Resultados de búsqueda - "Focusing"

Foodborne disease hazards and burden in Ethiopia: A systematic literature review, 1990–2019 por Gazu, Lina, Alonso, Silvia, Mutua, Florence K., Roesel, Kristina, Lindahl, Johanna F., Amenu, Kebede, Sousa, F.M., Ulrich, P., Guadu, T., Dione, Michel M., Ilboudo, Guy S., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Grace, Delia

“…Result: In total 128 articles met the inclusion criteria. Most articles focused on the identification of biological hazards in food. …”
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Genetic gain and G × E interaction in bread wheat cultivars representing 105 years of breeding in Pakistan por Hanif, Uzma, Gul, Alvina, Amir, Rabia, Munir, Faiza, Sorrells, Mark E., Gauch, Hugh G., Mahmood, Zahid, Subhani, Abid, Imtiaz, Muhammad, Alipour, Hadi, Rasheed, Awais, He Zhonghu

“…This dataset provided detailed insight about the performance of historical wheat cultivars and could help in devising future wheat breeding strategies to focus on the traits contributing to grain yield and have slower rate of genetic progress.…”
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Farmers’ preferences for east African highland cooking banana ’Matooke’ hybrids and local cultivars por Madalla, N., Swennen, R., Brown, A., Carpentier, Sebastien C., Bergh, I. van den, Crichton, R.J., Marimo, Pricilla, Weltzien, Eva, Massawe, C., Shimwela, M., Mbongo, D., Kindimba, Grace, Kubiriba, Jerome, Tumuhimbise, Robooni, Okurut, A.W., Cavicchioli, M., Ortíz, R.

“…The qualitative data from farmers' focus group discussions (FGDs) were described using content analysis. …”
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Translating virome analyses to support biosecurity, on-farm management, and crop breeding por Briseño, R.I.A., Batuman, O., Brawner, J., Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose, Delaquis, Erik, Etherton, B.A., French-Monar, R.D., Kreuze, Jan F., Navarrete, I., Ogero, K., Sulá, A.P., Yilmaz, S., Garrett, K.A.

“…Virome analysis via high-throughput sequencing (HTS) allows rapid and massive virus identification and diagnoses, expanding our focus from individual samples to the ecological distribution of viruses in agroecological landscapes. …”
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How relative poverty influences responses to social protection programmes: Evidence from Pakistan por Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung

“…Classical economic voting theory focuses on absolute welfare, holding that citizens reward the government for good economic outcomes and punish it for bad ones. …”
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Effects of an integrated poultry value chain, nutrition, gender and WASH intervention (SELEVER) on hygiene and child morbidity and anthropometry in Burkina Faso: A secondary outcom... por Gelli, Aulo, Collishaw, Anissa, Awonon, Josue, Becquey, Elodie, Diatta, Elodie, Diop, Loty, Ganaba, Rasmané, Headey, Derek D., Hien, Alain, Ngure, Francis, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Santacroce, Marco, Toe, Laeticia Celine, Verhoef, Hans, Alderman, Harold, Ruel, Marie T.

“…We assessed the impact of SELEVER, a nutrition- and gender-sensitive poultry intervention, with and without added WASH focus, on hygiene practices, morbidity and anthropometric indices of nutrition in children aged 2−4 years in Burkina Faso. …”
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Scaling climate-smart agriculture for accelerated agri-food systems transformation in Africa por Trautman, Sabrina, Chevallier, Romy, Cramer, Laura K., Mutamba, Manyewu

“…It also suggests key areas of focus for countries hoping to adopt, scale and finance these innovative practices. …”
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Diversity and utilization of indigenous wild edible plants and their contribution to food security in Turkana County, Kenya por Oduor, Francis Odhiambo, Kaindi, Dasel Wambua Mulwa, Abong, George Ooko, Thuita, Faith, Termote, Céline

“…Methods Applying a mixed-methods approach, we collected data using 12 gender-disaggregated focus group discussions and a questionnaire applied to a random sample of 360 households. …”
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Case studies on food waste quantification, characterization, and identification of prevention and reduction options in Colombo, Sri Lanka por Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Wickramasinghe, N., Bucatariu, C., Drechsel, Pay

“…The separation classified quantities into edible and inedible portions. The study also focused on assessing the environmental and socio impacts, based on assessed and categorized FW quantities. …”
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Cultural and economic barriers and opportunities for the participation of women in agricultural production systems: A case study in Guatemala por Hernandez, Manuel A., Alarcón, Constanza, Berrospi, Maria Lucia, Lopera, Diana Carolina, Quintero, Diana, Reyes, Byron A., Olivet, Francisco

“…We rely on a qualitative approach involving focus group discussions with 15–20 women in each of the eight communities visited in the departments of Chiquimula (Dry Corridor) and Huehuetenango (Western Highlands) in October 2022. …”
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Accuracy of satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates over Africa: a multi-scale assessment of eight products for continental applications por Mekonnen, Kirubel, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Leh, Mansoor, Akpoti, Komlavi, Owusu, Afua, Tinonetsana, Primrose, Hamouda, T., Ghansah, B., Paranamana, Thilina Prabhath, Munzimi, Y.

