Resultados de búsqueda - "Humanism"

Effect of capacity building on production of safe and profitable leafy vegetables among farmers in Ibadan City of Nigeria por Olajide-Taiwo, L. O., Cofie, Olufunke O., Odeleye, O.M.O., Olajide-Taiwo, F. B., Olufunmi, Y., Adebayo, O.S., Alabi, O.O.

“…Due to lack of adequate training among other factors, farmers make sub-optimal profit margins and produce vegetables which are dangerous to human health due to misuse of agrochemicals. This study was embarked upon for a period of three months, to build the capacity of vegetable farmers on how to produce safe and profitable vegetables using good agricultural practices (GAP) and improved production packages with minimal use of appropriate agro-chemicals. …”
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Salt-induced land and water degradation in the Aral Sea basin: a challenge to sustainable agriculture in Central Asia por Qadir, Manzoor, Noble, A.D., Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Gupta, R.K., Yuldashev, Tulkun, Karimov, Akmal A.

“…Considering the availability of natural and human resources in the Aral Sea Basin as well as the recent research addressing soil and water management, there is cause for cautious optimism. …”
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Sink or Swim?: Water security for growth and development por Grey, D., Sadoff, Claudia W.

“…As the costs of poor countries not achieving water security, in terms of human suffering, sustained poverty, constrained growth and social unrest, would be very high, achieving water security is a challenge that must be recognized and must be met.…”
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Categorisation of dairy production systems: A strategy for targeting meaningful development of the systems in Uganda por Mubiru, S.L., Tenywa, J.S., Halberg, N., Romney, Dannie L., Nanyeenya, W., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Staal, Steven J.

“…However, this level of milk production is inadequate for the existing human population who would require 103 million metric tonnes year-1. …”
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Adoption of dual purpose forages: Some policy implications por Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Ehui, Simeon K.

“…For example, the effects of socio-economic factors such as human capital (education, age), income and access to institutions (e.g. credit and extension) have not been studied in association with the adoption of forage species. …”
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Common beans, biodiversity, and multiple stresses: challenges of drought resistance in tropical soils por Beebe, Stephen E., Rao, Idupulapati M., Jyostna Devi, Mura, Polanía Perdomo, José A.

“…Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the grain legume with the highest volume of direct human consumption in the world, and is the most important legume throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, cultivated over an area of ~4 million ha. …”
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Biofortified black beans in a maize and bean diet provide more bioavailable iron to piglets than standard black beans por Tako, E, Laparra, JM, Glahn, Raymond P., Welch, R.M., Lei, XG, Beebe, Stephen E., Miller, DD

“…We conclude that the biofortified beans are a promising vehicle for increasing intakes of bioavailable Fe in human populations that consume beans as a dietary staple.…”
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Understanding the purposes for keeping cattle and their perceived traits by farmers in Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia por Dorland, H.A. van, Ayalew, W., Tolessa, A., Rowlands, G.J., Rege, J.E.O.

“…The genetic diversity within indigenous livestock breeds of countries like Ethiopia results from the diverse ways in which these resources have been used to support human livelihoods and their ability to cop with the specific environments in which they have been kept. …”
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P-TRAP: A panicle trait phenotyping tool por Al-Tam, F., Adam, H., Anjos, A. dos, Lorieux, Mathias, Larmande, Pierre, Ghesquière, Alain, Jouannic, Stefan, Reza Shahbazkia, H

“…The software is very useful, practical and collects much more data than human operators.P-TRAP is a new open source software that automatically recognizes the structure of a panicle and the seeds on the panicle in numeric images. …”
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Sustaining linkages to high value markets through collective action in Uganda: the case of the Nyabyumba potato farmers por Kaganzi, Elly, Ferris, Shaun, Mulema, Annet A., Sanginga, Pascal C., Njuki, Jemimah, Barham, James

