Resultados de búsqueda - "Green Revolution"

Fertilizer microdosing and "warrantage" or inventory credit system to improve food security and farmers' income in west Africa por Tabo, Ramadjita, Bationo, B. André, Amadou, B., Marchal, D, Lompo, F., Gandah, M., Hassane, O, Diallo, M.K., Ndjeunga, J, Fatondji, D., Gerard, Bruno G., Sogodogo, D., Taonda, J.B.S., Sako, K., Boubacar, S, Abdou, A, Koala, Saidou

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Income, food security, nutrients and labour: a comparison of key aspects of african smallholder farming systems using IMPACT por Karanja, S., Herrero, Mario, Ridder, N.A. de, Baijukya, Frederick P., Mwale, M, Kaizzi, CK, Mapfumo, Paul, Watat, C, Issaka, R., Sanogo, O.M., Kungu, J., Mugendi, DN, Quirós, Carlos F., Tittonell, Pablo A., González Estrada, E., Giller, Kenneth E.

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Fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition with neglected and underutilized species: needs, challenges and the way forward por Padulosi, S., Bioversity International, Thompson, J., Rudebjer, P.G.

“…NUS have an important role to play in advancing agricultural development beyond the Green Revolution model of improving and raising the yields of staple crops.…”
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The quiet revolution and emerging modern revolution in agri-food processing in Sub-Saharan Africa por Reardon, Thomas, Awosuke, Titus, Haggblade, Steven, Minten, Bart, Vos, Rob

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Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India por Balasubramanya, Soumya, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte

“…Groundwater-based irrigation was an enabling factor for the Green Revolution, which has increased food security and reduced poverty; but with abstraction exceeding recharge, 28% of administrative blocks in India have aquifers classified as over-exploited, critical, or semi-critical (Mukherjee 2018). …”
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Agricultural technology potential for rice in Bangladesh por Xie, Hua, Cenacchi, Nicola, Ringler, Claudia

“…Production in Bangladesh increased rapidly during the 1960s to 1990s as a result of Green Revolution technologies fueled by short-duration varieties, irrigation, and fertilizers. …”
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Enhancing nutrition and ending poverty: IFPRI and India por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IFPRI’S PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA BEGAN MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO, IN THE WAKE OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION. Over the last four decades, IFPRI’s research in India has addressed the most pressing issues of the times. …”
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Food policy in a complex, changing world: Event synopsis por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…It helped explode the myth that the Green Revolution technologies benefited only large-scale farmers and showed that agricultural growth has powerful spillover effects. …”
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The changing landscape of Indian agriculture por Gulati, Ashok, Ganguly, Kavery

“…Of course, the public sector played a pivotal and catalytic role when India ushered in the Green Revolution in late 1960s and early 1970s. The public sector imported new seeds, organized their distribution and demonstration, and provided price and market support, all “not‐for‐profit.” …”
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Technological change and price effects in agriculture: conceptual and comparative perspectives por Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Barrett, Christopher B., Dorosh, Paul A.

“…While these issues are not unique throughout history, the advent of biological and chemical technologies that are both divisible and scale-neutral and the experiences referred to as the Green Revolution in the latter-half of the twentieth century throughout much of Asia have fostered a lively and long debate on the growth and particularly the distributional consequences of technological change in the agriculture of developing countries. …”
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Transforming the rural Asian economy: the unfinished revolution por Rosegrant, Mark W., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Improvements in food security, poverty reduction, and per capita income initiated by the Green Revolution have been substantial and lasting. Although life has improved for most rural Asians, about 670 million still live in poverty, and they must tolerate lower levels of health, education, and general well-being than their urban counterparts. …”
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Sociopolitical effects of new biotechnologies in developing countries por Leisinger, Klaus M.

“…However, biotechnology is now evoking the same objections that have been raised against the Green Revolution--that its benefits are distributed inequitably in favor of the large, rich farmers and that it is potentially environmentally destructive. …”
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Sociopolitical effects of new biotechnologies in developing countries por Leisinger, Klaus M.

“…However, biotechnology is now evoking the same objections that have been raised against the Green Revolution--that its benefits are distributed inequitably in favor of the large, rich farmers and that it is potentially environmentally destructive. …”
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Agricultural R&D capacity and investments in the Asia–Pacific region por Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…Science and technology (S&T) are major contributors to food security, poverty reduction, and economic growth, as has been proven in Asia since the early-1970s through the Green Revolution in agriculture. Continuing to secure such gains, however, is becoming an increasingly complex undertaking. …”
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Responding to the Global Food Crisis - Three perspectives: IFPRI 2007-2008 Annual Report Essay por von Braun, Joachim, Sheeran, Josette, Ngongi, Namanga

“…The three essays here by Namanga Ngongi, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme, and Joachim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, respond to these critical questions. …”
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Income and equity effects of crop productivity growth under alternative foreign trade regimes: a CGE analysis for the Philippines por Bautista, Romeo M., Robinson, Sherman

“…Based on counterfactual simulations using a multi-sector, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Philippine economy, this paper investigates quantitatively the economywide income and equity effects of crop productivity growh during the "green revolution period" 1965-80 under alternative trade policies. …”
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Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia?s irrigation help? por Mukherji, Aditi, Facon, T., David, S., Chartres, Colin J.

“…Irrigation has always played a central role in the agrarian economy of Asia, from supporting famed hydraulic civilizations in the ancient past to spearheading Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s,. Asia accounts for 70% of the world?…”
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The challenges on out-scaling participatory methods in agricultural research por Aw-Hassan, Aden A.

“…Resource-poor households in the dry and marginalized areas who face complex biophysical and socioeconomic constraints have benefited less from the agricultural research successes, which led to the green revolution, compared to the farmers in well endowed environments. …”
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Report of the Center Directors Committee to CGIAR International Centers Week 2000 por CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…The Inter Center Working Group on Climate Change (ICW-CC) reported significant positive impacts of the green revolution on carbon sequestration, and discussed center projects for adaptation and mitigation measures linked with poverty reduction. …”
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