman, Harold

“…Papers discuss food or consequences—food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability; the future of the global food economy—scenarios for supply, demand, and prices; what we know about the climate of the next decade; the global land rush; global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity; managing marine resources for food and human security; crop technologies for the coming decade; livestock futures to 2020—how they will shape food, environmental, health, and global security; labor migration and food security in a changing climate; trade policies and global food security; food security and political stability—a humanitarian perspective; moral economics of food security and protest in Latin America; food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa; lessons from the Arab Spring—food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa; food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia; when China runs out of farmers; and food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia. …”
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