Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals por Agrawal, A., Angelsen, A.

“…Policy makers can improve the likelihood of success for REDD+ initiatives by incorporating success factors identified through decades of research on community forest management. …”
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Rural–urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds por Parry, L., Peres, C.A., Day, B., Amaral, S.

“…The permanently inhabited extent of rivers contracted by 33 ± 8 SE% in recent decades, and households farther upriver were more likely to be considering rural–urban migration.However, harvesting of aquatic and terrestrial wildlife by nonresidents continued into headwater regions, hundreds of kilometers beyond the last household on any given river. …”
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Indicators for assessing Indonesia’s Javan rhino National Park vulnerability to climate change por Purnomo, H., Herawati, H., Santoso, H.

“…The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted its impacts will accelerate rapidly over the coming decades. The components of vulnerability have been defined as exposure, sensitivity and the capacity to adapt to climate change. …”
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Policy implications of land use changes in the uplands of northern Lao PDR por Douangsavanh, L., Laddavong, P., Bouahom, B., Castella, J.C.

“…The 2000s decade has seen a lot of changes in the northern uplands of Lao PDR that where driven by three main drivers or agents of change: government policies, foreign private investors and development assistance led by bilateral or multilateral organizations or international NGOs. …”
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Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects por Thornton, Philip K.

“…There is considerable uncertainty as to how these factors will play out in different regions of the world in the coming decades.…”
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Reducing the vulnerability of women rural producers to rising hydro-meteorological disasters in Senegal: are there gender-specific climate service needs? por Tall, Arame

“…If there is a need, how can identifying these needs be incorporated into the design of gender-responsive adaptation policies that will serve to reduce the vulnerability of rural women producers towards rising climate-related shocks? Indeed, the past decade (1995-2005) has been characterized by increasing climate variability and more frequent extremes all over Africa (see fig. 1). …”
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Stories of Change and Innovation in the Volta Basin Development Challenge Program por Greenough, Karen Marie

“…Innovation seems to be the lead buzz-word of the 2010 decade, a must for funding proposals. In this report, to go beyond buzz words and dictionary definitions, I try to tell stories of change and innovation within the Volta Basin Development Challenge, or CPWF-Volta, of CGIAR’s Challenge Program for Water and Food. …”
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Productivity growth, catching-up and uncertainty in China’s meat trade por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Hertel, Thomas W., Foster, K., Rae, A.

“…The potential role of China as a major importer of agricultural products, and the likely impact on world markets has been a topic of considerable debate over the past decade. In this paper, we focus specifically on the livestock sector and develop a detailed analysis of productivity growth in China’s pig and poultry production along with projections of China’s likely meat trade in the year 2010. …”
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The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia por Suhardiman, Diana

“…In the last two decades, international donors have promoted Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) as an international remedy to management problems in government irrigation systems in many developing countries. …”
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Selected experiences with irrigation management transfer: Economic implications por Johnson, S.H.

“…After three decades of rapid increases in investment in irrigation systems, there has been an almost equally dramatic decline in irrigation investment, brought about by relatively low grain prices, rising construction costs and increased concern about the environment. …”
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Climate Change Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia por Lasco, Rodel, Habito CMD, Delfino, R.J.P., Pulhin FB, Concepcion RN

“…Climate change, defined as any change in the average daily weather pattern over an extended period of time (typically decades or longer) whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (Easterling et al. 2007, IPCC 2007a), is happening now, and is already affecting many natural systems around the world (IPCC 2007a). …”
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Strengthening regional supply chains for agricultural transformation in Colombia por Peña, Y, Miller, V, Parra-Peña, Rafael Isidro, Lundy, Mark M.

“…Over the last 2 decades, Colombia has gained valuable experience in supporting agricultural supply chains. …”
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Feed resources for ruminants in smallholder farming systems in Southeast Asia por Pezo, Danilo A., Lanting, E.F., Chee, W.C., Kerridge, Peter C.

“…The demand for meat and milk in Southeast Asia has almost doubled in the past two decades, and this trend is expected to continue in following years. …”
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Towards a managed aquifer recharge strategy for Gujarat, India: an economist’s dialogue with hydro-geologists por Shah, Tushaar

“…Gujarat state in Western India exemplifies all challenges of an agrarian economy founded on groundwater overexploitation sustained over decades by perverse energy subsidies. Major consequences are: secular decline in groundwater levels, deterioration of groundwater quality, rising energy cost of pumping, soaring carbon footprint of agriculture and growing financial burden of energy subsidies. …”
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Water sector governance: a return ticket to anarchy por Wegerich, Kai, Warner, J., Tortajada, C.

“…Understanding the apparently increasing smidgeon of anarchy in the water sector includes the appreciation of the complexity of water governance developments such as the introduction of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM), Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT), basin councils, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSP), as well as the limited role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and grassroots organisations (GROs), for decades considered the ‘magic bullet’ in taking over and providing state services to the public. …”
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What shapes food value chains? Lessons from aquaculture in Asia por Jespersen, K.S., Kelling, I., Ponte, S., Kruijssen, Froukje

“…Worldwide production of aquatic resources has grown rapidly in the past few decades, and aquaculture production in Asia has played a decisive role in this growth. …”
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Screening for resistance to Fusarium wilt por Bioversity International

“…Once the pathogen is introduced into a production field, it can stay in the soil for many decades, thus spelling the end of production of susceptible cultivars in that field. …”
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Andean ‘lost grains’ in Bolivia and Peru por Gotor, Elisabetta, Martin, W.

“…Agricultural practices have changed dramatically over the last decade, and poor rural farmers are cultivating these traditional varieties less due to their poor economic competitiveness with global cereal crops, lack of improved varieties, arduous cultivation practices, difficulty of processing, lack of access to market chains and the negative image often associated with Andean grains as ‘food for the poor’. …”
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Cowpea genetics: a review of the recent literature por Fery, R., Singh, B.

“…In the decade since the literature on the genetics of cowpea was last reviewed by Fery (1985). …”
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Not by bread alone: Estimating potato demand in India in 2030 por Scott, G. J., Petsakos, Athanasios, Suarez, V.

“…While much of the literature on future food consumption in India in the decades ahead focuses on cereals, this paper presents estimates of potato demand to the year 2030 according to three different scenarios. …”
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