Resultados de búsqueda - "Humanism"

Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Research Brief por Pul, Hippolyt, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Konde, Bernard B., Zogho, Donatus, Kuuchille, Emmanuel V., McCarthy, Nancy, Marivoet, Wim

“…The World Food Programme (WFP) supports communities to mitigate the impact of and build resilience to natural and human-made shocks and stressors that contribute to food insecurity and destabilize people’s livelihoods. …”
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High Resolution Genome Wide Association Studies Reveal Rich Genetic Architectures of Grain Zinc and Iron in Common Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) por Jingyang Tong, Cong Zhao, Mengjing Sun, Luping Fu, Jie Song, Dan Liu, Yelun Zhang, Jianmin Zheng, Zongjun Pu, Lianzheng Liu, Rasheed, Awais, Ming Li, Xianchun Xia, He Zhonghu, Yuanfeng Hao

“…Biofortification is a sustainable strategy to alleviate micronutrient deficiency in humans. It is necessary to improve grain zinc (GZnC) and iron concentrations (GFeC) in wheat based on genetic knowledge. …”
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Challenges to joint planning, monitoring, and evaluation for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Ethiopia: an exploratory qualitative study por Bezabih, A.M., Kahsay, Z.H., Kahsay, A., Bekele, A., Seid, O., Asfaw, S., Gebrearegay, F., Tadesse, K., Bazzano, A.N., Jogo, W., Covic, Namukolo M., Busse, H.

“…Conclusions and recommendations Gaps in human and technical resources, limited attention from different sectors, and absence of routine monitoring data hindered joint planning, monitoring, and evaluation activities for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Ethiopia. …”
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Athi Kapiti landscape game count report conducted on 4th June 2023 por Lumumba, E., Pruiksma, M.

“…The count aimed at establishing the current wildlife population and spatial distribution in the Athi Kapiti landscape following concerns raised by landowners of declined wildlife populations in the area after a severe drought and increased human activities. Subsequent counts will help in identifying wildlife trends and possible impacts of the expanding and continuous anthropogenic activities that peril wildlife existence in the landscape. …”
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Surveillance of climate-sensitive zoonotic diseases: Leptospirosis at livestock slaughterhouses in three regions of Uganda por Alinaitwe, Lordrick, Wainaina, Martin, Roesel, Kristina, Kankya, C., Dürr, S., Richter, M., Cook, Elizabeth A.J., Mayer-Scholl, Anne

“…Leptospirosis is an important bacterial zoonosis worldwide and is disproportionately associated with low-income settings and with extreme weather events due to climate change. Transmission to humans often occurs when infected rodents and domestic animals contaminate the environment via urine as the bacteria preferentially colonise kidneys. …”
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Exploiting Indian landraces to develop biofortified grain sorghum with high protein and minerals por Venkata, Nagesh Kumar Mallela, Vittal, Ramya, Setaboyine, Maheshwaramma, Kuyyamudi, Ganapathy N., Govindaraj, Mahalingam, Kosnam, Kavitha, Kalisetti, Vanisree

“…However, the nutrient composition of modern cultivars is declining thus necessitating genetic biofortification of sorghum to combat malnutrition and improve nutritional balance in the human diet. Keeping this in view, efforts were made to utilize valuable alleles, associated with nutrient composition, that might have been left behind in the varietal development in sorghum. …”
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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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Genome wide association analysis for grain micronutrients and anti-nutritional traits in mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek] using SNP markers por Kumar Sinha, Mayank, Aski, Muraleedhar, Mishra, Gyan Prakash, Kumar, M. B. Arun, Yadav, Prachi, P. Tokas, Jayanti, Gupta, Sanjeev, Pratap, Aditya, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar, Nair, Ramakrishnan, Schafleitner, Roland, Dikshit, Harsh

“…Mungbean is an important food grain legume for human nutrition and nutritional food due to its nutrient-dense seed, liked palatability, and high digestibility. …”
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Risk factors for diarrheagenic Escherichia coli infection in children aged 6-24 months in peri-urban community, Nairobi, Kenya por Okumu, Noah, Ngeranwa, J.J.N., Muloi, Dishon, Ochieng, Linnet, Moodley, Arshnee, Mutisya, Christine, Kiarie, Alice, Wasonga, Joseph, Watson, J., Amon-Tanoh, M.A., Cumming, O., Cook, Elizabeth A.J.

