Search Results - "Global South"

Power and interests in conflicts over the use of irrigation channels in an informal settlement : a Peruvian perspective by Waselikowski, Lisa

“…Rapid and informal urbanisation is a phenomenon which is changing agricultural and natural landscapes into urban areas in an unplanned manner all over the world, especially in the global south. This has many consequences one of which is tension and conflict between traditional land users and urban settlers, leading to struggles over scarce resources. …”

Really effective (for 15% of the men): Lessons in understanding and addressing user needs in climate services from Mali by Carr, Edward R., Onzere, Sheila N.

“…Climate services have long been held up as development tools with tremendous potential to reduce risk and vulnerability, and build resilience, for agrarian communities in the Global South (Dessai et al., 2009, Fröde et al., 2013, Pervin et al., 2013, USAID Global Climate Change Office, 2014). …”
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The measure of agroecology: Developing an assessment framework to capture economic, environmental and social impacts of agriculture and food systems by Wickramaratne, Chaturangi, Jones, Sarah K., Lamanna, Christine, Geck, Matthias

“…This is particularly true for frameworks developed in the Global North, which may not be applicable to the conditions present in the Global South. Therefore, there is a critical need for an AE-specific assessment framework that not only integrates key features of AE, but also encompasses the salient features of local AE endeavors.…”
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Addressing another threat to food safety: conflict by Ortega-Beltran, A., Bandyopadhyay, R.

“…Otherwise, increased production of susceptible crops in mycotoxin-prone areas may augment the already occurring negative impacts, which are severe in the global south.…”
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Climate adaptation in Kenya: Narratives and frames shaping policy and practice by Ouma, Marion

“…Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges of our time with the impact severely distressing lives and livelihoods particularly in countries of the Global South. In Kenya, climate-related disasters and extreme events have plagued the most vulnerable communities with the most affected as marginalized communities. …”
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Cultivating nutrition: a survey of viewpoints on integrating agriculture and nutrition by Levin, Carol E., Long, Jennifer, Simler, Kenneth R., Johnson-Welch, Charlotte

“…Over the past decade, donor-funded policies and programs designed to address undernutrition in the Global South have shifted away from agriculture-based strategies toward nutrient supplementation and food fortification programs. …”
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Informal irrigated vegetable value chains in urban Ghana: potential to improve food safety through changing stakeholder practices by Galibourg, David, Amankwaa, E. F., Gough, K. V., Scott, R.

“…Contaminated vegetables grown and consumed in cities of the global South have adverse public health consequences. …”
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Medium-scale livestock farms in Asia’s rapidly transforming food systems by Ebata, Ayako, Belton, Ben

“…In this article, we draw attention to the role and distinct characteristics of medium-scale monogastric livestock farms in the Global South, drawing on an empirically grounded typology of scale that incorporates three linked components: (1) Social and economic organization of production; (2) Technological choice and environmental impacts, and; (3) Food system linkages and spillovers. …”
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Socio-technical innovation bundles for dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and climate resilience: Findings from the baseline study by Jain, Harsha, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Shivhare, Richa, Nayak, Prakash Kumar, Chadha, Deepali, Johri, Yash, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Goel, Kritika, Dullo, Anandita, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…To address these challenges, the CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality (HER+ Initiative) aims to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable women in food systems across the global south. The Initiative focuses on improving outcomes in areas such as nutrition, health, food security, poverty, livelihoods, gender equality, climate adaptation, environmental health, and biodiversity.…”
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Automatic speech recognition model development report by Mganga, Nelson, Jones-Garcia, Eliot, Koo, Jawoo

“…This project builds on previous work where an earlier study sought to establish proof of concept on how speech recognition, along with natural language processing and text analysis techniques, can help to better identify farmer demands and target digital extension, particularly in the Global South. The study ultimately led to development of Longa–an automated speech recognition tool for bantu languages and the work detailed in this report aimed to extend Longa’s capabilities by improving performance of previously tested Luganda models, extending the tool’s functionality to the West African context, with a focus on the Malian Language of Bambara, as well as creating a more user-friendly interface to allow for integration and deployment in more practical settings. …”
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Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi by Slosse, Wannes, D’Haese, Marijke, Lachat, Carl, Emera, Willy Désiré

“…This study serves to highlight the critical issue of food agency, particularly among low-income consumers in the Global South, and underscores the widespread nature of this problem.…”
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Social sustainability of EU-approved voluntary schemes for biofuels: Implications for rural livelihoods by German, L., Schoneveld, George C.

