Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Sustainable prevention of food crises in Sub-Saharan Africa por Badiane, Ousmane, Collins, Julia, Fujita, Yasuo, Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Terero, Maximo, Vos, Rob, Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…Food crises and distress migration will continue to plague the African continent in the decades ahead unless massive investments are made to make the region’s agriculture and food systems more resilient. …”
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Aquaculture in Myanmar: Fish farm technology, production economics and management por Belton, Ben, Filipski, Mateusz J., Hu, Chaoran

“…Fish farming (aquaculture) has grown rapidly in Myanmar over the last two decades and plays an increasingly important role in national fish supply, but its technical and economic characteristics have been little studied. …”
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Aquaculture in Myanmar: Fish farm technology, production economics and management por Belton, Ben, Filipski, Mateusz J., Hu, Chaoran, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Fish farming (aquaculture) has grown rapidly in Myanmar over the last two decades and plays an increasingly important role in national fish supply, but its technical and economic characteristics have been little studied. …”
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Synopsis: Coffee value chains on the move: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers in Ethiopia por Minten, Bart, Dereje, Mekdim, Engida, Ermias, Kuma, Tadesse

“…Important changes to Ethiopia’s coffee sector have occurred in the last decade. The adoption of improved production, harvest, and post-harvest practices has been increasing with positive impacts on coffee productivity and incomes. …”
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An empirical examination of the dynamics of varietal turnover in Indian wheat por Krishna, Vijesh V., Spielman, David J., Veettil, Prakashan C., Ghimire, Subash

“…The analyses show that the rate of varietal turnover for wheat has slowed in India from an average of 9-10 years a decade ago to 13-14 years in 2010. By focusing on a sample of farmers and villages in Haryana, where seed and information networks are relatively well developed, the study finds that wheat farmers still prefer cultivars that were released 9-10 years ago.…”
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Agricultural change and rural poverty: variations on a theme by Dharm Narain por Mellor, John W., Desai, Gunvant M.

“…During the past two decades there has been increasing concern that the development strategies of the 1950s and 1960s would neither eliminate nor even greatly reduce poverty even as the pervasive nature of that poverty became more widely recognized. …”
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The role of agribusiness firms in agricultural research: The case of China por Zhang, Huije, Fan, Shenggen, Qian, Keming

“…In the last two decades public funding for agricultural research and development (R&D) in China reached a plateau causing productivity within the agricultural sector to diminish. …”
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What do we know about the future of agriculture in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay? The Mercosur Outlook por Jorge, Nicolás, Campos, Silvia Kanadani, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo, da Pereira, Vanessa da Fonseca, Masaro, Jimena Vicentin, Peri, Graciela Isabel, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This study addresses the question: what will happen to relevant agricultural variables over the next decade if current trends persist? Although based on a quantitative model, the results are not merely model outputs; they undergo a thorough revision process with experts from each country. …”
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Integrated water resources management in Nepal: key stakeholders’ perceptions and lessons learned por Suhardiman, Diana, Clement, Floriane, Bharati, Luna

“…Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been prescribed in the global water policy literature for decades. This article looks at how the concept has been applied in Nepal. …”
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Monitoring of land use intensification and linkage to soil erosion in Nigeria and Benin por Junge, B., Abaidoo, Robert C., Chikoye, David, Alabi, T.R., Stahr, Karl

“…The example from a pilot village located in southern Benin shows the increase of the cropping area and the growth of erosion gullies within the last decades. As the data provide the basis for installing soil conservation techniques, they are a useful tool to restore soil productivity and to cope with the food demand in the country.…”
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Effect of agriculture on soil properties associated with soil health and fertility in the Argentinean Pampas por Sainz Rozas, Hernan Rene, Eyherabide, Mercedes, Larrea, Gaston Emiliano, Angelini, Hernán Pablo, Reussi Calvo, Nahuel Ignacio, Wyngaard, Nicolás

