Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Gender, poverty, and disability in the National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition 2017-2019 of Indonesia and ways forward por Go, Ara, Ramani, Gayathri V., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Over the past two decades Indonesia has undergone a major economic transformation including reducing the poverty rate by more than half to a current level of about 10% and becoming the 10th largest economy in the world. …”
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Food and nutrition security in Eurasia: Evolution, shocks and policies por Burkitbayeva, Saule, Swinnen, Johan, Warrinnier, Nele

“…From under-nutrition to various forms of malnutrition and obesity, these countries face different challenges when it comes to food and nutrition security. Over the last three decades, their situations have been affected by a number of important income shocks, including through falling remittances from relatively wealthier to poorer countries. …”
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Addressing Africa’s soil health challenges through the ten-year African Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan (2024-2034) and the longer-term Soil Initiative for Africa Framework por African Union Development Agency, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…Agricultural productivity in Africa is severely constrained by extensive land and soil degradation, a challenge that has persisted for decades. Approximately 75%-80% of the continent's cultivated area is reportedly degraded, resulting in a loss of 30kg-60kg of nutrients per hectare annually. …”
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Transforming agriculture for improving food and nutrition security among Nigerian farm households por Ecker, Olivier, Hatzenbuehler, Patrick L., Mahrt, Kristi

“…The release by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) in 2010 and its successor strategy document, the Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP), in 2016 as official policy strategy documents signals a shift in policymaker attention toward improving the performance of the agricultural sector in the country after decades of neglect. This paper discusses the potential effects of changes in agricultural production practices due to these adjustments in strategy on food consumption, and, hence, on food security and nutrition in Nigeria. …”
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The other Asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh por Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F., Ali, Disha, Tesfaye, Roman, Dereje, Mekdim

“…Although South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition – the so called Asian Enigma – Bangladesh has managed to sustain a surprisingly rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. We investigate this unheralded success through a regression and decomposition analysis of changes in child growth outcomes across five rounds of DHS surveys from 1997 to 2011. …”
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Proposed pathways for moving forward por Piñeiro, Martin, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…In Chapter I, the introduction of this book, we present a succinct description of the many difficulties that the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its member countries have encountered over the last decade in their attempts to advance in negotiations toward agreements that could contribute to more open and transparent global trade and the discussions taking place as a result of these difficulties. …”
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Revisiting food and nutrition security: A comprehensive overview por Ecker, Olivier, Breisinger, Clemens

“…The modest progress in reducing malnutrition over the past two decades and the severe impacts of recent food crises have re-ignited a debate on new ways for improving food and nutrition security. …”
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Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana por Chapoto, Antony, Mabiso, Athur, Bonsu, Adwinmea

“…The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. …”
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Agricultural change and rural poverty: a synthesis por Mellor, John W., Desai, Gunvant M.

“…The temporal variations in poverty include not only the secular decline incident to decades-long processes of growth and the violent short-term changes brought about by famine but also the substantial intermediate-term undulations that can cause the number of people in absolute poverty to vary by 50 percent or more, The spatial variations in poverty eccompass situations that differ widely in terms of the average income of the population, the land-tenure systems, and the institutional organization as well as those that are uite similar.…”
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The role of smallholder generation from agriculture in sub-saharan Africa por Delgado, Christopher L.

“…Much research has been conducted over the past three decades on how and why African smallholders diversity their income from sources outside of farming. …”
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia por Yesuf, Mahmud, di Falco, Salvatore, Deressa, Temesgen T., Ringler, Claudia, Kohlin, Gunnar

“…Growing consensus in the scientific community indicates that higher temperatures and changing precipitation levels resulting from climate change will depress crop yields in many countries over the coming decades. This is particularly true in low-income countries, where adaptive capacity is low. …”
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Transboundary water governance challenges in the Mahakali River basin: a view from Nepal and way forward por Tiwari, K., Pant, R. R., Shah, D. N.