“…Escherichia coli commonly inhabits the gut of humans and animals as part of their microbiota. Though mostly innocuous, some strains have virulence markers that make them pathogenic. …”
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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

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Key lessons on the change processes that drive agroecological transitions in Zimbabwe por Voss, Rachel C., Zingwena, Taurai, Chimonyo, Vimbayi G. P.

“…Many regions boast high levels of biodiversity and an abundance of wildlife, including tourist-attracting megafauna that, while revenue-generating, often contribute to human-wildlife conflict and heightened tensions between agro-pastoralists and conservation efforts (Baudron et al., 2022). …”
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Spatio-temporal variability of streamflow in major and medium rivers of Nepal por Aryal, Anil, Shrestha, M., Aryal, S., Upadhyay, S., Maharjan, M.

“…With continuity in the development activities, it is imperative to analyze the potential impact of human activities in the hydrologic regimes. For this, we used a set of 33 indicators from the indicator of hydrologic alteration (IHA) developed by The Nature Conservancy for the pre and post-impact period. …”
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Global methane pledge in Tajikistan: Assessment report por Malec, Karel, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Tohirzoda, Sino

“…However, the agency needs additional human and financial resources to support the collection of climate data and the development of indicators to monitor progress and to support sound policy decisions.…”
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Current trends in River Bathymetry using UAV-borne technology to inform E-flow assessments in Southern Africa por Singh, K.

“…Environmental flow (E-flow) management is a crucial approach that quantifies water requirements for maintaining ecological integrity, aiming to balance human and environmental water needs. Including Eflows in management helps to ensure sustainability of water resources River bathymetry is a core part of E-flow assessments. …”
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Food system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation por Benfica, Rui, Chambers, Judith A., Koo, Jawoo, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Stads, Gert-Jan, Arndt, Channing

“…At the national level, countries need to invest in science-based participatory approaches to identify and adapt technologies to local conditions; close regulatory gaps through evidence-based frameworks that enable the rapid development, deployment, and safe use of innovations; close institutional and human capacity gaps by addressing limitations in institutional capacities and coordination, while training a new generation of scientists with the skills needed to develop and deliver innovations; develop an understanding of political economy factors for a nuanced knowledge of actors’ agendas to better inform communications and address technology hesitancy; close digital infrastructure gaps in rural areas by promoting simultaneous investments in digital infrastructure and electrification, reducing data costs, and improving digital literacy; and develop sustainable business models for digital service providers to help them achieve profitability, interoperability, and scale to reach a sustainable critical mass, and thus facilitate the adoption of food system innovations.…”
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Restoring degraded landscapes and sustaining livelihoods: sustainability assessment (cum-review) of integrated landscape management in Sub-Saharan Africa por Zemadim, Birhanu, Desta, G., Cofie, Olufunke O., Tilahun, Seifu A., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…For this, the sustainable intensification assessment framework (SIAF) was used, encompassing five domains, namely productivity, economic, environmental, social, and human condition, and featuring scales from plot to landscape, all facilitated by simplified yet robust indicators such as yield, soil loss, net income, land access, and food availability. …”
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Effects of dose and duration of zinc interventions on risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis por Pompano, Laura M., Boy, Erick

“…The PubMed and Cochrane Review databases were searched through January 2020 for full-text, human studies providing zinc supplements (alone) at doses ≤75 mg/d and a placebo. …”
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Understanding implementation and improving nutrition interventions: Barriers and facilitators of using data strategically to inform the implementation of maternal nutrition in Utta... por Young, Melissa F., Bootwala, Ahad, Kachwaha, Shivani, Avula, Rasmi, Ghosh, Sebanti, Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Shastri, Vishal Dev, Forissier, Thomas, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Barriers to data collection and use included human resource gaps, inadequate technology infrastructure, FLW education level, political structure and lack of cooperation between FLWs and supervisors. …”
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Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: A longitudinal multi-level analysis por Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Avula, Rasmi, Menon, Purnima, Fernald, Lia, Walker, Dilys, Patil, Sumeet

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Baseline Evaluation of the Impact of E-Verification on Counterfeit Agricultural Inputs and Technology Adoption in Uganda por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Counterfeit products range from benign fake or adulterated materials to banned substances that are harmful to crops and human health. Counterfeit agricultural inputs directly reduce productivity and, together with the perception of widespread counterfeiting, reduce demand for high-quality inputs. …”
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