“…The absence of social sustainability provisions in several schemes, the limited scope of most other schemes and procedural rules providing compliance loopholes point to the urgent need to expand the scope of EU RED to safeguard rural livelihoods in the global South.…”
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Contemporary processes of largescale land acquisition by investors: Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa by German, L., Schoneveld, George C., Mwangi, E.

“…Rapid growth of emerging economies, emerging interest in biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels and recent volatility in commodity prices have led to a marked increase in the pace and scale of foreign and domestic investment in landbased enterprises in the global South. Emerging evidence of the negative social and environmental effects of these large-scale land transfers and growing concern from civil society have placed ‘global land grabs’ firmly on the map of global land use change and public discourse. …”
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos by Miles, K.-L., Suhardiman, Diana, Dwyer, M.B.

“…Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. …”
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Metabolomic profiling of forages to identify anti-methanogenic compounds targeting enteric methane for sustainable livestock systems by Clavijo-Buriticá, Diana Carolina, Vélez, Gabriel, Chaura, Juliana, Riccio, Camila, Lara, Gustavo, Villegas, Julián, Marin Gomez, Alejandra, Makkar, Harinder, Arango, Jacobo, Jaramillo-Botero, Andrés

“…This study, conducted as part of the Anti-Methanogenic Feedstock for Livestock Systems in the Global South project led by CIAT, aims to identify anti-methanogenic compounds (AMCs) in forages using an integrative metabolomics approach combined with in vitro CH₄ production assays. …”
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In vitro screening for low methane forages and their in vivo evaluation: approaches and pathways by Marin Gomez, Alejandra, Makkar, Harinder, El-Dine Hilali, Muhi, Hatew, Bayissa, Wamatu, Jane, Asmare, Yonas, Wenzl, Peter, Gonzalez, Juan Jose, Molina, Isabel, Mazabel, Johanna, Muetzel, Stefan, Jaramillo-Botero, Andrés, Clavijo, Carolina, Arango, Jacobo

“…Reducing methane (CH₄) emissions from livestock systems is critical for mitigating climate change, especially in the Global South, where enteric CH₄ accounts for a significant proportion of livestock-related emissions. …”
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar by Suhardiman, Diana, Kenney-Lazar, M., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and systemic land grabbing. …”
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Assessing the ability of Sentinel-2 derived vegetation indices to explain inter-field yield variation in the context of index insurance - A case study of paddy rice inHaryana and O... by Pedersen, Nicolai Bloch, Østergaard, Kristian Wille

“…Smallholder agriculture in the Global South is characterised by high degree of risk, which disincentivises investment in productivity gains and limits rural development. …”
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Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society by Colfer, C.J.P., Prabhu, R., Larson, A.M.

“…The volume presents detailed case studies and real life examples from across the globe, promoting and prioritizing the voices of women and scholars and practitioners from the Global South who are often under-represented. Providing concrete examples of ways that a bottom-up approach can function to enhance development sustainably, via its practitioners and far beyond the locale in which they initially worked, this volume demonstrates the lasting utility of approaches like Adaptive Collaborative Management that emphasize local control, inclusiveness and local creativity in management. …”
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The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale by Villarino, Maria Eliza J., Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos

“…Now the question is: Which CGIAR innovations can be further scaled to achieve our goal while also continuing to contribute toward their initial aims of helping to reduce hunger and ensuring that people in the Global South have access to affordable and nutritious food? …”
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