“…Study Region: Continental Africa Study Focus: This study evaluates the accuracy of eight gauge-corrected rainfall products across Africa through direct comparisons with in situ observations for the period 2001–2020. …”
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Status of integrated crop-livestock research in the mixed farming systems of the Global South: a scoping study por Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Chibarabada, T. P., Sikka, Alok

“…The integrated research has been focused on farm production of human food and animal feed by smallholder farmers and soil productivity. …”
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Productive, environmental, and economic shifts of dairy systems by adopting silvo-pastoral systems and improved pastures por González-Quintero, Ricardo, García, Elver H., Florez, Jesús F., Burkart, Stefan, Arango, Jacobo

“…This study aims at assessing the climate change impact of small dairy cattle farms and at identifying how the implementation of SPS and IP as sustainable cattle practices (improvement scenario -IS-) can improve milk yields, farm profitability, and reduce GHGE. The study focuses on four very small dairy farms in the Cauca Department in Colombia and uses a life cycle assessment approach to calculate the carbon footprint (CF) of milk production. …”
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Climate smart rice innovations to reduce the impact of climate change on the livelihood of value chain actors por Ndindeng, S.A., Zenna, N., Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Arouna, A., Yadav, S., Semwal, V., Ibrahim, A., Futakuchi, K., Manneh, B.

“…Post-harvest approaches have focused on reducing grain breakages, chalkiness, mycotoxin contamination, insecticide and fungicide use, deforestation and value addition to broken rice and rice milling byproducts using environmentally friendly methods. …”
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Data sharing and ontology use among agricultural genetics, genomics, and breeding databases and resources of the Agbiodata Consortium por Clarke, Jennifer L., Cooper, Laurel D., Poelchau, Monica F., Berardini, Tanya Z., Elser, Justin, Farmer, Andrew D., Ficklin, Stephen, Kumari, Sunita, Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Nelson, Rex T., Sadohara, Rie, Selby, Peter, Thessen, Anne E., Whitehead, Brandon, Sen, Taner Z.

“…Two AgBioData working groups, focused on Data Sharing and Ontologies, respectively, conducted a Consortium-wide survey to assess the current status and future needs of the members in those areas. …”
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Changes in soil organic carbon pools after 15 years of Conservation Agriculture in rice (Oryza sativa)-wheat (Triticum aestivum) cropping system of eastern Indo-Gangetic plains por Mahala, Deep Mohan, Meena, Mahesh Chand, Dwivedi, Brahma S., Datta, Siba Prasad, Dey, Abir, Das, Debarup, Parihar, Chiter Mal, Yadav, R.K., Chaudhary, Amresh, Jat, Raj Kumar, Choudhary, Kajod Mal, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Jat, Mangi L.

“…Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Samastipur, Bihar during 2021-2023 to focus on examining alterations in SOC pools resulting from conservation agriculture (CA) practices in R-W system in the eastern IGP, following the collection of soil samples from a long-term trial that was initiated in rainy (kharif) season 2006. …”
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Adaptation finance gap por Savvidou, Georgia, Canales, Nella, Haque, Nabil, Pauw, Pieter, Mbeva, Kennedy, Zamarioli, Luis

“…. ▶ In the 2017–2021 period, less than 17 per cent of commitments were dedicated to projects with a specific focus on local communities. While this is an increase from previous levels, these low levels exist despite increasing understanding of the importance of local communities’ agency and involvement in adaptation projects. ▶ In the same period, the share of grants as a proportion of the total finance for adaptation for least developed countries (LDCs) (at 52 per cent) was substantially higher than that of non-LDCs (26 per cent). …”
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Determinants of dietary diversity and drivers of food choice among low-income consumers in urban Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe por Gichohi-Wainaina, Wanjiku N., Kee-Tui, Sabine Homann, Zoethout, Manon, Talsma, Elise F., Edel, Immaculate, Hauser, Michael

“…The majority of respondents in Lilongwe (65%) reported price as the most important driver of food choice, compared to 38% in Nairobi and 42% in Bulawayo.Our observation of poor‐quality diets provides further evidence of the need for food policies that are cognisant of the nutrition and health of the growing population of the urban poor. Such policies would focus on lowering the costs of nutritious foods as well as ensuring food safety within the complex food system observed in the urban low‐income environment.…”
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Marginal abatement cost curves of climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder dairy farms in Kenya por McNicol, Louise, Caulfield, Mark E., Graham, Michael, Gibbons, James, Williams, A Prysor, Chadwick, Dave, Gakige, Jesse, Wilkes, Andreas, Kimoro, Bernard, Arndt, Claudia

“…To meet projected demand in a sustainable manner, Kenya must focus on upscaling climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices to increase productivity. …”
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High value crop products and rural prosperity: The role of operations research and analytics por Cock, James H, Jimenez, Daniel R

“…The paper argues for a shift in agricultural focus from traditional staple crops to HVCPs, highlighting their ability to generate higher income per unit of land and labor, thereby offering an effective solution to rural poverty. …”
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