“…To meet the volumes, frequency of supply, and quality parameters demanded by their client, the farmers have had to learn a series of new skills and integrate multiple innovations at the technical, organizational, financial, and marketing levels, and meet many of the classical conditions associated with collective action based on empowerment through social and human capital development. This paper outlines how the use of collective action combined with strong leadership and an iterative market-led learning process have enabled a smallholder farmer's association to supply a perishable crop to a modern food outlet market with stringent quality parameters. …”
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Enhancing market orientation of smallholders: lessons from market orientation of households in selected grains in Ethiopia por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Econometric analyses show that market orientation of households is affected by factors related to household demographic characteristics, human and physical capital endowment, distance to markets, institutional support services, and village level factors of population density, agricultural labor wage and rainfall. …”
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Participation of feed industry personnel and pig farms to reduce risk of disease spread between farms por Bottoms, K., Dewey, Catherine E., Richardson, K., Poljak, Z., Carter, N.

“…Pigs can be asymptomatic carriers of the bacteria and pork products are a known source of salmonellosis in humans. Salmonella have been isolated from pigs, boots, flies, rodents, bird feces, feed, feed-ingredients, and feed trucks. …”
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Rift Valley fever decision support framework for eastern Africa por Bett, Bernard K.

“…The framework has also been aligned with the One Health principles by specifying interventions for both veterinary and human health sectors at each decision point. For the framework to be effectively operationalized, three key issues will have to be addressed: (i) a national RVF emergency fund has been established and procedures and modalities put in place to enable the fund to be made available rapidly in response to predetermined criteria, (ii) an effective communication system has been established including a clear chain of command and feedback from the Chief Veterinary/Medical Officers to field officers and communities, and (iii) that approved RVF Contingency Plans integrate the framework in their designs.…”
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Risk, knowledge and preventive measures of smallholder dairy farmers in northern Malawi with regard to zoonotic brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis por Tebug, Stanly Fon, Njunga, G.R., Chagunda, Mizeck G.G., Mapemba, J.P., Awah-Ndukum, J., Wiedemann, S.

“…General knowledge about possible transmission of diseases between humans and animals was high, although most farmers practised risk behaviours that could potentially expose the public to milk-borne zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis and bTB. …”
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Collective action and on-farm benefits of pesticide substitution: Case study on potato pest management practices in the Peruvian Highlands por Miethbauer, Thomas

“…Additionally there are serious threats to human health and the environment. Resilience of ecosystems is affected by pesticides’ effect on natural enemies of invasive pest species. …”
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Fine-mapping of a major QTL controlling angular leaf spot resistance in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) por Keller, Beat, Manzanares, Chloe, Jara, Carlos E., Lobaton, Juan David, Studer, Bruno, Raatz, Bodo

“…Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important grain legume and an essential protein source for human nutrition in developing countries. Angular leaf spot (ALS) caused by the pathogen Pseudocercospora griseola (Sacc.) …”
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Managing water resources in agriculture: opportunities from earth observation. [Abstract only]. por Amarnath, Giriraj, Sharma, Bharat R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…The extremes of variability - floods and droughts - are the primary "agents" of destruction, severe crop damage and loss of human life. According to EM-DAT (2012), about 3 billion people in more than 110 countries are affected by catastrophic flooding. …”
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Problems and prospects of farmers training centers: the case of Ada’a Woreda, East Shewa, Oromia Region por Teshome, F.M.

“…Agricultural change and development require the mobilization and development of human resource through such means as education and technical training. …”
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Occurrence of Salmonella spp. in flies and foodstuff from pork butcheries in Kampala, Uganda por Heilmann, Martin, Ndoboli, D., Roesel, Kristina, Grace, Delia, Huehn, S., Bauer, B., Clausen, Peter-Henning

“…Food-borne diseases such as salmonellosis are a major cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide, especially in the developing world due to poor sanitary conditions. …”
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Assessing and understanding food safety risk practices in Nairobi pork food system: A value chain approach por Murungi, M.K., Muinde, P., Akoko, James M., Rushton, Jonathan, Fèvre, Eric M., Domínguez Salas, Paula, Muloi, Dishon M., Häsler, Barbara, Alarcón, Pablo

“…Poor profit margins and unequal benefit distribution in the lower-end market hinder investments in infrastructure, cold chains and human capacity building and make it difficult to meet feeding and animal health costs. …”
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