Search Results - "Decadence"

The roots of future rice harvests by Ahmadi, N., Audebert, A., Bennett, M. J., Bishopp, A., Costa de Oliveira, A., Courtois, Brigitte, Diedhiou, A., Diévart, A., Gantet, P., Ghesquière, A., Guiderdoni, Emmanuel, Henry, Amelia, Inukai, Y., Kochian, L., Laplaze, L., Lucas, M., Luu, D. T., Manneh, B., Mo, X., Muthurajan, Raveendram, Périn, C., Price, A., Robin, S., Sentenac, H., Sine, B., Uga, Y., Véry, A. A., Wissuwa, M., Wu, P., Xu, J.

“…Whereas yield of cereal crops tend to reach plateaus and a yield is likely to be deeply affected by climate instability and resource scarcity in the coming decades, building rice cultivars harboring root systems that can maintain performance by capturing water and nutrient resources unevenly distributed is a major breeding target. …”
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Crop residues management and nutritional improvement practices by Assefa, Getnet, Bezabih, Melkamu, Mekonnen, Kindu, Adie, Aberra, Gebreyes, Million, Seifu, Haimanot

“…The major crop residues are cereals, namely, maize, teff, sorghum, wheat and barley, which account for more than 80% of the total acreage and production of the major food crops in the country. In the last three decades, crop residue production has sharply increased as farmers use more land to grow cereals and use improved technologies. …”
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Global wheat production could benefit from closing the genetic yield gap by Senapati, Nimai, Semenov, Mikhail A., Halford, Nigel G., Hawkesford, Malcolm John, Asseng, Senthold, Cooper, Mark, Ewert, Frank, Ittersum, Martin K. van, Martre, Pierre, Olesen, Jørgen E., Reynolds, Matthew P., Rötter, Reimund P., Webber, Heidi

“…Global food security requires food production to be increased in the coming decades. The closure of any existing genetic yield gap (Yig) by genetic improvement could increase crop yield potential and global production. …”
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Prioritizing sustainable use in the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework by Obura, David, Agrawal, Arun, DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Donaldson, John, Dziba, Luthando, Emery, Marla R., Friedman, Kim, Fromentin, Jean-Marc, Garibaldi, Lucas A., Mulongoy, Jo, Navarrete-Frias, Carolina, Mosig Reidl, Paola, Roe, Dilys, Timoshyna, Anastasiya

“…In late 2021, a range of experts from around the world came together through GEOBON and the bioDiscovery program of Future Earth to provide expert input to the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework (GBF)—the new strategic framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that will guide interventions to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services for the next 3 decades. This opinion piece, a companion to others addressing the ecosystem, restoration, climate, and production system objectives of the GBF (see https://geobon.org/science-briefs/), discusses the science behind the sustainable use (SU) targets. …”
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Agricultural development in a changing world by Fan, Shenggen, Otsuka, Keijiro

“…In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development. …”
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Agricultural mechanization in Tanzania by Mrema, Geoffrey C., Kahan, David G., Agyei-Holmes, Andrew

“…Tanzania has seen a slow but steady growth in agricultural mechanization over the past few decades. The country’s mechanization growth trend is fairly consistent with patterns elsewhere, with both agroecological and socioeconomic conditions as key determinants of increased mechanization. …”
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Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology by Afshar, Mehdi H., Foster, Tim, Higginbottom, Thomas P., Parkes, Ben, Hufkens, Koen, Mansabdar, Sanjay, Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber

“…Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change. Index insurance can theoretically help farmers to adapt and mitigate the risks posed by extreme weather events, providing a financial safety net in the event of crop damage or harvest failure. …”
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Solarization of electric tube-wells for agriculture in Balochistan: Economic and environmental viability by Rana, Abdul Wajid, Davies, Stephen, Moeen, Muhammad Saad, Shikoh, Sania Haider, Rizwan, Noormah

