Resultados de búsqueda - "Ethiopia"

Wastewater treatment capacity, food production and health risk in peri-urban areas: a comparison of three cities por Rooijen, Daniel J. van, Smout, I., Drechsel, Pay, Biggs, Trent W.

“…Despite significant efforts to increase wastewater treatment, substantial volumes of untreated wastewater are applied in irrigated agriculture in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Accra (Ghana) and Hyderabad (India). Additional options for safeguarding public health are required to allow the cities to maintain the benefits from already existing, but largely informal, wastewater reuse.…”
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Incorporating gendered landscapes into physically-based models via Participatory 3-D Mapping. [Abstract only] por Baker, Tracy, Debevec, Liza, Abebe, Yenenesh, Cullen, Beth

“…A small watershed (Jeldu, Ethiopia) is used as a case study to generate gender differentiated three-dimensional landscape representations that are then georeferenced into ArcGIS. …”
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Evidence-Based Insurance Development for Nigeria’s Farmers: Briefing paper for Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD)-CCAFS Knowledge-Sharing Worksh... por Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James W., Araba D

“…Experiences from India, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Senegal suggest that there is demand for index insurance; that the bundling of insurance with key farm inputs e.g. improved seed and fertilizer, makes the insurance package more attractive to farmers; but that several challenges still to overcome, including data management, basis risk, logistical and client communication. …”
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Mejoramiento genético y actividades relacionadas. Actividades relacionadas. Africa. Africa oriental por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…This regional project covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda. CIAT's regional activities aim primarily at strengthening national capabilities to conduct research relevant to small farmers' needs. …”
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Genetic improvement and related activities. Regional activities. Africa. East Africa por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…This regional project covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda. CIAT's regional activities aim primarily at strengthening national capabilities to conduct research relevant to small farmers' needs. …”
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Breeding tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) trotter]: conventional and molecular approaches por Assefa, K., Yu, J.K., Zeid, M., Belay, G., Tefera, H., Sorrells, M.E.

“…Trotter] is an important food staple cereal crop in Ethiopia. Despite its importance in the Ethiopian agriculture, there are constraints that need to be addressed through scientific research. …”
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Use of geographic information system tools to predict animal breed suitability for different agro-ecological zones por Lozano Jaramillo, Maria, Bastiaansen, John W.M., Dessie, Tadelle, Komen, Hans

“…This methodology was tested on the current distribution of two introduced chicken breeds in Ethiopia: the Koekoek, originally from South Africa, and the Fayoumi, originally from Egypt. …”
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security - Plan of Work and Budget 2019 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…There has been an increase in activity in Ethiopia by all Flagships, given the strategic decision to shift the regional coordination office to Addis Ababa, and consequently slightly reduced core supported activities in other countries in East Africa. …”
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Estudios de quimiotaxonomía en cultivares de Coffea arabica L. por Lopes, C.R, Monaco, L.C

“…Four flavonoids were shown to occur exclusively in cuttivars selected in indigeneous coffee population of Ethiopia. The flavonoids studies reported in the present paper provided additional data about some of coffee cultivars whose origin was unkown.…”
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Technical Advisory Committee Seventy-First Meeting, 26-28 November 1996: Report of the Meeting por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Report of TAC 71, held at ILRI in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 26-28, 1996, Don Winkelmann presiding. …”
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Emerging research practice for impact in the CGIAR: The case of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) por Banerjee, Rupsha R., Hall, Andrew, Mude, Andrew G., Wandera, Brenda, Kelly, Jennifer

“…The case study presented is recent experiences at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) of developing and facilitating the adoption of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Kenya and Ethiopia. The approach of the IBLI program evolved as a form of research practice that expands the boundaries of legitimate research practices in the CGIAR: it maintained the essentials of international public goods, but also included activities engaging with innovation processes that led to tangible household impacts. …”
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Lathyrus genetic resources network: Proceedings of a IPGRI-ICARDA-ICAR Regional Working Group Meeting, 8-10 December 1997, New Delhi, India por Mathur, P.N., Ramanatha Rao, V., Arora, R.K., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The potential of Lathyrus sativus (Grass pea) as a nutritious pulse with high quality grain and fodder, is well recognized in South Asia, Ethiopia and parts of Central, West and North Asia, where other species of this genepool also occur. …”
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An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems por Senda, Trinity S., Robinson, Lance W., Gachene, C K.K, Kironchi, G., Doyo, J.

“…We used a participatory scenario-building approach to investigate alternative scenarios of land tenure recognition in southern Ethiopia where a new communal land tenure system is in the early stages of implementation. …”
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Forage performance and detection of marker trait associations with potential for Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) improvement por Habte, Ermias, Muktar, Meki S., Abdena, Asebe, Hanson, Jean, Sartie, Alieu, Negawo, Alemayehu T., Machado, J.C., Silva Ledo, F.J. da, Jones, Christopher S.

“…To enhance the genetic resource base and identify traits responsible for increased feed potential of Napier grass, forty-five genotypes from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil, were evaluated for forage biomass yield and feed nutritional quality in a replicated trial under wet and dry season conditions in Ethiopia. The results revealed significant variation in forage yield and feed nutritional qualities among the genotypes and between the wet and dry seasons. …”
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Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI): exploring potential at the global scale por Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Pavelic, Paul

“…Among the river basins with high suitability, the Awash in Ethiopia, Ramganga in India (one of the major tributaries of the Ganges River Basin) and Chao Phraya in Thailand were selected for the economic analysis in this study. …”
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Integrating climate prediction and regionalization into an agro-economic model to guide agricultural planning por Zhang, Y., You, Liangzhi, Lee, D., Block, Paul J.

“…An ex ante evaluation of seasonal precipitation prediction is assessed using an agro-economic equilibrium model to simulate Ethiopia’s national economy, accounting for interannual climate variability and prediction-guided agricultural responses. …”
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Tapping height and season affect frankincense yield and wound recovery of Boswellia papyrifera trees por Cherenet, E., Abiyu, A., Getnet, A., Sisay, K., Dejene, T.

“…Two experiments were conducted simultaneously in the lowlands of North Western Gonder Zone, Ethiopia. The first experiment aimed to understand the effect of tapping height and tree size on wound recovery and frankincense yield and the second experiment dealt with understanding the effect of tapping schedule on survival and frankincense yield of different tree diameter sizes. …”
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Nested Communities of Practice (CoP) Co-learning and sharing lessons learned to scale farmer centered restoration options in East Africa and the Sahel por Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Sinclair, Fergus L.

“…Drawing insight from work in Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya and Niger to scale land restoration across the drylands in Africa, the brief defines and describes the Nested Communities of Practice (CoPs) approach and how this project implemented these with key stakeholders (farmers, community facilitators, NGOs, government and researchers) to foster co-learning and sharing with evidence in East Africa and the Sahel. …”
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 in retail lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in Addis Ababa city: Magnitude of contamination and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern por Haile, A.F., Alonso, Silvia, Berhe, N., Atoma, T.B., Boyaka, P.N., Grace, Delia

“…The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence and pattern of antimicrobial resistance of E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A total of 390 retail lettuce samples were collected across the 10 subcities of Addis Ababa. …”
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Consultative Workshop on Integrating Climate Risk Management in Agricultural University Curricula por Belay, Berhanu, Dinku, Tufa, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Grossi, Amanda, Solomon, Dawit

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