Search Results - "Decadence"

Content development and management processes of ICT initiatives in Indian agriculture by Glendenning, C.J., Ficarelli, P.P.

“…In the last decade, many ICT projects in Indian agriculture have emerged, which either substitute or support extension services by enabling farmers' access to information. …”
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Stochastic simulation to optimize rice breeding at IRRI by Seck, Fallou, Prakash, Parthiban Thathapalli, Covarrubias-Pazaran, Giovanny, Gueye, Tala, Diédhiou, Ibrahima, Bhosale, Sankalp, Kadaru, Suresh, Bartholomé, Jerome

“…Genetic improvement in rice increased yield potential and improved varieties for farmers over the last decades. However, the demand for rice is growing while its cultivation faces challenges posed by climate change. …”
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A National Land Policy Review in Kenya: Rangelands and Pastoralists' Perspective by Otieno, Ken P.

“…The process has also benefited from RECONCILE’s work with pastoralists and pastoralism in the region that spans over two decades.…”
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Public school students camp at IITA Forest Center in honor of IITA legend by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…This memorable camping, held 11–12 July, was fully sponsored by the Retrobeights, friends of the late Captain David Sewell—a revered figure whose legacy with IITA spans more than four decades. IITA Forest Center, known for offering immersive nature-based experiences, regularly opens its doors to the public for camping activities. …”
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Incomes from the forest: methods for the development and conservation of forest products for local communities by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Ingles, A.

“…In the last two decades, there has been increasing interest in the potential of small-scale non-timber forest product collection and other low-impact uses of the forest for achieving forest conservation. …”
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Lessons for change: getting more from international forestry assistance by Fruhling, P., Persson, R.

“…During the last few decades, forestry assistance has benefited from the positive interest in environmental issues and has generally been less questioned than many other sectors of fields within international development assistance. …”
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Shifting power to the periphery: the impact of decentralisation on forests and forest people by Resosudarmo, I.A.P.

“…After decades of central government control, the recent decentralization laws devolved authority in many areas, including natural resource management, to local governments. …”
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Forests, illegality, and livelihoods in Cameroon by Cerutti, P.O., Tacconi, L.

“…Concern about illegal logging has grown considerably over the past decade due to the interest in its environmental impacts, and more recently as a result of its perceived impacts on livelihoods. …”
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Putting the National Back into Forest-Related Policies: The International Forests Regime and National Policies in Brazil and Indonesia by Singer, B.

“…This study is based on a comparison of the evolution over the past three decades of FRPs and the IFR's impact in Brazil and Indonesia — the two top-ranking countries in deforestation figures — and draws two conclusions. …”
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Bumbling bureaucrats, sluggish courts and forum-shopping elites by Mwangi, E.

“…For close to two decades Maasai herders in Southwestern Kenyan have been struggling to subdivide their collectively held group ranches into individually owned and titled parcels. …”
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Non-timber forest products in the global context by Shackleton, S., Shackleton, Charlie M., Shanley, P.

“…There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest management, income generation and poverty alleviation. …”
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State of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Efforts for Agriculture in Burkina Faso by Samari, H.

“…Burkina Faso epitomizes the increasing concerns over food security in the Sahel region. Over the past three decades, the country has gone through a series of natural calamities marked by droughts and flooding, which negatively impacted crop production and greatly increased concerns over food supply. …”
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ILRI 1999. Making the livestock revolution work for the poor by International Livestock Research Institute

“…It is a companion report to the institutes new strategic plan, which takes the revolution as its basis in determining how ILRI's programme should evolve in the first decade of the 21st century. The report begins and ends on a farm in central Ethiopia, whose mixed crop-livestock producers are just beginning to participate in the expanding dairy market of the country's capital, Addis Ababa. …”
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Crop-animal systems in Asia: Future perspectives by Devendra, C.

“…In the next two decades, the demand for animal products will more than double. …”
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Toward a protocol for quantifying the greenhouse gas balance and identifying mitigation options in smallholder farming systems by Rosenstock, Todd S., Rufino, Mariana C., Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Agricultural intensification and expansion in these regions is expected to catalyze the most significant relative increases in agricultural GHG emissions over the next decade (Smith et al 2008, Tilman et al 2011). Farms in the developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are predominately managed by smallholders, with 80% of land holdings smaller than ten hectares (FAO 2012). …”
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INTERACTION BETWEEN GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND WATER EXPLOITATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN SREPOK RIVER BASIN (VIETNAM) by MK17 Project Team

“…In Vietnamese: In the past decades, the exploitation and use of water resources (surface and groundwater) and the prevention and control of water-caused disasters in the Srepok River Basin have gained important achievements, contributing greatly to socio-economic development of the basin. …”
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Fish biodiversity research in the Mekong Basin by Baran, Eric, Chum, N., Fukushima, M., Hand,T., Hortle, K.G., Jutagate, T., Kang, B.

“…The Mekong region is in fact a fish biodiversity hotspot whose richness is only now being revealed. During the last decade more than 279 new species of fish have been discovered in this basin alone (WWF 2009). …”
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The National River Linking Project [NRLP] of India: some contentious issues. by Amarasinghe, Upali A.

“…India's National River Linking Project (NRLP), which has been on the drawing board for some three decades, is the largest inter-basin water transfer planned to date in India or elsewhere. …”
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Towards climate smart agriculture: lessons from a coffee × banana case. Experiences from research for policy support in Uganda by Kangire A, Asten, Piet J.A. van, Verhagen J, Koomen, I.

“…Furthermore, the average temperature is expected to increase by 2 °C in the next few decades. This will affect coffee producing areas, most notably the Arabica growing regions, in addition an increase in pest and disease incidence is expected. …”
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Livestock development and climate change in Turkana District, Kenya by Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Thornton, Philip K., Herrero, Mario

“…The main purpose of the study presented here is to shed some light using simple and aggregated methods on the following question: In view of the expected climate change, is there also a long-term perspective for livestock development in the area, i.e. will the Turkana ecosystem be able to sustain livestock production during the next few decades? In our search for an answer to this question, we looked at the current pressure on the environment, tried to interpolate the predicted climate change to the Turkana District scale and started exploring some of the possible impacts of climate change on the environment and the people depending on it. …”
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