Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Political economy of agricultural producer support in Malawi: An econometric test of determinants of producer protection in the maize sector por Phiri, Horace, Edriss, Abdi Khalil

“…Malawi has struggled to achieve sustained agricultural growth over the last four decades. As such there is need for in-creased investment and supportive policies if greater success is to be realized. …”
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Population and food in the early twenty-first century: meeting future food demand of an increasing population por Islam, Nurul

“…The product of a conference leading up to the 2020 Vision initiative, Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century offers technical background information on the issues of food and hunger in the coming decades. Here food, agriculture, and population experts from the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, IFPRI, and other organizations discuss the outlook for food demand and supply, and recommend areas of further study to help production meet the rising demand of a burgeoning world population.…”
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Recent growth in African cassava por Nweke, Felix I., Haggblade, Steven, Zulu, Ballard

“…In response to a series of devastating attacks by cassava diseases and pests over the past several decades, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and several national agricultural research services have launched successful cassava research programs... " This brief describes some of the programs, their impact and the drivers of change. …”
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Commentaries on Price Policy and Equity por Eicher, Carl K., Spencer, Dunstan

“…Development literature illustrates the need for a broad conceptual framework that encompasses poverty, hunger, and inequality. Drawing on two decades of research in India, Mellor (1978) demonstrates the process of isolating the direct and indirect effects of food price changes on producers and consumers by income class. …”
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Overcoming challenges in Ethiopia’s nutrition governance por Ayele, Seife, Nisbett, Nicholas, Zegeye, Elias Asfaw

“…Ethiopia has implemented multi-sectoral nutrition programmes for over a decade, with some success. However, challenges remain in coordination and implementation of these programmes. …”
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The impact of agricultural policy measures on protecting agrobiodiversity, promoting sustainable farming, and improving farmers’ incomes: A desk review of experiences from Europe por Vernooy, Ronnie

“…The review concludes that over many decades, the CAP has been instrumental to support farmers across Europe financially, but this has not or hardly been realized in harmony with the conservation of agrobiodiversity and the protection of the agro-environment. …”
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Sudan: Cereal markets and trade por Dorosh, Paul A., Kirui, Oliver K., Siddig, Khalid

“…Cereal production and markets, key components of Sudan’s food economy, have changed dramatically in the last decade due to conflict-related disruptions, as well as earlier changes in government policy. …”
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Introduction por Edmunds, D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Contreras, A.P., Liu Dachang, Kelkar, G., Sarin, M., Singh, N.M.

“…The book uses 12-20 case studies in each China, Philippines and India to understand the impacts of community-based forest management policies of the last two decades. We define impacts in terms of the changes in economic, resource or political space that local people have in forest management. …”
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Resilience to climate change: community-based adaptation in Kenya and Senegal por Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin

“…Climate change is already having an impact on social, environmental and economic systems worldwide and will continue to pose significant challenges for human development over the decades to come. Communities that rely on natural resources for their livelihoods, especially in developing countries, are among those hardest hit. …”
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Irrigation management for diversified cropping por International Irrigation Management Institute

“…Improvements in rice growing technologies during the last two decades have resulted in a number of countries especially in the humid tropical regions of Asia, nearing self sufficiency in rice production. …”
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Crop wild relatives and climate change por Redden, R., Yadav, S.S., Maxted, Nigel, Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan, Guarino, Luigi, Smith, Pete

“…Crop Wild Relatives and Climate Change – gives an overview of the impacts of climate change on growing environments and the challenges that agricultural production faces in coming years and decades. It explores the potential for crop wild relatives to contribute novel genetic resources to the breeding of more resilient and productive crops, and breeding technologies and biotechnological advances that are being used to incorporate key genetic traits of wild relatives into crop varieties. …”
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Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java por Suhardiman, Diana

“…Poor performance of government managed irrigation systems persists globally despite numerous policies over the last four decades to address the problem. I argue that policy efforts to improve irrigation performance in developing countries fail in part because they are often formulated in isolation from the existing agrarian reality. …”
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Towards understanding fertilizer responses in Ethiopia por Kihara, Job Maguta, Tibebe, Degefie, Gurmessa, Biyensa Dubiwak, Tamene, Lulseged D.

“…This is a comprehensive dataset specifically on crop response to fertilizers and is obtained from published journal articles, thesis and proceedings spanning at least 5 decades. It represents all the agriculturally productive regions of Ethiopia. …”
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Contribution of milk production to food and nutrition security por Domínguez Salas, Paula, Galiè, Alessandra, Omore, Amos O., Omosa, Esther B., Ouma, Emily A.

“…Milk supply in low-and middle-income countries has been increasing over the past two decades in response to milk demand and consumption, and offers numerous pathways to enhance food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable populations.…”
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River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification por CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communities, local governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have demonstrated the potential to overcome these challenges and substantially improve people’s livelihoods. …”
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Atlas of West African urban food systems: examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso por Karg, H., Drechsel, Pay

“…It thereby draws on the results of several major collaborative research projects and stakeholder consultations conducted in West Africa over the past two decades, and in particular on the UrbanFoodPlus project in Ghana and Burkina Faso (www.urbanfoodplus.org). …”
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Tendances du secteur de l'elevage en Afrique au sud du Sahara por Anteneh, A.

“…Describes the situation in sub-Saharan Africa's livestock industries over the last two decades, reviewing the most important trends in Africa's livestock industries, with particular reference to meat & milk output from ruminant livestock, & the external trade in these commodities; & considering these trends on the basis of a regional comparison of the situation in four subregions of sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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FTA Highlight No.3 – Conservation of Tree Biodiversity and Sustainable Forest Management por Vinceti, B., Thomas, E., Jalonen, R., Guariguata, Manuel R., Snook, Laura K., Gaisberger, H., Dawson, Ian K., Jamnadass, Ramni H., Kettle, Christopher J.

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V2: Integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agroecosystems por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Puskur, Ranjitha, Gerard, Bruno G., Valbuena, Diego, Asse, Rainer

“…With mixed crop-livestock systems projected to remain the main providers of food in the coming decades, opportunities exist for smallholders to participate and benefit from emerging crop and livestock markets in the Volta Basin. …”
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Replicable stories for the expansion of water reuse in MENA por International Water Management Institute

“…The number of projects for direct water reuse has doubled every decade since 1990 and now the region has more than 400. …”
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