Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Agriculture for improved nutrition: Seizing the momentum por Fan, Shenggen, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. …”
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How the United Kingdom benefits from investments in CGIAR research por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Thus, combating hunger calls for global collective action and it is in the United Kingdom’s (UK) national interest to continue its decades-long engagement in the global effort to reduce hunger and undernutrition.…”
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Wastewater based epidemiology as a public health resource in low- and middle-income settings por Hamilton, Katie A., Wade, M.J., Barnes, K.G., Street, R.A., Paterson, S.

“…In the face of emerging and re-emerging diseases, novel and innovative approaches to population scale surveillance are necessary for the early detection and quantification of pathogens. The last decade has seen the rapid development of wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) to address public health challenges, which has led to establishment of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approaches being deployed to monitor a range of health hazards. …”
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West Africa’s data story: The availability of actionable nutrition data por Diatta, Dieynab, Billings, Lucy, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn

“…The past decade has seen a growing global and regional momentum to prioritize nutrition and to develop actionable programs for improved nutrition and more effective food systems. …”
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Measuring the impact of agriculture programs on diets and nutrition por Leroy, Jef L., Ruel, Marie T., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Traditionally, agriculture investments focused on producing enough food to allow people to meet their caloric needs and on generating employment and income. In the last decade, the understanding of how agriculture can contribute to nutrition has shifted from the implicit assumption that increased productivity and income would automatically improve nutrition to the acknowledgement that explicit nutrition goals and actions are needed to improve nutritional outcomes (1–4). …”
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Agricultural research in Africa: Investing in future harvests por Lynam, John K., Beintema, Nienke M., Roseboom, Johannes, Badiane, Ousmane

“…Growth has accelerated in the past decade, but is unsustainable given increasing use of finite resources. …”
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Overview of extension philosophies and methods por Davis, Kristin E., Sulaiman, V. Rasheed

“…This note aims to introduce programme managers to extension philosophies and methods over the past decades. It demonstrates that each approach originated in specific circumstances, and has both merits and demerits. …”
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Supply response of smallholder households in Ethiopia por Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Smallholder farmer–focused policies, which derive from the Agricultural Development Led Industrialization (ADLI) framework, were predominant in Ethiopia over the past two decades. This includes the current Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). …”
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Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for Colombia por Boshell, Francisco, Thomas, Timothy S., Nazareth, Vijay, Cenacchi, Nicola

“…Climate change is already affecting the global economy between catastrophic losses from extreme weather events to the subtler losses in agricultural productivity. In the decades to come, the effects of climate change will increase. …”
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Does a “Blue Revolution” help the poor? Evidence from Bangladesh por Rashid, Shahidur, Minot, Nicholas, Lemma, Solomon

“…Although these estimates seem small, they represent almost 10% of the overall poverty reduction in Bangladesh during the first decade of the 21st century. Put differently, of the 18 million Bengalis who escaped poverty during 2000–2010, about 1.8 million of them managed to do so because of the rapid growth in aquaculture, which contributed to rural income while making fish more accessible to consumers.…”
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Exploring the supply and demand factors of varietal turnover in Indian wheat por Krishna, Vijesh V., Spielman, David J., Veettil, Prakashan C.

“…Analysis of cultivar adoption patterns among farmer households of Haryana State also indicates that farmers prefer cultivars that were released a decade ago over the recent ones. Cultivar turnover rates are found to be particularly low among marginal farmers. …”
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Linkages between poverty, food security and undernutrition: Evidence from China and India por de Brauw, Alan, Suryanarayana, M. H.

“…– China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, and poverty reduction has been substantial in both countries through the past few decades. Yet they have very different profiles in terms of food security and undernutrition – while at the micro-level China has performed well in terms of undernutrition, India has not. …”
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Modular ABM development in NRM for improved dissemination and training por Bell, Andrew R., Robinson, Derek, Malik, Ammar, Dewal, Snigdha

“…Agent-based models (ABM) have become an important tool for natural resource management in recent decades, and for the study of agricultural change in particular (e.g., Becu, Perez, Walker, Barreteau, & Page, 2003; Bell, 2011; Bert et al., 2010). …”
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The political economy of food price policy in Senegal por Resnick, Danielle

“…Since independence, Senegal has been highly reliant on international markets to meet its food needs, this tendency has only increased with rapid levels of urbanization in recent decades. Poor domestic cereal harvests prior to 2007 exacerbated this import-dependence during a time of high global food prices, resulting in the cost of rice sky-rocketing. …”
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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001–2011 por Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F.

“…South Asia has long been synonymous with unusually high rates of undernutrition. In the past decade, however, Nepal has arguably achieved the fastest recorded decline in child stunting in the world and has done so in the midst of civil war and post-conflict political instability. …”
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Water resources and food security por Ringler, Claudia, Zhu, Tingju

“…These projections include substantial improvements in water use efficiency at the field, farm, and river basin scale over the coming decades in response to growing water scarcity. If these efficiency improvements are not achieved, future crop water demands would be even larger. …”
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Aiding government effectiveness in developing countries por Gisselquist, Rachel M., Resnick, Danielle

“…More than a decade after becoming a buzzword on the development agenda, governance remains a high priority for the international donor community. …”
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Changing diets and the role of rural food vendors in Cambodia por Ignowski, Elizabeth, Chitnavis, Shreya, Bun, Phanna, Chroeng, Chantha, Fiorella, Kathryn

“…National data shows a decrease in the share of household expenditure on food over the past two decades, accompanied by an increase in purchased food items and food prepared away from home, indicative of a diet transformation. …”
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Zambia: Recent developments in agricultural research por Flaherty, Kathleen, Mwala, Mick S.

“…After three decades of fluctuating but overall diminishing public agricultural research and development (R&D) spending in Zambia, the downward trend of investment accelerated during 2001-08. …”
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Kenya [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] por Thurlow, James, Kiringai, Jane, Gautam, Madhur

“…However, the economy has not performed especially well over the past two decades, and evidence suggests that poverty and inequality has not declined much. …”
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