“…The 1996 Mahakali Treaty aimed to promote cooperation, but after almost three decades, effective transboundary governance has remained limited. …”
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Rural landscape simplification and provision of cultural ecosystem services : a case study in the Argentine Pampas por Cabrini, Silvina María, Cristeche, Estela Raquel, Pace Guerrero, Ignacio Raul, Bitar, María Victoria

“…In recent decades, the rural landscape of the Argentine Pampas has undergone a process of simplification due to the increased land allocated to crops, replacing pastures and grasslands, with a substantial increase in soybean area. …”
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First record of males of the invasive eucalyptus pest species Leptocybe invasa Fisher & LaSalle, 2004 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) from South America por Aquino, Daniel Alejandro, Hernandez, Carmen Marcela, Andorno, Andrea Veronica

“…L. invasa females were reported from South America in the last decade. Thelytokous parthenogenesis is the most common reproductive mechanism of this pest. …”
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Developments in plant-based vaccines against diseases of concern in developing countries por Gomez, Evangelina Raquel, Chimeno Zoth, Silvina Andrea, Carrillo, Elisa Cristina, Berinstein, Analia

“…The production of plant-based vaccines provides a promising alternative to create affordable biological products. In the past decade, a growing number of research groups worldwide have studied plant expression and parenteral or oral delivery of vaccine antigens, some showing promising potential. …”
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Introduction to the special issue on Balanced diets in food systems: emerging trends and challenges for human health and wellbeing por Descalzo, Adriana Maria, Muchenje, Voster, Mukumbo, Felicitas E., Schönfeldt, Hettie C.

“…Dietary consumption patterns differ significantly amongst consumers from different regions of the world as well as between societies amongst people with different socio-demographic backgrounds. However for several decades, the amount of energy in the food supply has increased, and inexpensive, processed, energy dense foods have become widely marketed and available…”
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Environmental analyses to inform transitions to sustainable diets in developing countries: case studies for Vietnam and Kenya por Heller, Martin C., Walchale, Abhijeet, Heard, Brent R., Hoey, Lesli, Khoury, Colin K., Haan, Stef de, Burra, Dharani Dhar, Thi, Thanh Duong, Osiemo, Jamleck, Thi Huong, Trinh, Jones, Andrew D.

“…Methods FAO food supply data at decadal time steps were used as a proxy for national average diets in Vietnam and Kenya. …”
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Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand por Komarek, Adam M., Dunston, S., Enahoro, Dolapo K., Godfray, H. Charles J., Herrero, Mario, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Rich, Karl M., Scarborough, Peter, Springmann, M., Sulser, Timothy B., Wiebe, Keith D., Willenbockel, Dirk

“…In recent decades there has been a sustained and substantial shift in human diets across the globe towards including more livestock-derived foods. …”
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FTA Highlight No.14 – Governing forests, trees and agroforestry for delivering on the SDGs por Minang, Peter A., Duguma, L.A., Leimona, B., Noordwijk, M. van, Catacutan, D., Ickowitz, A., Dewi, S., Johana, F., Rizvi, J., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Larson, A.M., Robiglio, V., Wainaina, P., Bernard, F., Mandiefe, S.P., Foundjem-Tita, D., Cerutti, P.O., Mutune, J., Hoan, D.T., Alemagi, D., Purnomo, H., Galudra, G., Villamor, Grace B., Mulyoutami, E.

“…This publication presents and discusses the main achievements in terms of contributions to research, innovation and actual impact on good governance at the landscape, subnational, national and supra-national levels. A decade of FTA involvement has contributed substantively to the development of national agroforestry policies in a number of countries, including India (the world’s first-ever national agroforestry policy)1 and Nepal. …”
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Spatial optimization of cropping systems for sustainable intensification in Malawi por Liben, Feyera, Kihara, Job, Mesfin, Tewodros, Abera, Wuletawu, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Tamene, Lulseged

“…Furthermore, long-term, plot-based experimental evidence on multi-decadal cropping system performance is extremely limited due to the high cost and time requirements of continuous field research. …”
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