Resultados de búsqueda - "Humanism"

Creating the data basis to adapt agricultural decision support tools to new environments, land management and climate change—A case study of the RiceAdvice App por Cotter, M., Asch, F., Abera, B.B., Chuma, B.A., Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu, Rajaona, A., Razafindrazaka, A., Saito, Kazuki, Stuerz, S.

“…Increasing demand for land to ensure human food security in the future has already impelled agricultural production into marginal areas. …”
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Whose river is it?: an assessment of livelihood and cultural water flow requirements for the Karnali Basin por Sharma, Akriti, Karki, Emma, Eriyagama, Nishadi, Shrestha, Gitta, Jeuland, Marc, Bharati, Luna

“…The term “environmental flows” refers to a combination of features, including quantity, quality, and timing of water flows required to sustainably maintain a river’s health, balancing both ecological and societal needs. Incorporating basic human livelihood and sociocultural aspects in environmental flow assessments alongside ecological concerns provides a more holistic perspective on water flow management. …”
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Multi-mycotoxin occurrence in dairy cattle and poultry feeds and feed ingredients from Machakos Town, Kenya por Kemboi, D.C., Ochieng, P.E., Antonissen, G., Croubels, S., Scippo, M.-L., Okoth, S., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Faas, J., Doupovec, B., Lindahl, Johanna F., Gathumbi, J.K.

“…Mycotoxins are common in grains in sub-Saharan Africa and negatively impact human and animal health and production. This study assessed occurrences of mycotoxins, some plant, and bacterial metabolites in 16 dairy and 27 poultry feeds, and 24 feed ingredients from Machakos town, Kenya, in February and August 2019. …”
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Veterinary epidemiology at ILRAD and ILRI, 1987–2018 por Perry, Brian D., Bett, Bernard K., Fèvre, Eric M., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Topics include scientific impacts; economic impact assessment; developmental impacts; capacity development; partnerships; impacts on human resources capacity in veterinary epidemiology; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries; impacts on ILRI's research and strategy; the introduction of veterinary epidemiology and economics at ILRAD; field studies in Kenya; tick-borne disease dynamics in eastern and southern Africa; heartwater studies in Zimbabwe; economic impact assessments of tick-borne diseases; tick and tick-borne disease distribution modelling; modelling the infection dynamics of vector-borne diseases; economic impact of trypanosomiasis; the epidemiology of resistance to trypanocides; the development of a modelling technique for evaluating control options; sustainable trypanosomiasis control in Uganda and in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia; spatial modelling of tsetse distributions; preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa; rabies research; the economic impacts of rinderpest control; applying economic impact assessment tools to foot and mouth disease (FMD) control, the southern Africa FMD economic impact study; economic impacts of FMD in Peru, Colombia and India; economic impacts of FMD control in endemic settings in low- and middle-income countries; the global FMD research alliance (GFRA); Rift Valley fever; economic impact assessment of control options and calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs); RVF risk maps for eastern Africa; land-use change and RVF infection and disease dynamics; epidemiology of gastrointestinal parasites; priorities in animal health research for poverty reduction; the Wellcome Trust Epidemiology Initiatives; the broader economic impact contributions; the responses to highly pathogenic avian influenza; the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) experience, the role of epidemiology in ILRAD and ILRI and the impacts of ILRAD and ILRI's epidemiology; capacity development in veterinary epidemiology and impact assessment; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries and impacts on ILRI's research and strategy.…”
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From the Forest to the Dish: A Comprehensive Study of the Wildmeat Value Chain in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo por Vliet, N. van, Muhindo, J., Nyumu, J.K., Nasi, R.

“…Urban consumption generates a trade of about 103–145 tons of bushmeat per year for a human population of 37,997 inhabitants. Yangambi combines all the factors for a depletion scenario: a quasi-open access system and high levels of dependency on the resource at all levels of the chain (from consumers to hunters). …”
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Tropical deforestation drivers and associated carbon emission factors derived from remote sensing data por Sy, Veronique de, Herold, M., Achard, F., Avitabile, V., Baccini, A., Carter, S., Clevers, J.G.P.W., Lindquist, E., Pereira, M., Verchot, Louis V.

“…Our study highlights that the co-location of data on forest loss, biomass and fate of the land provides more insight into the spatial dynamics of land-use change and can help in attributing carbon emissions to human activities.…”
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Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors por Zinngrebe, Y., Borasino, E., Chiputwa, Brian, Dobie, P., Garcia, E., Gassner, A., Kihumuro, P., Komarudin, Heru, Liswanti, N., Makui, P., Plieninger, T., Winter, E., Hauck, J.

“…The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated land clearing are threatening both biodiversity and human wellbeing in tropical areas. Implementing agroforestry systems through a landscape approach has a strong potential for integrating nature conservation objectives into agricultural systems. …”
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Assessment of land degradation in semi-arid Tanzania: Using remote sensing to inform the Sustainable Development Goal 15.3 por Reith, J.A.

“…It incorporates freely available datasets like Landsat and uses open-source software in interplay with cloud-computing. Human-induced LD was assessed using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) correcting it for precipitation variability with the Rain Use Efficiency (RUE). …”
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Population status of Boswellia papyrifera woodland and prioritizing its conservation interventions using multi-criteria decision model in northern Ethiopia por Gidey, T., Hagos, D., Juhar, H.M., Solomon, N., Negussie, A., Crous-Duran, J., Oliveira, T.S., Abiyu, A., Palma, J.H.

“…However, its populations are in rapid decline due to human pressure and environmental degradation. As a consequence, the species is now considered being endangered, demanding an urgent conservation intervention to sustain its existence. …”
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Selection of Different Trees/Shrubs Species for Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in Wag-Lasta Area, Northeastern Ethiopia por Kasaye, M., Abebe, G., Abiyu, A., Wondie, M., Belay, B.