“…During the last four decades, the Argentinean Pampas Region (APR) (lat: 33o 23’S to 38o 47’S, long: 57o 36’W to 65o 10’W) has been subjected to a land use change process known as “agriculturization”, which is the conversion of native grasslands into croplands. …”
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A preliminary study of spatial distribution and plant density in a leucaena-grass planting in north Corrientes, Argentina por Gandara, Luis, Pereira, Maria Mercedes, Stup, Marcos

“…Overall, productivity remains low (30‒40 kg LW/ha/yr), mainly due to poor cattle nutrition (Goldfarb et al. 1993; Goldfarb and Casco 1994). In past decades, several improved grass and legume species were evaluated as a strategy to overcome this problem (Goldfarb et al. 1993; Goldfarb and Casco 1998) with Leucaena leucocephala (leucaena) showing definite potential.…”
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Public agricultural spending and growth in Ghana: Spending more, smarter por Aragie, Emerta A., Artavia, Marco, Pauw, Karl

“…The declaration included commitments to reduce hunger and poverty, boost intra-regional trade, enhance resilience to climate variability, and, in line with the Maputo Declaration a decade earlier, to continue allocating to agriculture at least 10 percent of government expenditure. …”
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The Compound Risk Framework: Assessing fragility and key drivers of food insecurity in Haiti, Mozambique and Ghana por Minoarivelo, Onivola Henintsoa, Craparo, Alessandro, Basel, Ashleigh Megan, Nguyen, Kien Tri, Ouedraogo, Yacouba, Douglas, Wesley, Melly, Brigitte, Dao, Hoa, Carneiro, Bia, Pacillo, Grazia, Laderach, Peter

“…The role of climate variability has increased in recent decades, owing to more frequent extreme events, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities of crops, ecosystems, people and communities. …”
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Pobladores isleños frente a políticas de conservación: relaciones conflictivas en el Parque Nacional “Islas de Santa Fe” (Argentina) = Island settlers facing conservation policies:... por Ferrero, Brian, Massa, Ernesto Segundo, Spiaggi, Eduardo

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Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate: Future technologies and food systems innovation for accelerating progress towards the SDGs - key messages por Herrero, Mario, Thornton, Philip K., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palmer, Jeda

“…The global food system is the single largest driver of global environmental change, contributing 24% of greenhouse gas missions, consuming 70% of blue water, and being the primary cause behind the 60% loss of vertebrate biodiversity since the 1970s. In the next three decades we will need a 30-70% increase in food availability to meet the demand for food by an increasingly numerous, urbanised and afuent population. …”
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Grass pea, Lathyrus sativus L. por Campbell, C.G., Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) has over the past decade received increased interest as a plant that is adapted to arid conditions and contains high levels of protein. …”
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A brief overview of smallholder farmers' access to seed of improved legume varieties por Akpo, E., Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…For decades, the vast majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries, mainly sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to some extent South Asia (SA), heavily rely on non-improved and auto-saved variety seed, accounting for about 80% of their material used for planting. …”
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Regreening Africa: Consolidated Baseline Survey Report por Hughes, K.A., Oduol, J., Kegode, H., Ouattara, I., Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Bourne, M., Neely, C.L., Ademonla, D., Schoubroeck, F. van, Chomba, S., Carsan, S.

“…The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021 to 2030 as the decade of ‘ecosystem restoration’, signalling a global consensus on the urgency to restore degraded lands. …”
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CGIAR genebank viability data reveal inconsistencies in seed collection management por Hay, Fiona R., Whitehouse, Katherine J., Ellis, Richard H., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh, Lusty, Charlotte E., Ndjiondjop, Marie Noelle, Tia, Daniel, Wenzl, Peter, Santos, Luís Guillermo, Yazbek, Mariana, Azevedo, Vania C.R., Peerzada, Ovais H., Abberton, Michael T., Oyatomi, Olaniyi, Guzman, Flora de, Capilit, Grace, Muchugi, Alice, Kinyanjui, Zakayo

“…Examination of the historical viability monitoring data from seven CGIAR genebanks confirmed that high seed viability was maintained for many decades for the various crops and forage species. …”
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