“…Balochistan’s agriculture and related economic development during the last four decades has been driven by an enhancement in canal command areas and widespread use of tubewells. …”
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Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach by Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F., Park, Seollee

“…Over the past two decades, many developing countries have made impressive progress in reducing undernutrition. …”
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Food policy in 2017-2018: Progress, uncertainty, and rising antiglobalism by Fan, Shenggen

“…Major global events evidenced a shift away from the decades-long trend toward greater global integratio. …”
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Nutrition and equality: Brazil’s success in reducing stunting among the poorest by Keefe, Meagan

“…RAPID ADVANCES IN economic development and healthcare in Brazil have contributed to significant improvements in child health and nutrition in recent decades. Brazil met Millennium Development Goal 1—halving the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day and halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, and Goal 4—reducing by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate. …”
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The role of agriculture and the agro-processing industry for development in Egypt: An overview by El-Enbaby, Hoda, Figueroa, Jose Luis, ElDidi, Hagar, Breisinger, Clemens

“…The sector’s stable growth performance has proved to be a reliable contributor to economy-wide output growth over the past decades. The underlying productivity gains have prevented the country’s food import depend-ency ratio from rising in spite of rapidly growing food demand.…”
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Megatrends and the future of African economies by Traub, Lulama, Yeboah, Felix K., Meyer, Ferdinand, Jayne, Thomas S.

“…Just as the current trends being observed in African food systems are the outcomes of the policies and public investment patterns of prior decades, the future will be shaped and transformed by today’s policy actions—either those taken proactively or those taken passively as a result of no action (Seidman 1973). …”
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The cooling effect of pulse imports on price: The case of the pigeon pea in India by Negi, Akanksha, Roy, Devesh

“…The persistent shortfall in India’s production of pulses in the wake of rising demand has led to an increasing volume of imports in the last decade. By bridging the demand–supply gap, imports are aimed at restricting rising domestic prices. …”
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AgriTech Toolbox: Using agricultural technologies for enhanced productivity and sustainable food security by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…As a result, it can inform the right mix of policies and investments needed to tackle the challenges agriculture faces in the coming decades. The AgriTech toolbox models the impacts of 10 technologies on farm yields, food prices, natural resource use, hunger, malnutrition, land use and global trade. …”
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Seed, fertilizer, and agricultural extension in Ethiopia by Spielman, David J., Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Alemu, Dawit

“…Over the past two decades, decisionmakers in Ethiopia have pursued a range of policies and investments to boost agricultural production and productivity, particularly with respect to the food staple crops that are critical to reducing poverty in the country. …”
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Costs and benefits of food subsidies in India by George, Poykayil Simon

“…Government interventions in foodgrain markets have existed in India in one form or another for about four decades, starting during the Second World War. Because supplies from Burma were cut off during the war, price controls and movement restrictions were introduced by the government; subsequently, other measures were added with a view to providing a minimum supply at subsidized prices. …”
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A review of alternative strategies for improving farmer-managed irrigation systems in Sri Lanka by Dayaratne, M.H.S.

“…The study reviewed three government strategies and two nongovernment strategies which have been implemented as assistance programs to improve and enhance the small irrigation sector during the last two decades. It was also based largely on the research findings and presentations made at workshops on specific subjects conducted by IIMI and the Agricultural Research and Training Institute (ARTI).…”
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A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries by Thornton, Philip K., Rosenstock, Todd S., Förch, Wiebke, Lamanna, Christine, Bell, Patrick, Henderson, Benjamin B., Herrero, Mario

“…The mixed crop-livestock systems of the developing world will become increasingly important for meeting the food security challenges of the coming decades. The synergies and trade-offs between food security, adaptation, and mitigation objectives are not well studied, however. …”
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Integration of green hydrogen in the European energy systems : technical maturity and impact assessment of hydrogen utilisation in 2020 by Leao, Theodorik

“…Hydrogen has been suggested as a way to decarbonise the global energy system for decades but has yet to have a breakthrough on the European energy market. …”