“…Due to human and livestock population pressure, land degradation is the main problem in many part of Ethiopia. …”
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Edible crickets (Orthoptera) around the world: distribution, nutritional value, and other benefits - a review por Magara, H.J., Niassy, S., Ayieko, M.A., Mukundamago, M., Egonyu, J.P., Tanga, C.M., Kimathi, E.K., Ongere, J.O., Fiaboe, K., Hugel, S., Orinda, M.A., Roos, N., Ekesi, S.

“…Edible crickets are among the praised insects that are gaining recognition as human food and livestock feed with a potential of contributing to food security and reduction of malnutrition. …”
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Mycotoxin profiles of solar tent-dried and open sun-dried plantain chips por Adenitan, A.A., Awoyale, W., Akinwande, B.A., Maziya-Dixon, Busie, Michael, S.

“…Therefore, the use of a solar tent in drying plantain chips and other agricultural products is encouraged for the safety of human consumption. The outcome of this study provides useful information regarding the possible safety of plantain chips in Nigeria.…”
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Endangers Africa’s Indigenous Pygmy Populations por Fa, J.E., Nasi, R., Funk, S.M.

“…The demographic and evolutionary split between Pygmy and non-Pygmy populations is amongst the oldest for modern humans with the divergence estimated from genetic data to be roughly between 60,000 and over 100,000 years ago and the split between Western and Eastern Pygmy groups about 20,000 years ago (Hsieh et al. 2016). …”
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Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant Salmonella serovars Derby and Rissen from the pig value chain in Vietnam por González Santamarina, B., García-Soto, S., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Abdel-Glil, M.Y., Meemken, D., Fries, R., Tomaso, H.

“…Nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) is the most reported cause of bacterial foodborne zoonoses in Vietnam, and contaminated pork is one of the main sources of human infection. In recent years, the prevalence of NTS carrying multiple antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) have been increased. …”
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Increasing cassava root yield on farmers’ fields in Nigeria through appropriate weed management por Ekeleme, F., Dixon, A., Atser, G., Hauser, S., Chikoye, David, Korie, S., Olojede, A.O., Agada, M., Olorunmaiye, P.

“…Smallholder cassava farmers would require continuous training on the safe use and handling of herbicides to improve efficiency and prevent adverse effects on humans and the environment.…”
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Preleminary analysis of cause-effect on forest-peatland fires prior to 2020 in Rentral Kalimantan por Yulianti, N., Kusin, K., Murni, E., Barbara, B., Naito, D., Kozan, O., Jagau, Y., Kulu, I.P., Adji, F.F., Susetyo, K.E.

“…Further, the FGDs in seven villages showed that there were three main clusters that caused forest-land fires, namely natural factors, human factors and village policy / regulation factors. …”
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Geographic distribution of Colombian spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) via ecological niche modeling: a prediction for the main tropical forages’ pest in the Neotropics por Hernández, Luis Miguel, Espitia, Paula A., Florián, David, Castiblanco, Valheria, Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés, Gómez-Jiménez, María I.

“…Records of these species, prior to the 2000 year, were compiled from human observations, specimens from CIAT Arthropod Reference Collection (CIATARC), GBIF, and an extensive literature review. …”
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A gap analysis modeling framework to prioritize collecting for ex situ conservation of crop landraces por Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Khoury, Colin K., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Mendez Alzate, Andres Camilo, Sosa, Chrystian C., Debouck, Daniel G., Kehel, Zakaria, Guarino, Luigi

“…Aim: The conservation and effective use of crop genetic diversity is crucial to overcome challenges related to human nutrition and agricultural sustainability. …”
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Impact of foliar application of zinc and magnesium aminochelate on bean physiology and productivity in Ghana por Yeboah, Stephen, Asibuo, James, Oteng-Darko, Patricia, Adjei, Emmanuel Asamoah, Lamptey, Maxwell, Owusu Danquah, Eric, Waswa, Boaz Shaban, Butare, Louis

“…Different approaches including glycine have been used to improve mineral nutrient status of plants toward safer products and improved human health. However, limited research has been undertaken to understand the response of beans to amino Zn and Mg foliar fertilizer application in Ghana. )is study was conducted to investigate the effect of zinc, magnesium, and combined zinc and magnesium foliar fertilizer application on two improved common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) varieties locally referred to as Adoye and Nsroma in the forest (Fumesua) and forest-savannah transition (Akumadan) agro-ecological zones of Ghana during the 2018 and 2019 cropping seasons.)etreatments were arranged in split-plot design with the two improved common bean varieties as the main plot, and foliar fertilizer options (zinc, 200 g/ha; magnesium, 224 g/ha; combined zinc and magnesium, 100 g/ha Zn and 112 g/ha Mg) and water spray (control) as the subplot treatments. )e zinc and combined zinc and magnesium treatments had similar and significantly (P ≤ 0.05) higher plant height of 37.1 cm and 38.7 cm compared to the control and magnesium treatments. )e results also showed that chlorophyll content was approximately 15.6% higher in plants treated with zinc plus magnesium compared to the other treatments. …”
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Perspective: The importance of water security for ensuring food security, good nutrition, and well-being por Young, S. L., Frongillo, E. A., Jamaluddine, Z., Melgar-Quiñonez, H., Pérez Escamilla, R., Ringler, Claudia, Rosinger, A. Y.

“…Given the prevalence and severity of water issues and the many interconnections between water and nutrition, we argue that water security deserves attention commensurate with its importance to human nutrition and health. To this end, we first give a brief introduction to water insecurity and discuss its conceptualization in terms of availability, access, use, and stability. …”
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